Is there a way to bring them all together? Even within one service, like Mastodon or Lemmy, my experience is that you eventually hit the wall of “oh that topic is on another instance” and you can’t simply get all the topics you want to follow in one feed. Federated means “held together,” or “unified,” right? But I must be using it wrong or missing something huge because the end experience seems mainly characterized by fragmentation.
That’s the fun part. You can subscribe to the content on another instance from your “home” instance. Right now I’m subscribed to feeds from possumpat.io, lemmy.ml, and more, and they all show up in my feed on my kbin.social home page. Even this post is on feddit.de, and I’m using my kbin account to reply.
They’re already connected. It looks like you posted this comment on kbin, but I’m reading and replying on a Lemmy instance because I have subscribed to some kbin communities (or magazines) from this Lemmy instance. And you can do the same in reverse, subscribing to Lemmy communities from kbin.
I do find the connection between kbin and Lemmy instances seems a bit unpredictable compared to the connections between different Lemmy instances. Sometimes comments show up on kbin but not Lemmy, and sometimes the other way round. Maybe the synchronization is just slower and they’ll show up eventually.
I feel a big advantage to NOT bringing them all together into one service is multiple leadership groups, so that if one becomes fascist it’s easy for people to simply move to another. Certainly as a long time redditor when reddit started its fascist garbage I kinda freaked out. I didn’t know where to go to get my “fix”. Now I still get the variety (and more every day), and if the devs for my primary group get power hungry I know some options.
Is there a way to bring them all together? Even within one service, like Mastodon or Lemmy, my experience is that you eventually hit the wall of “oh that topic is on another instance” and you can’t simply get all the topics you want to follow in one feed. Federated means “held together,” or “unified,” right? But I must be using it wrong or missing something huge because the end experience seems mainly characterized by fragmentation.
That’s the fun part. You can subscribe to the content on another instance from your “home” instance. Right now I’m subscribed to feeds from possumpat.io, lemmy.ml, and more, and they all show up in my feed on my kbin.social home page. Even this post is on feddit.de, and I’m using my kbin account to reply.
They’re already connected. It looks like you posted this comment on kbin, but I’m reading and replying on a Lemmy instance because I have subscribed to some kbin communities (or magazines) from this Lemmy instance. And you can do the same in reverse, subscribing to Lemmy communities from kbin.
I do find the connection between kbin and Lemmy instances seems a bit unpredictable compared to the connections between different Lemmy instances. Sometimes comments show up on kbin but not Lemmy, and sometimes the other way round. Maybe the synchronization is just slower and they’ll show up eventually.
I feel a big advantage to NOT bringing them all together into one service is multiple leadership groups, so that if one becomes fascist it’s easy for people to simply move to another. Certainly as a long time redditor when reddit started its fascist garbage I kinda freaked out. I didn’t know where to go to get my “fix”. Now I still get the variety (and more every day), and if the devs for my primary group get power hungry I know some options.