… 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.
I don’t know that this is an unpopular opinion as much as an uninformed one.
Lemmy and mastodon are capable of interacting. Activitypub is fully functional in that regard.
But if users don’t want to do so, from either end, then it isn’t a flaw in either service or software.
So it isn’t lemmy that has broken anything. Nor mastodon. It’s people having preferences as to how they approach things. Some of that is a preference for not caring about the other branches of the fediverse. Which is perfectly valid. But, again, that’s not a broken promise.
To the contrary, I’d argue that it’s a promise fulfilled by activitypub. The promise of choice.