Lemmy is a great piece of software and works well, although it has some limitations that will be partially improved with version 1.0.

Lemmy also has two major problems, one that isn’t related to Lemmy and one that is.

1. The first problem is that Lemmy doesn’t handle Activitypub groups managed by Friendica and NodeBB well. It’s unable to pick up NodeBB and Friendica posts in the wrong places, so you’ll never see any NodeBB or Friendica posts in the community timeline. Fortunately, it handles Piefed communities correctly, because they work with the same logic.
2. The second problem is related to Mastodon: this is effectively a design flaw in Mastodon. In fact, the top posts published by Lemmy are displayed as a message that only contains the title and the link to the message. This is a problem because Mastodon users will always see uninteresting posts and won’t want to interact. At the same time, Mastodon users, unless they use apps like Raccoon, will never have clear visibility into Lemmy communities, which are actual Activitypub groups. Only the Raccoon app is able to show Mastodon users and Activitypub group posts as topics, while any other Mastodon application would display them as disaggregated posts within the same continuous stream of all other posts.

These two issues make Lemmy integration with the Fediverse problematic. For example, I’m trying to push the communities of my Lemmy instance feddit.it among the users of my Mastodon instance poliversity.it, and today I can say with some satisfaction that half of the posts published on my Lemmy instance come from Mastodon users who have thus learned to integrate with the Lemmiverse.

Unfortunately, however, almost no other Mastodon instance administrator shows this interest. And unfortunately, mastodon remains the largest community in the Fediverse, the only one that could help Lemmy achieve a greater “network effect”!

This is a shame because mastodon users themselves could benefit positively from the existence of Lemmy communities as Activitypub groups.

So let’s hope something happens in the future.

Hubzilla

This is generally the way Mastodon displays posts, that they do not appear in an orderly manner.

In my opinion, this is not a contingent consequence, but the problem is a bit deeper: Mastodon staff knows well that helping Mastodon users to use groups better (for example by helping them to visualize them better) means helping competing projects like Friendica, Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed, gup.pe and even Peertube (which also works as a synolos between user (author) and group (channel). Helping the rest of the Fediverse means giving up the dominant leadership position that guarantees them subsidies, donations, visibility and, above all, the possibility to do whatever the fuck they want, imposing de facto standards.

Distribution of active users in the Fediverse (source: fedidb.org - 12/2024)

PS: this is why I am a supporter of Friendica, Lemmy/Piefed, Wordpress, Mbin, Peertube and Bonfire: because virtuous competition brings diversity and diversity brings resilience

I remind you that mastodon users can overcome the serious problem of not being able to view Lemmy communities in an orderly manner. The Raccoon for Friendica app, compatible with Mastodon, provides simplified viewing (viewing only topics) for all accounts of the Lemmy community, Friendica group or Gup.pe group type

https://www.informapirata.it/2024/10/18/raccoon-the-friendica-app-that-also-has-surprises-for-mastodon-users-automatic-translation-from-italian/

Yes, it happens to me too

This morning we had as many new subscriptions to feddit.it as we usually have in a week! Have you also noticed the same peak on lemmy.ml?

Who knows… maybe after the Dunkirk of Twitter users landed on Mastodon, we would have a small migration of Reddit users…

When you write from Friendica (or another social network) to post on Lemmy, you must respect some basic rules.

Here I tried to write a handbook (in Italian) to help users write posts that have a readable title and work well

https://www.informapirata.it/2023/02/28/si-profila-allorizzonte-un-punto-di-contatto-tra-forum-e-social-network/#formattazione-lemmy

Furthermore, as regards the titles, you must take into account that Lemmy only interprets up to 200 characters; when exceeding 200 characters, the title is truncated. To count the characters, however, you have to consider the BBCode characters of the source text, which are converted into Markdown in Lemmy. So you have to be careful that “marked” text strings don’t end up at the 200th character! Here are some additional notes:

https://www.informapirata.it/2023/02/28/si-profila-allorizzonte-un-punto-di-contatto-tra-forum-e-social-network/#formattazione-friendica

Yes, these are accounts of the same friendica instance managed with the same privacy policies and which always respond to the first post lemmy

I think I understand the problem: it is not a question of federation, but a problem related to the “type of account” in Friendica

https://lemmy.ml/post/219638/comment/151357

I did four tests from four accounts I own, all from the same friendica instance (poliverso.org):

1. OK from a personal account: https://lemmy.ml/post/219638/comment/151329
2. OK from a personal “sandbox” account: https://lemmy.ml/post/219638/comment/151337
3. OK from a “news” account: https://lemmy.ml/post/219638/comment/151338

4) NOK from an “organization” type account: https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-1462-4de8-65bd-587299275161

It seems clear to me therefore that the problem lies in the fact that Lemmy accepts messages from the first three types, but not from an organization page. I hazard a guess (but I’m not a technician): is it possible that the “organization” account type in friendica corresponds to a lemmy account type that is not compatible with the answers (perhaps it corresponds to the “community” lemmy account type)?

You were right to remember, thanks, but the problem in question concerned the response from a Friendica user to a post published by a Lemmy user; and not the publication of a new Lemmy post by a Friendica user.

Certainly. In any case, the Poliverse instance and the polli.social instance are both updated to the latest version released.

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The plugin is great and with mastodon and misskey it works great. If the blog comments are closed, in some cases it is not enough to approve, but you must approve the comment by making any changes to it (from the wordpress moderation panel).

Personally I encountered a problem with Friendica: since Friendica has native support for following RSS / ATOM feeds, it seems that the RSS protocol prevails over the wordpress / activitypub one. I don’t know how this can be resolved …

The only sore point is this: I would like to point out that, with this plugin, a private/direct message is not reported in a particular way and therefore, once published, it loses its privacy attributes. Also, if the user deletes the message, the unsubscribe message is not accepted by the plugin and the message still remains crystallized for eternity in the form of a comment in the WordPress blog. This of course happens even if the message is a direct message, therefore the highest standard level of confidentiality existing today in the social networks of the fediverse. Having said that, for a principle of caution related to privacy, I will disable the plugin pending further changes; however I believe that the activitypub for wordpress plugin is a beautiful project and that it deserves further development and possibly further financial support; in fact, the path taken is good and contributes to making the web more beautiful and similar to the decentralized spirit of the origins

The term metaverse is earlier, although it is at least suspicious that the metaverse was launched just at the moment when Trump’s “truth” project granted great notoriety to mastodon and all other federated platforms.