Lemmy developers have said there are no near plans for allowing users to follow mastodon or other activityPub networks, so I’m considering another platform that can do this.
It looks like mbin, Piefed and FediLab have the ability to do this. Has anyone tried them and have a comparison?
I also heard it may be possible to do from just mastodon-like platforms. Anyone tried this?
Mbin of course! I may be biased, since I created the fork and I’m a contributor to Mbin.
PieFed dev here - if you want to follow Mastodon accounts, I recommend Mbin.
About 20% of the content in piefed.socal comes from Mastodon but it’s through indirect means (a.gup.pe groups, mastodon users @mention-ing communities). Mastodon users can reply to PieFed posts and receive your replies to their comments.
who came up with this name, and why?
from the faq
Why ‘moist’?! wtf is wrong with you?
It’s comically unmarketable
the real reference is a bloom county comic storyline. the gang extracts sweat from a cat as a hair replacement tonic
I can’t say that the ability to follow individual people is really something I care about, but coming from Piefed, it does seem to work just fine. So does Peertube and any of the other ones I’ve bothered to try.
Someone posted something recently that checked a bunch of functionality across different networks.
https://blog.elenarossini.com/
Did an excellent job and had had many posts on this community. Lots of good experiments.
