cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/37748055
… 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.
The promise of the Fediverse is not, has never been, and should never be read as, global, universal cross-communication. It is a network of social media networks, where small websites can syndicate like content with other small websites they want to share with.
This idea of sharing everything everywhere all at once is kind of a degenerate state,caused by a low population, and fueled by twenty years of people using absolutely unconsciencely huge social sites that have swallowed the web.
It should not be the end goal.
It probably shouldn’t be the start goal, but it’s too late for that.
Smaller sites, where people can build community, recognize and know each other, and create some kind of truly shared space, while also being able interact with tertiaty content of the same type outside the primary network is the promise of the fediverse.
You’re functionally complaining that, because your email client doesn’t play Tiktok videos, they have bith betrayed the promise of the Internet.