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

  • maegul@hachyderm.ioOP
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    6 months 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.