that makes sense

federation between kbin.social and my instance lemmy.sdf.org seems to be awful and I couldn’t tell where the breakdown was occurring because the issue is intermittent/partial federation

I’m not a web developer so I can’t really say what solutions are best, but I have faith there are people smarter than me working on robust solutions

I haven’t looked at the specs but it is similar to UDP vs TCP?

quoting posts unlike Mastodon

what happens when a Firefish user quotes a post and it federates to Mastodon? Is the quote lost?

cool I’ll check them out, thanks!

I completely stopped using reddit but that old.reddit.com interface is still the best imo

most themes look like from early 2000’s

I thought that was a major selling point 😭

I’m assuming you’d need an account specifically on endlesstalk.org to use these frontend?

I’m already moderating a few communities so completely migrating to a new instance is probably not worth it for me (and I’d prefer to keep my sdf.org connections)

I’d love it if these alternative sites could use a login from a different instance somehow, basically operating in the same way a mobile app does

there are definitely federation issues with kbin.social

I’m on lemmy.sdf.org and my subscriptions to kbin magazines are extremely flaky and sometimes don’t work at all

I’ve tried posting about it on both my lemmy community and kbinmeta on kbin.social but never got much traction on why federation is hit-or-miss

r/reddit.com

man that brought back some memories, I remember when they shut that sub down and now I’m sad again

hey its like our own little MTV Unplugged session :D

interesting, maybe I’ll have to dig around the ActivityPub documentation to see how data is formatted

I posted a link to Lemmy (from Lemmy) and now I’m viewing the post from Mastodon to see if I can determine how the data flows

the link appears directly in the Mastodon post view but the text I entered on the Lemmy post didn’t show up in Mastodon

maybe this would work as a linked post from Mastodon to Lemmy?:

TitleOfPost
some-link-to-an-external-url
@communityname@lemmyinstance

but that may just create a text post with the link as the ‘text’

I guess I need to try it out with a test post or in a test community so I’m not spamming anyone with my testing :)

is there a specific type of content you want? you can try following ‘groups’ instead of hashtags

the benefit of groups over hashtags is that you see posts from profiles that have not yet federated with your specific server since the group itself boots anything that is posted to it, so you can sometimes see things that hashtags miss

here is a website explaining it a bit more:
https://a.gup.pe/

to follow a group simply put whatever you want to follow before @a.gup.pe like so:
[email protected]

Name will essentially be the text after the c/ in the URL
Display Name allows extra text and will show when people browse using the Communities tab. Text in the Display Name is also searchable

example: I made a community called ‘retronet’
that is the Name, which corresponds to this url: https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/retronet

the Display Name is ‘retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software’, which is what people see in the Community browser

I imagine “you” can’t

you’d likely have to work for some marketing agency and can probably only buy user data in bulk amounts (based on region, or some other desired demographic) with a recurring business plan of course

it wouldn’t be financially beneficial for these companies to sell an individual thumbprint