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The ability for Fediverse apps to interact with each other is the least interesting/useful feature of the Fediverse. (self.unpopularopinion)

submitted 7 months ago by Takeshidude to c/unpopularopinion

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I really couldn't care less if I can follow a Lemmy community with my Mastodon account or comment on a PeerTube video with my Lemmy account.

Don't get me wrong, it's neat and a cool achievement of the ActivityPub protocol, but that's like advertising that your awesome new solar-powered, self-driving, flying car also has power windows. I'm glad it's there, but there are way better things to talk about, especially when trying to convince a newcomer to jump on board.

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[–] nottelling 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It just seems like cross-posting with more confusing terms for normal people.

What I'd really like is one single sign-on for everything that was federated to my original Fediverse service instance. I should be able to just go to some Pixelfed/Mastodon/Lemmy/etc instance, log in with @[email protected] and I'm just magically makes me a user there. (Assuming instance permissions and federation settings and such, of course.)

I get it, account management and implied trust is hard to do. But that's what this feature should be.

[–] Takeshidude 2 points 7 months ago

That’s definitely easier to understand and smoother to use IMO

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Sure.

But if you were a Misskey user, you'd appreciate being able to interact with Mastodon posts. Or if you were a Kbin user, you'd want to interact with Lemmy posts.

[–] glimse 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hate the Mastodon/similar integration for posts. Hashtag filled garbage most of the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The Mastodon posts are nearly always higher quality and more on topic than posts from lemmy users.

[–] glimse 1 points 7 months ago

At the very least, simply mentioning a community shouldn't result in a post here. There is no shortage of "Just installed @[software]!" posts with absolutely nothing of value.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Only because it's mostly broken. In a world where these features are fully functional, this is absolutely a killer feature. Lemmy has particularly bad support among the broader fediverse and that's certainly impacting how much of it you see.

[–] Glitchington 2 points 7 months ago

At the end of the day these platforms do one thing, deliver content. Ideally with proper federation you'd never have to screenshot a post from one platform to repost it 100 times to another.

Also, like it or not, for every bad idea on platform X, there are just as many on platform Y. The biggest differences come down to how the content is sorted, presented, and interacted with.