The Reddit-like structure of Lemmy, Mbin and I guess Piefed* make them kind of the Alaska of the Fediverse; they’re not really connected to the rest of it. The other platforms without the community structures interoperate; you can comment on a Peertube video from a Pixelfed account…but that doesn’t work with Lemmy and I’m not convinced I’ve ever interacted with Mbin.
*I just can’t keep up with all the meaningless names I’m expected to remember. Hell I can’t do it for people. “You know who Jim Flinnigan is?” “No I don’t.” “He’s the freshman state congressman from Wisconsin who’s proposing the controversial pecan legislation.” “Oh the nut bill guy. What about him?” -1/4th of every conversation with my father, because Jim Flinnigan could be a work buddy of his, someone somewhere in Hollywood in the last 90 years, or the Wisconsin nut bill guy. “You know who Flinn Jimmigan is, right?” “No I don’t.” “He was Edith Head’s optometrist in the 60’s.” On top of that, there’s hardware manufacturers, the trade names for their products, commercial software apps, open source apps, a new javascript framework comes out three times a leap second…
I feel this so hard in life… but also this particular community does make all of these interconnections between Fediverse products a very central point.
It’s true that both Mbin and PieFed have far fewer users than Lemmy, in large part bc historically they both lacked an app, yet now both have at least provisional support from some app or another, so there may be many more users of them in the future. Just search this very post for e.g. fedia.io (an Mbin instance, possibly the largest one iirc) or PieFed.social and you’ll see that these other, non-Lemmy members of the Threadiverse/Forumverse/Whatever part of the Fediverse are already here.:-)
The Reddit-like structure of Lemmy, Mbin and I guess Piefed* make them kind of the Alaska of the Fediverse; they’re not really connected to the rest of it. The other platforms without the community structures interoperate; you can comment on a Peertube video from a Pixelfed account…but that doesn’t work with Lemmy and I’m not convinced I’ve ever interacted with Mbin.
*I just can’t keep up with all the meaningless names I’m expected to remember. Hell I can’t do it for people. “You know who Jim Flinnigan is?” “No I don’t.” “He’s the freshman state congressman from Wisconsin who’s proposing the controversial pecan legislation.” “Oh the nut bill guy. What about him?” -1/4th of every conversation with my father, because Jim Flinnigan could be a work buddy of his, someone somewhere in Hollywood in the last 90 years, or the Wisconsin nut bill guy. “You know who Flinn Jimmigan is, right?” “No I don’t.” “He was Edith Head’s optometrist in the 60’s.” On top of that, there’s hardware manufacturers, the trade names for their products, commercial software apps, open source apps, a new javascript framework comes out three times a leap second…
I feel this so hard in life… but also this particular community does make all of these interconnections between Fediverse products a very central point.
It’s true that both Mbin and PieFed have far fewer users than Lemmy, in large part bc historically they both lacked an app, yet now both have at least provisional support from some app or another, so there may be many more users of them in the future. Just search this very post for e.g. fedia.io (an Mbin instance, possibly the largest one iirc) or PieFed.social and you’ll see that these other, non-Lemmy members of the Threadiverse/Forumverse/Whatever part of the Fediverse are already here.:-)
That’s it, we have our new name
Wait, was that the nut bill guy or eye doctor to the costume designer to the stars?