Kierunkowy74@kbin.social

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  • For interaction with different platforma it’s probably called interoperability. For its current state:

    • Much of other platforma interoperate with Mastodon, but only at Mastodon’s lowest common denominator of “tweets” and links with lead. Lemmy communities are treated like “bots” reblogging anything posted to it,
    • Almost any of not-vanilla-Mastodon allow Markdown formatting and Mastodon will show it normally. The same with posts over default 500 chars limit. You can read posts longer than you are able to write,
    • Pixelfed deliberately narrows this denominator only to posts with images. However it allows posts with more than 4 images, but only not-vanilla-Mastodon instances will be able to see all of them. Posts can be geotagged, but AFAIK only Vernissage, Friendica and FediHood are able to swe these,
    • Mastodon users can tag a Lemmy community to post to it. However you can not mod a comm from there,
    • MBin allows to interact with content both from microblogging like Mastodon and with Lemmy. Lemmy interoperation is full, one with Mastodon lacks e.g. polls. Blog posts from WriteFreely and federated WordPress are shown in full. Unfortunately MBin does not work with Ghost,
    • PieFed embraces and extends the format of Lemmy with e.g. flairs and polls. It also includes the best PeerTube compatibility among the Threadiverse (as federated reddit clones may be called). It has recently included events and support of following users from microblogs like Mastodon.






  • Flooding “Lemmy” with reposts from Reddit will make “Lemmy” look like a “tardy clone of Reddit with less discussion”. Why stick with a repost platform if you can get the same content but more and earlier with Reddit? New Reddit frontend still remains browsable without login (maybe with some irritation, but anyway).

    One has to act differently. To get to the sources first (or, at least before Reddit, at least sometimes). RSS feeds of publications (already worked on in PieFed), microblogging support: compatibility with Mastodon (available on MBin and now on PieFed), already existing bot comms reposting from Hacker News and Lobste.rs (both these sites have no subs and crossposting to a comm may have sense…), reposting e.g. art from Mastodon, Bluesky, cara.app…



  • Many of these probably need some custom software features but they should not break compatibility with existing fediverse that much. Here, one can make a platform fully dedicated to sport(s), yet fully compatible with other parts of 'verse.

    • Let users set their followed disciplines, teams, and maybe even announce it? Groups for fans of specific side?
    • More seamless live-posting during events. Events are already used by e.g. Mobilizon and PieFed and one could from event page come to a prepared live feed (input box already prepopulated with appropriate hashtags as they tend to be predictable, /kbin-style attributing federated posts via tags to these feeds, etc.).
    • “Fan’s treasure” or „skarb kibica”, like it’s called in Poland. All must have information on the season’s athletes, teams and pitches/tracks/whatever. Here, it could be done via wiki.
    • Leverage of APIs (many of which are free) for showing results, etc.
    • Integration with external video platforms. I doubt, that big sport is going to be broadcast via PeerTube or Owncast, but even some high profile events are available on e.g. YouTube. During every year’s 24 heures du Mans, several racing teams set up live streams from their cars for publicity. If users could watch these streams (and switch between them) and comment events on the track via our federated site’s account, this could even work, at least for this kind of event?

    Live event posting should be compatible more with microblogging, Lemmy-like discussion works more for periods between or just after the match.


  • Mastodon excels in updates. If a niche is alive on Mastodon, then you will get news from it before Lemmy. Especially in infosec, or (if you are from Europe, especially from Germany or the Netherlands) local news.
    In a way, shitposting is also freer on microblogging, without Threadiverse’s pigeonholing into different magazines/communities

    The discussion may have worse UX. Only selected alternative frontends (like phanpy.social) have got nested threads like here and until recently, replies were delivered only to replier’s follower instances, resulting with users not seeing all the discussion and inconsistent threads between instances.