... 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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[–] hitagi@ani.social 6 points 3 days ago

I remember Mastodon was working on groups so I imagine interaction from Mastodon to Lemmy would improve. Bonfire is rolling out groups pretty soon it seems. I've been trying it for a while now and I access both microblogs and groups from Bonfire.

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

I think part of this is the initial desire to model Fediverse platforms after mainstream counterparts. So you have Instagram-but-federated, Twitter-but-federated, Reddit-but-federated, YouTube-but-federated, TikTok-but-federated. These platforms don't really interact with each other directly, so the Fediverse ended up modeling that incompatibility, too.

That's the area projects like Mbin and Bonfire seem to be better at.