... where every platform communicates with every other platform. i've rarely ever seen a post from mastodon on here, and even if it's technically possible, it doesn't seem that it happens very often.

likewise, i've rarely if ever seen a post from lemmy on mastodon. these two platforms just don't seem to interact much.

the fediverse is already very small. fragmenting it even further by having multiple services that basically don't talk to each other is not good. we need to either (a) aggressively find a way to bridge certain lemmy communities to be more visible on mastodon, especially location-based communities, or (b) i think that i'll have to decide to only use mastodon in the future, because that's where all my irl-friends are (yes i have those too, i do not only exist in a terminally online state :) and because mastodon is bigger already and that's why i think that it has a bigger chance of taking off.

so, what do i suggest should happen?

especially for location-based communities (australia, london, darmstadt, ...) it should be more probable for people living in these locations to draw use out of the lemmy community. maybe it's just a question of showing lemmy content from these communities on mastodon home pages, or auto-subscribing mastodon users to nearby lemmy communities. something like that.

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This seem to stem from a misunderstanding. Lemmy and Mastodon have different goals. Users of each generally don't want the other's content generally showing up en masse.

If you want to see something from Mastodon, you can usually get it on Lemmy, and vice versa. I don't often see Mastodon posts either, but that's because I only follow Lemmy communities, so I only see them when someone on Mastodon tags a Lemmy community in their post. If you want to see more Mastodon content, see if you can follow some users or hashtags from Lemmy.

But that might not be supported; I haven't tried. If you prefer Mastodon, I'm pretty sure that you can follow Lemmy communities from there.

[–] libewa@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I would really be fine following some Lemmy communities on Mastodon, but the Lemmy developers have made the absurd choice to have a community reblog every single comment made on one of its posts. Why??? Threadiverse users don't see it like that, they just see the post.

[–] Kierunkowy74@piefed.zip 6 points 2 days ago

All posts and comments are Announce'd to make all posts and comments to the community visible to any subscriber. It's Mastodon which does not filter these from timeline in any way and treats any Announce as a reblog a.k.a. boost

[–] chris@l.roofo.cc 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because that was deemed the best way to let every subscriber of a community see all comments.

[–] libewa@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, if your software doesn't explicitly filter them out, it clutters your timeline beyond recognition.

[–] chris@l.roofo.cc 4 points 2 days ago

That's Mastodon's fault. The thing is that the comments are essential to lemmy. That's why they are reposted. It's just that Mastodon doesn't implement groups well.