And it also seems that mastodon can also be “syndicated” to these other communities, and vice versa? Is that true?
Are there limitations to any of this?
Apologies if this is not the perfect place to ask this question. I’m a lost old man. :-)
Thank you. That makes a lot of sense. I didn’t know they spoke the same underlying protocol.
For fun and experimentation, I’m answering you from my Kbin account. I feel like a kid in a candy store playing with this new technology. Maybe Reddit’s suicide-by-greed is not entirely a bad thing.
Wanna try something crazy? Go to a mastodon instance like this one and put @asklemmy@lemmy.ml on the searchbar there.
or do the inverse, look for someone local to mastodon, like @stux@mstdn.social and search in our searchbar. Result.
I think this works even for unfederated things, then by doing that you end up federating them to the whole server.
I agree. I’m sad at the loss of my 12 year account over there and all the information it had built up. I’m sad to lose my niche hobby communities (for now). Even with that, I’m really hopeful that federated social media will eventually take off. Now we just need to make sure that major corporate interests don’t dig their gross claws into it (Meta is apparently making plans to do so).
I feel like Meta going into the fediverse shows that they can see the tide rising on decentralized social media. My main concern with the Meta instance is more about whether or not they’ll support account migration.
To me, the killer feature of the fediverse is the account migration. (it’s coming eventually to kbin)
Sure it’s nice (actually awesome) to see content from so many diverse communities… But the killer app is being able to move to a new server when you need to and get your followers to automatically follow you at the new location. This prevents enshittification to a large degree, because there’s no lock-in network effects.
Kbin may allow migrating between Kbin instances, but would they support migration to Lemmy instances? If not then not sure we could expect Meta to support it either.
Pure speculation but I think a likely scenario is Meta would have all their accounts registered on a centralised server, and only have the content decentralised.
