• db0OP
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    26 hours ago

    Not gonna lie, I’d love for better integration between services, but I am fairly sure I saw lemmy devs adamantly insisting they’re following apub and mastodon is doing it wrong so 🤷

    • @[email protected]
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      15 hours ago

      Its not that anyone is “doing it wrong” and Mastodon doesn’t really support Lemmys communities either. So Lemmy works in a bit of a funky way that doesn’t match most other fediverse services.

      Its just a bit strange that Lemmy does not support the more common posts outside communities since that is how most of the fediverse works, so we’re kinda missing out on a lot of content that we can’t see on Lemmy.

      This is the FEP Lemmy uses but most other fediverse services do not use it and Lemmy does not support anything that doesn’t use this FEP. So again, it’s not that Lemmy is doing something wrong, but Lemmy is not supporting how most of the rest of the fediverse functions.

      • db0OP
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        14 hours ago

        OK, so is lemmy out of standard or not? Like I can understand why lemmy doesn’t support apub notes, as it’s out of scope, but why does mastodon support articles badly?

        • @[email protected]
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          14 hours ago

          ActivityPub is an extensible protocol. It is not just one thing. Lemmy only supports posts that follow that extension I linked above. That extension has a definition and Lemmy follows it so in that way it is “standard”. But it is an extension, not part of the core protocol.

          Mastodon and most other fediverse services do not support this extension.

          • db0OP
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            12 hours ago

            Sounds like mastodon and other services ought to really support this extension though.

            • @[email protected]
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              12 hours ago

              Sure. But lemmy would still not show Mastodon posts outside communities even if they supported that extension. Both parties need to move towards each other.