One last recommendation

I'm a fan of Lemmy, though I recognize that some limitations could be considered flaws (https://piefed.social/comment/11707767).

However, your perspective must take into account some design (and history) issues with the software you mentioned:

Lemmy barely works with PeerTube [discuss.tchncs.de]

It's important to understand a few concepts here:

• Lemmy is based on Activitypub groups
• A group works by "resharing" an initial post and all replies to that post
• With some programs (Mastodon's "socialverse," Misskey, Pleroma, Friendica, or Pixelfed), you can "post inside a group" only by mentioning the "group user"; with others (Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin/NodeBB's forumverse, but also Peertube, Mobilizon, or Flipboard), you simply assign a discussion to a group (you can do this easily from the interface). This second mode doesn't yet have a syntax shared by all the software in the Fediverse.
• Finally, a very important feature of Lemmy is that a post can only be published to one channel at a time. This might seem like a limitation (we'll discuss it later, when talking about Flipboard), but it's actually designed by the developers to prevent synchronous crossposting, which can dramatically increase spam.

Lemmy handles the display of Peertube content very well and correctly assigns it to the correct Peertube channel. What doesn't work well is the update system, which is why Lemmy can't act as a Peertube feed reader. This isn't Lemmy's fault, nor is it Peertube's, as each handles Activitypub groups differently.

Lemmy doesn't work with Pixelfed [discuss.tchncs.de]

That's not true. Lemmy handles Pixelfed very well. Pixelfed users can open threads on Lemmy or reply to Lemmy discussions. However, Pixelfed only shows users retweets made by Pixelfed, not those from other software. Therefore, Pixelfed users cannot access the groups.
Regarding your user, I'd like to point out that feddit.it can see it: https://feddit.it/u/NotAHopeInHades@pixelfed.social

Lemmy doesn't work with Loops [discuss.tchncs.de]

Loops is still a very immature software, with very limited interoperability. I wouldn't consider it a valid test for certifying Lemmy's functionality.
Regarding your user, I'd like to point out that feddit.it can see it: https://feddit.it/u/spaceotter@loops.video

Lemmy doesn't work with Micro.blog [discuss.tchncs.de]

I'm not familiar with Microblog, but (regarding your user) I'd like to point out that feddit.it can see it: https://feddit.it/u/akshay@social.learnlearn.in

Lemmy doesn't seem to work with Flipboard

Flipboard uses groups to manage the "magazines" of the "main accounts." Magazines are the thematic sections of the main account. Basically, the main account (for example, @NationalGeographic@flipboard.com) publishes a news item, and depending on the topic, it can be published in the "Science" Activitypub group (@science-NationalGeographic@flipboard.com) or the "Environment" Activitypub group (@environment-NationalGeographic@flipboard.com), OR both.
This design, intended to maximize visibility on the Mastodon audience, is incompatible with Lemmy's logic.
Lemmy, in fact, as I mentioned before, doesn't allow synchronous crossposting of the same content across multiple groups.

The same goes for Misskey.

Lemmy handles Misskey very well. And Misskey handles Lemmy very well. I don't understand the problem.

• Lemmy barely works with PeerTube
• Lemmy doesn't work with Pixelfed
• Lemmy doesn't work with Loops
• Lemmy doesn't work with Micro.blog
• Lemmy doesn't seem work with Flipboard (though, I have no idea what the community URL would be)
• Ditto for Misskey

Is there any ActivityPub app that Lemmy is compatible with, or is it broken for all of them? Why pretend that it's part of a big Fediverse, when a vast majority of these instances are broken to us? (I'm not picking on discuss.tchncs.de, but you can plug in any Lemmy server you want and see the same kind of problems.)

The fact that Lemmy adopts solutions that are different from other software, but still more in line with Activitypub, shouldn’t be considered a problem.

You can have this stance, and be a purist about the RFCs and how the protocol is supposed to work. And you can push for these standards on your own platform for Lemmy.

But, at the end of the day, you still have to deal with the warts of other protocols and write the custom code it takes to bridge one app with another app. And then be thankful that you are not trying to bridge together an entirely different standard and are just trying to smooth over some structural differences in implementation.

It's not a "Fediverse", if it's not federated everywhere.

If I remember correctly, there was a problem in Lemmy that should be fixed with the upcoming 1.0 release and has already been fixed with the latest Piefed releases. This meant that third-level comments that didn't originate from Lemmy or Piefed weren't processed correctly by the platform.

