UI differences are a big factor in the success/failure of decentralised federation of diverse platforms and content

And this seems a good example: bridged #mastodon posts onto #BlueSky which has a lower character limit than Mastodon.

So, just like #lemmy posts on mastodon, you don’t get the full content of the post (which ends with an abrupt ellipsis here) and have to take a link to the original platform.

However powerful the underlying protocols, this isn’t far from screenshots.

@fediverse

  • @can
    1•25 days ago

    How do you see Lemmy posts on Mastadon anyway? This comment I understand but what about my posts?

    • maegulOP
      6•25 days ago

      @can

      Lemmy federates pretty well with mastodon. From mastodon you can follow a community as you would any person/user.

      There are two major problems though.

      1. everything in that community comes through as a flat firehose, including comments. There’s structuring into posts with comments inside.
      2. Mastodon doesn’t understand the type of object lemmy sends over ActivityPub, and so simply provides a title and a link to the original post.

      Also, you can just follow lemmy users on mastodon.

    • @Ziggurat
      1•25 days ago

      You can follow a lemmy community on Mastodon, and even comment from Mastodon.

      It’s not optimum, you see it like the community retooting each post and then the comments as reply to post but it works

        • @taladar
          2•24 days ago

          Especially when all the workarounds to make it barely usable from Mastodon spill over into Lemmy in the form of bots posting weird hashtags or headlines being full of hashtags,…