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How is Lemmy-mastodon interoperability, and what can/should be done to improve it? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 days ago by Unknown1234_5 to c/asklemmy

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Basically just what the title says, how well do they work together/interact with each other and how can it be improved?

I don't like microblog-style social media, but there are some people and/or organizations that I'd like to follow (for example, Nick from the Linux experiment). To my knowledge, I pretty much just have to keep mastodon around to see microblog content. I'd really rather just follow the few people I want to from here and otherwise maintain the current functionality of Lemmy.

One option could be to have a client that uses both platforms together, but I think that would just be clunky (like the title of this post, sorry about that). Another would be to add the ability to follow people into Lemmy, but I think that may mess up how Lemmy is intended to work. The last option I've been able to come up with is turning a mastodon user into a community, kind of like the reverse of what mastodon does to Lemmy communities.

I know a lot of people probably don't want microblog-style functionality on Lemmy (I'm one of them for the most part) but I think the entire concept of the fediverse is kind of a moot point if the various different platforms can't actually interact properly. Right now, it seems like mastodon is the only one that really talks to other platforms the way they're all supposed to. I'd really like to be able to access all of the fediverse's content from right here on Lemmy, because it is my favorite fediverse platform and part of the point of the fediverse is to only need one platform for all of the content.

Let me know what y'all think about the current state of interoperability between Lemmy and mastodon (or just fedi platforms in general) and what can and/or should be done to improve it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's the major thing I hate about Mastodon, where threaded comments include every user in the chain. It reads so terribly and just messes up everything. The server knows which comment is nested with other comments, and the UI shows this. The only thing they're useful for is notifications, and even that seems like a solved problem on the server side to handle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't Twitter hide the usernames of people in the thread but still notify them? I thought it had some quality of life tweak that made conversations a bit easier to read.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not sure, but I guess this could be handled entirely client side, but then creates bad experiences across different platforms. I'm not sure what happens now on Mastadon if someone replies to your note and doesn't @ mention you? As someone coming from Reddit, I think they way Lemmy handles nested conversations and notifications makes more sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Agreed. For Lemmy content, Lemmy's UI is perfectly cromulent.