They're out now, but I should compare them with the replies appended to the original post.
https://poliversity.it/@macfranc/116736605177662762

Like on all of https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/70448923 and https://lemmy.world/post/48069327 and even https://piefed.zip/comment/5630582 your most recent comments here do not show up at all, despite it having been sent 2 hours ago. Though somehow your earlier comments are visible, but not your latest ones?

And yet I see them on my instance. I am not sure why, or if your tagging my username specifically helped cause that to happen for this instance but somehow no other instances.

The formatting if I ask to "view markdown source" is messed up - everything is on a single line, and some formatting indicators are missing - but the traditional, regular display mode of the message is perfect.

Interrelation between the different platforms still needs improvements, but it is encouraging to see it get better over time.:-)

have some proof?

OP saying it?

the development wasn’t done with vibe coding, but was done over the course of almost two years, integrating observations and addressing issues.

But if everyone stopped to investigate every piece of slop thrown in front of them, all they'd do all day is that.

It just might help your argument avoid another goal-post move.

This isn't an argument, if you think goalposts are moving it means you still don't understand any of it.

But most importantly, I don't really give a fuck if people end up understanding. Go for it bro, slop em up, get those steaks super sloppy and slick your hair back reaaaaaal nice.

XMPP apps adopt this from Conversations, there's a setting to only listen to the proxy/orbot only.

but still!

I am not sure that you would get this unless I add your user tag @macfranc ?

Yes, I'd still get it, even if you didn't mention me. The problem arises when you reply to someone who replied to me: in that case, I might not receive the notification. Unfortunately (as often happens), the fault lies with Mastodon, not Lemmy/Piefed.

It is not your fault. The entire Fediverse is still being built, and it only gets better over time.:-) The fact that Lemmy + PieFed + mBin + nodeBB can intercommunicate at all is fantastic, even though yes there are some kinks remaining to be worked out:-).

I also believe this statement. Since I've been an instance administrator (Friendica, Lemmy, NodeBB, and Mastodon Glitch-soc), I've always been concerned with how the Fediverse software integrates with each other and with spreading knowledge of the various platforms

My intention was to make light of the reasoning behind criticism of your post, while pointing out to Threadiverse users that once you get past that, the actual content is quite solid. So less “wall of text” than merely “odd-looking introduction”. It’s a good post!

Thank you for your feedback. It's somewhere between a press release and an informational post about the Fediverse. I'm only surprised because, usually, the criticisms about length come from Mastodon users, not Lemmy users...

And yeah the giant text looks weird, haha!

Usually, the problem is solved at the user interface level. BBCode and Markdown have a certain number of standard levels for titles, and it's up to the final interpreter (the interface) to manage their display based on the tool (desktop browser, mobile browser, mobile app, etc.).

Especially since at first it is a repeat of the title, but then goes into new territory after that. I do not know if there is anything that can be done about it though, except further code development on the side of all the myriad varieties of recipients of the message.

Repeating the title, on the other hand, is the best possible solution for integrating threads opened in the forumverse by microblogging users: Lemmy takes the first 200 characters of the first paragraph and converts them into a title, disabling formatting, links, and mentions. That data, however, is re-proposed at the beginning of the post text.
I understand there are some issues, but I don't see any better solution than this.

I should add that, unfortunately, Mastodon's recent implementation of quoted posts has made it difficult for Lemmy to manage opening posts, because Mastodon formats posts that quote another post as:

Re: fedilinkhttps

Post text

And therefore, the title of a Lemmy thread would become
"Re: fedilinkhttps"

So you think OP honestly typed it themselves and just used standard AI formatting?

Bro...

AI may have wrote it first in Italian and then translated. But even if OP won't admit it, a human didn't write the post in any language.

They're just lying because they can't image it's obvious to some people

New account, was an hour old at the time I wrote the above, first thing they do is hop to this post to comment about downloading it.

...and as I explained here, it wasn't a "new" account, but rather one that was "intercepted" by Lemmy.world only when he replied to my post.

@cannedtuna

New account, was an hour old at the time I wrote the above, first thing they do is hop to this post to comment about downloading it.

There’s been a slew of posts recently about new apps, primarily on !selfhosted@lemmy.world that appear to be AI coded.

I did see you’ve got a number of people involved in this project so, maybe it’s unwarranted suspicion. My apologies if that’s the case. Just not a fan of AI.