... 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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[–] chris@l.roofo.cc 5 points 2 days ago

You misunderstood me. It's not that the content is not relevant. It's that the threaded discussion style just doesn't map to Mastodon. Technically they can talk to each other but practically there is no sensible way to display the info on Mastodon.

The activitypub protocol that powers the fediverse is very versatile. So versatile that not every message can sensibly be displayed by every implementation.

Example: Mastodon does not support downvotes, lemmy and peertube do. In lemmy the descussion belongs to a group entity, in Mastodon everything belongs to a person entity.

Both are valid implementations of the spec but they use different parts of it that are relevant for them.