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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

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Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration)

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Why aren't lemmy DMs compatible with mastodon? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mastodon dms are just posts with limited visibility, and a mention to the person recieving it. They don't seem to be compatible with lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They have conferences about ActivityPub. Why isn't W3C trying to fix this mess in newer backwards-incompatible versions? The time to do it is now, not later, because it would involve a major version and years of pushing for adoption. The lack of standardization of basic concepts is why integrations of different types of implementations is a broken mess, which is the whole fucking point of ActivityPub! Now, we have to compete with ATProto, which has different kinds of problems, and it's very possible that it just wins out and kills ActivityPub.

This reminds of the early days of SMTP, where there was zero thought behind security, and that created an entire spam industry.

PeerTube integration into Lemmy is still shit, poorly implemented, and rarely linked by Lemmy admins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

There are now Fediverse Enhancement Proposals (FEP) that are being published by Fedi developers with the goal to improve interoperability and well-being of diverse services, applications and communities that form the Fediverse.