Really happy to see Mbin progress, it’s definitely a nice alternative to Lemmy!

Except from SJW and LW who are still on 0.18.5

Exactly.

Which is why it makes sense to distinguish platforms that are completely compatible (Lemmy and Kbin, or Mastodon with Misskey), compared to existing but lackluster compatibility (Lemmy and Mastodon)

Thank you for sharing!

You can’t follow a Mastodon account from Lemmy.

Those two types of platforms are different, even if they both use ActivityPub, and calling them Threadiverse and Microblogverse (or whatever that name would be) seems fair

Indeed, but I was talking about personal accounts, not groups.

That’s how both kind of platforms mostly differ

Thank you for this

but then we should also start referring to Mastodon and similar projects as the “Tootiverse”.

I’ve seen Mastoverse used a few times to describe Mastodon, Misskey and it’s forks, and that part of Kbin. I guess as more and more comparison will emerge between the Threadiverse and the microblogging part of the Fediverse, a new name will emerge, and ideally platform neutral

How can a user on Lemmy follow an account on Mastodon ?

Mastodon accounts can follow Lemmy communities, but the opposite is not true.

That’s why people talk about the Threadiverse. Lemmy, Kbin, Piefed, Lotide use the same presentation and logic (threads).

Mastodon can technically interact with some of the Lemmy content, but it is limited as I stated above.

There is no link summarizing the whole thing, but if you browse the meta communities of a few instances and look for threads in December, you should see people complaining about federation being broken.

One good example is !europe@feddit.de that wasn’t federated for a few weeks

How can people on Lemmy follow Mastodon accounts?

Feel free, I might have a few other comments along those lines somewhere!

endless forking situation like with Misskey

As ironic as it seems, I would be happy to see this as it would mean Lemmy has enough devs so that different forks can be worked on at the same time

Here you go: https://piefed.social/

One of their cool features is topics, such as this one that should interest you: https://piefed.social/topic/arts-craft

The mirror bots were meant to solve one side of this, I’m just missing a good, easy, censorship resistant way to make the bridges.

The fact that they work is quite impressive. I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but the work you did is something.

Thank you for what you are doing, it’s great!

I kind of agree that Lemmy is still too rough around the edges. Sublinks, piefed.social and Mbin seem to progress fast, hopefully one of those can emerge as a better alternative

and reddit seems openly hostile to ‘reddit alternatives’

Some mods are too. I talk about Lemmy in one of the subs I know, but I keep it low profile and make sure to still comment outside of talking about it to avoid being categorized as spammer

The one thing you’re missing is a REASON for people to migrate to Lemmy.

Actively developped, ad-free mobile clients.

I know everyone on Reddit uses the Revanced Sync or Boost, hopefully at some point they won’t work due to technical changes and the awfulness of the Reddit app will lead people here

Lemmy likes to emphasize that you should register for smaller instances and not with larger ones. This “spreads out the load”.

As usually, there’s a bit of information to add to that advice: join one of the top 20 instances, just not the biggest one.

I agree it can be confusing.

As someone else commented, they could work as tags that communities could apply to themselves