I’ve been researching for the past week Threadiverse projects (Lemmy at first, then PieFed and now Mbin) with the goal of testing out their interoperability with the rest of the Fediverse.

Apologies in advance if this is the third post you see from me - this one is my first in Mbin.

I wonder if you have any insights regarding the differences between the 3 - advantages/disadvantages and opinions on your favorite project?

I’m also interested to see if Mbin manages to federate mentions (unlike Lemmy and PieFed who falls short). So for the purposes of this test, I’m mentioning:

  • my Mastodon account @_elena@mastodon.social
  • my Friendica account @elena@opensocial.space
  • and my Lemmy account @elena@lemmy.world to see if anything happens

Thanks and happy to be here!

  • rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com
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    3 months ago

    You can search for mags that are already federated but if a community does not appear in a search I’m not even sure if or how a user can create the federated relationship.

    On Mbin, if you paste a post from another instance into the search bar, it will fetch that post. Then you can search for the community and subscribe to it. As long as there is at least one subscriber on the instance, it will be federated… eventually.

    You can’t retroactively fetch previous posts and comments though, you have to manually search for the permalink of each post and comment that occurred before you subscribed. Future stuff should be okay. I had to do this a few weeks ago and I’m pretty sure that’s how I managed it.