This is what makes the Fediverse so frustrating, been using: #Kbin #FireFish #Mastodon #Friendica #IceShrimp #Lemmy.
And no, they don’t speak to one another / find one another or are able to follow / like / reply to one another as one is told the Fediverse works.
The truth: some speak to some, and it rarely works both ways. Eg. Mastodon can do a lot more interacting with Lemmy, but not the other way around.
And then there are those that defederate from their own kind / federated social network, splintering the Fediverse even further apart.
Have had to either join new servers + delete current accounts, just because the server that was suggested, happened to be a server that others chose to defederate with.
Now with many accounts + many instances, been trying to find the best place to just have one space in the Fediverse + be able to communicate, follow and interact with other Fediverse users.
Maybe it’s this is wrong, but this has been the experience for almost a year now.
EDIT: APOLOGY
Seems like there are multiple posts, that was not the intention. :-(
English isn’t first language. Was trying to do the “change my mind” meme format they use on other sites to ask someone to prove you wrong, which is what was hoped for.
Apologies again.
This makes no sense, really sorry. Made a post and when looking for it, it just showed nothing. Look here is a screenshot of my personal feed. It only shows the comment on a fediverse post, which I then created into a stand-alone post, in hoping someone would be able to explain or prove me wrong.
And I can’t even go and delete the posts, as when looking inside the posts on my profile, it shows nothing either.
REALLY sorry for the multiple posts, thought the app was bugging out. :-(
Really sorry. Will check on laptop to see if I can find and delete the multiple posts from there…
I run my own Lemmy instance that's just me and a few close friends. I federate with who I want so I can follow the communities I want and it always works fine. Big instances defederate from each other, but I'm federated with both and so (so far) totally unaffected. I never have to make new accounts.
I DO pay about $25 a month in hosting fees, plus do the server maintenance work for these privileges. It's a price I am HAPPY to pay.
I didn't really use Twitter and I don't use Mastodon (I get SO frustrated by character limits and don't really want to spend my time on shallow conversation in metered soundbytes), so that part doesn't really impact me either.
Thanks for your response, was actually thinking of also creating a personal instance, for a small group only, then one can play around and set things there as you would want.
Stupid question, and please understand this comes from someone with a non-dev background:
Would it be possible to install say Mastodon, Kbin and Friendica instances on one server if it's just one person that's playing around to test the behind the scenes and see what they can do?
Assuming you could then link them to sub-domains: eg. Kbin.websitename.com Mastodon.websitename.com, etc?
Possible? Yes. But the web server configurations might be hard to figure out for someone who's unfamiliar.