I wonder what is going to be the future of all of these ActivityPub-based services.
I'd like a real integration within all of them. It would be great if people could interact with any of these systems regardless of the services/instance where they created their account.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we are far from that. My understanding is there are some features that don't federate well. Like even within the same services, take Mastodon for instance, I think the number of "likes"/"favorites" of a given toot are different depending on the instance you are accessing the toot.
Regarding Firefish/Calckey, they keep presenting Firefish as a Mastodon with extra features but I don't know how well the extra features federate. If someone reacts to a post using a particular emoji, how that is going to be interpret by the other apps? I think there are similar issues between applications that considers upvotes/downvotes and applications that only consider upvotes or even worse, none of them.
I don't want to jump from one social network A to another B just because B added some X functionality. And in many cases, the social network B is not a superset of A, as there might be some features in A not existing in B.
And btw, talking about that, I'm starting to see some sort of "aggressivity" from Firefish user's towards Mastodon. The way they present these features is a bit pushy. I'm not a Mastodon fanboy and I wish well for both communities.
For sure I'll give Firefish a try (even though I prefer more text-post than post full of emojis) but as I said before, I don't want to jump from one social network A to another B just because they added a brand new minor feature, specially if A is getting well established and I see more activity there.
What are the features of Firefish that don't federate well with Mastodon? and in the case I use them in my posts, to what level are they integrated into Mastodon? Will my Firefish posts still be visible and discoverable from Mastodon?
@sebitoutou@programming.dev
I'm replying to this from Firefish. Also reacted with a 🔥 emoji, so we'll see how that works (if at all)
@xepher@calckey.world, can you also point to me how you got to this thread from Firefish? In Mastodon, I searched for
@fediverse@lemmy.world
and in that profile, that account boosts all the answers taking place in this community.In Firefish, I searched for the same string
@fefiverse@lemmy.world
, I got to the profile page of the fediverse community, but I don't get to see any post/boost made by that account.@sebitoutou@programming.dev
I did exactly what you described you did for Firefish. I think it depends if someone on your Firefish instance has subscribed to that Lemmy community before or not. When I opened the @fediverse@lemmy.world profile I saw all the posts and replies listed and just replied to the post from there.
Hi there! The links in your text lead away from the user's instance, here are fixed links that stay on each user's instance: !fediverse@lemmy.world
I just confirmed it. Yes, the visualization of a profile (the fediverse community located in lemmy.world in this case), will vary depending on the instance being used to access it. It's really a pity though. Things like that should be transparent.
IMHO, whenever the user searches explicitly for a profile/toot/post/whatever, all relevant data should be fetched as well.