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Given the way this is tagged up with the @ and # throughout the comments I'm venturing it originated on Mastodon, yet here I am commenting on it from a Lemmy instance. Some of the inconsistencies of the federation between different platforms are going to come down to them each having different focuses, and that's plenty good. Trying to jam every functionality into a single platform is likely to result in it doing none of them well.
For my part having the ability to see one from another is a neat bonus, but not the main driver of use. The format and style of interactions leads me more towards things like Lemmy/K-Bin where some find Mastodon, Pixelfed, or any of the Friendica/Hubzilla style page base ones to be their thing. It's even possible people like more than one. I host both a Mastodon and Lemmy instance, and have toyed with others but didn't find them compelling enough to maintain.
So no, the notion of talking across platforms isn't so much the huge point of the fedi in my mind, but toss that in with the ability to do what you want to do similar to any of the big social platforms (they all pretty much have some kind of fedi counterpart now) without selling your soul to the corporate overlords is pretty fn awesome
@ShellMonkey To be honest, I totally agree. Again, it boils down to the type of needs you have as a user. I want to have a personal profile where I can post stuff I've written, doing campaigning, share stuff about events I've participated to, and so on. That would be a profile I hand out on business cards and such.
At the same time, I love content/link aggregators, as that is the way of interacting online I find most interesting.
TLDR; I'm still in the search of the best software for my needs.
In those two cases I'd think the Friendica/Hubzilla apps and the Lemmy/K-Bin apps would fit those two needs respectively. I've also bookmarked this thing called Fire fish that seems to have potential as a sort of all-of-the-above effort that could prove interesting, just don't want to see something that tries to be too much at once and fails at all of it as a result though.
A big part of the problems in anything on the fediverse as a professional presentation is that very little of the software is really well polished. Mastodon is probably the most 'pretty' of any of them right now that I'm familiar with, but there's always the balancing act with new software between working well and looking good/friendly that takes some time to hammer out, particularly if there isn't a massive development team backing it.