That’s a problem for people who use Meta. How is it a problem for people on Mastodon?

But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t federate in other ways.

How does it federate in ways that affect users?

Mastodon is unusable if you follow Lemmy communities, so no one does.

But that wasn’t my question. If a Lemmy instance I am on federates with Threads, how do I find people on Threads, follow them, and have their posts appear in my Lemmy feed? The people who are saying it can be done are not also explaining how it can be done. You seem to be saying, in a roundabout way, that it cannot be done?

There are, thankfully, plenty of instances which allow it.

I was responding to a poster who wants it to not be possible. Because a centralised authority making decisions for all users is good, or something.

There’s very little point telling me it is possible without telling me how. I have tried and failed with kBin and I don’t even know where to start with Lemmy.

I would like to follow Cory Doctorow’s Mastodon account on Lemmy. Could you explain how?

Thanks,

1. Because that is not a decision Lemmy can make; thousands of different instances running Lemmy can choose to do whatever its admins choose to do.

2. Because (AFAIK) Lemmy instances cannot federate with Threads anyway.

For anybody looking to avoid ads on Lemmy, it seems like direct federation with Threads is not a good idea currently.

Can Lemmy federate with Threads?

I can follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon (but don’t because it just fills your feed with an avalanche of out-of-context posts).

I can’t follow anyone on Mastodon from Lemmy (and while I think it is, or should be, possible from kBin, that doesn’t seem to work well yet).

So how can a Lemmy instance federate with Threads and how would their micro-blog posts turn up on Lemmy?

I’m not remotely bothered by federation on Mastodon because there is no algorithm pushing crap on me there. I’ll get what I follow and nothing else.

The Fediverse is not large enough to replace Twitter/Reddit (for breadth and depth of content) and it is unlikely to become large enough any time soon.

Fortunately, Mastodon does not push an algorithmic feed on me so I can follow people I want to hear from on Threads without having to put up with the bullshit that comes from being on Threads.

I recognise that the lack of moderation on Threads means that instances which do federate may be faced with a lot of extra work and not all instances will be up for that, and that’s totally fair.

But it would be good if there was at least one instance which allowed access to people on Threads without having to make an account with Meta.

FWIW it’s not a coincidence that Threads didn’t make federation possible until after they’d found a legal way to launch in the EU. They knew that if they federated first, the Fediverse would get a lot of EU users who would otherwise have joined Threads. I don’t think the entire Fediverse should cut itself off from Threads when many of its users might also like access to the feed without the Meta bullshit piled on top.

That sounds lush, tbf.

Where are you getting cream from? There’s no cream in Hasselback potatoes?

It’s likely a browser issue. I’ve found a workaround, thanks.

Aye, it looks like my browser is doing something strange. Thanks.

Browser (Firefox).

I just tried opening the feed from a thread set at a good zoom level and it is better? I don’t understand how or why. But I may have found some kind of solution by accident.

This is not like those other things.

We have shepherd’s pie (lamb) and cottage pie (beef) and fisherman’s pie (fish). They’re all constructed in much the same way but the name refers to the contents.

It’s just a misunderstanding and it’s not important but there is a real non-obsolete reason these dishes have the names they have.

I don’t know anything about the technical side of this. But I would (possibly naively) think that it would be simpler to have a filter that you could automatically apply to sift bog-standard search engine results for Fediverse instances? Like adding “site:uk” to the end of a normal search, except that your filter term would check a list of Fediverse instances to return the relevant results.

And make it an app/add-on so that people can use it with their usual search strategies.

That just forces everyone who wants/needs the bigger ecosystem to leave Mastodon and join Threads. It’s daft.

The beauty of the Fediverse is that different instances can make different choices and people can choose their instance based on the choices they prefer. The Fediverse is not a monolith and demanding that it become one is just wildly missing the point.

I saw someone on Mastodon call it that. You are both a disgrace (sorry). This is toad in the hole (sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding).

Aren’t those Nigella seeds?

If they are Chia (or anyone wants to make this with Chia), make sure they’re properly soaked. They’re so thirsty for water they can cause some awful bowel problems if you eat them dry.

On the site formerly (and still) known as Twitter, I missed a lot because it did not show me everything from accounts I followed.

On Mastodon, I miss a lot because I wasn’t browsing my feed at the right time.

This would matter less on Mastodon if my feed was endless and I could browse it until I’d caught up with everything new. But it is not endless, so I can’t.

I don’t see how you can have multiple instances all injecting stuff into my feed, which is what the (other) OP seems to be suggesting? I don’t want any kind of algorithm deciding what I see and definitely not some kind of hyper-competitive inter-instance competition for my attention. But I wouldn’t mind if Mastodon worked out what I hadn’t yet seen from the accounts I follow and put it into my feed while I’m actually browsing it.

Yeah, a community overrun by fash will die. Not gonna work.