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What Fediverse services do you use? (lemm.ee)
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/57576884

There's so many ways to interact with the Fediverse. The most popular, by far, seems to be Mastodon, but Lemmy, Misskey, and Pixelfed are also relatively popular. Kbin used to be popular, but it has apparently been abandoned, and is mostly dead at this point.

I recently learned that Mbin is a thing, checked it out, and it looked really cool! Has anyone used it? How different is it from Lemmy? I hear they have better integration with Mastodon.

What Fediverse services do you actually, regularly use?

For me, it's mostly Lemmy, though I do hop on Mastodon every now and then.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What do you think of Pixelfed? I hear it's kinda like Instagram, but how is the interop with the rest of the Fediverse?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you can follow pixelfed accounts from other fediverse issues with mostly not problems, you can comment and see comments from any service in the fediverse. That is: fediverse integration works as intended.

But Pixelfed is a social picture sharing application. You can follow a mastodon account, but pixelfed will only show you the media posts from the user, not the text ones (unless they're comments on a picture) for instance. As some other features mastodon posts have that pixelfed ones don't will not also work.

Conversely, you can follow a pixelfed account from mastodon, but most mastodon implementations don't support picture albums of over 4 pictures, you will not see over 4 pictures on the post.

That is working as intended though, they're different apps with different features, just talking the same language.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I see, I see... Thanks for the explanation, that's exactly what I wanted to know!