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The platforms should provide inter-protocol bridging natively. Now we have to follow an unrelated (to either) account and hope that it not fails silently*. This should be a switch in the UI.
*at least one can follow bridged accounts from elsewhere without bridging oneself.
OP is on lemmy.world, and default feed is All (sorted by Active) there
kbin.social did lift off. Maybe even too much for this software at the time?
If Mbin is meant to be a “Lemmy and Mastodon client” alone, then it is a quirky Lemmy “app” and less responsive Mastodon “app”.
But it shines only when it scales. This, however needs more users taking use of eg. magazines’ custom CSS (and these don’t even federate!), keeping track on most popular Mastodon & co hashtags, adding these tags to Mbin magazines, following outside accounts to federate them to instance, etc…
All the Great Exodus fledditors, people craving for non-tankie Threadiverse service, and also curious fedinauts from outside made this happen on kbin.social, and this is what I loved in it the most.
Mbin happened when kbin.social was already crumbling, but many of its users (me included) still hoped for it. When kbin.social definitely collapsed, the previous kbinauts were already aware of not-tankie Lemmy instances, like sh.itjust.works (hosting MeanwhileOnGrad), sopuli.xyz, or generic lemmy.world.
Maybe the more aggresive Mbin marketing (have you seen the sidebar of this community - it still mentions “KBin”…) would help Mbin - but only at cost of making drama with existing kbinauts. With Lemmy’s toxicity problem being talked much recently (and instances being closed because of it) I am glad, that things did not go that way.
Of course we can create another large set of sublemmies for new people to think that they may post there, but then it becomes apparent, why Ernest from /kbin has named them Magazines, and not Communities…
I will spare you guessing: with so much “community” names and few people using them “comms” become just categories to post and follow. It may work for a social news website (as it was a primary format of Digg and then Reddit), but this will not replace Reddit as place for discussions.
outdoor, travel
Maybe let’s introduce them to Wanderer first?
Productivity
I doubt they would remain here. The Threadiverse is biased towards Open Source and ethical solutions and for any normie not interested in it at all this will bore them quickly…
all about pets, dogs bunnies cats etc
A traditional forum is better for that purpose. One would better build it on NodeBB ;)
european tech workers?
Why would they use specifically the Threadiverse, if they could network better on (larger) Mastodon?
movies, animated movies, series, animated series
There was lemmy.film, but it went belly up. Many of communities from there moved to lemm.ee and then to PieFed.social.
And there is https://adultswim.fan/ .
anime, manga, manwha, webtoon
We literally have got https://ani.social/ .
gaming
https://lemmy.zip/ is skewed towards tech, PCs and gaming
instance for every city? mabe for every region?
It worked for much of Europe, for Canada, Chile, Brazil and Oceania. Regional instances were attempted for US and apart from https://midwest.social/ and https://yall.theatl.social/ (related to Mastodon instance) they failed.
European Union hub
Main problem of Europe Pub is that it isn’t a PieFed instance. Topics would easily direct interested users into their national subs, which already exist on national instances. Nowadays it is a duplication of effort, which either fragments or needlessly centralises the European Threadiverse, depending on its success.
medical advice
IMHO Quora would be a better place for this than Reddit (shall it not enshittify)
I just don’t wasn’t then to waste their time locally blocking a clear spam account, that should (and usually will be) removed by the originating instance in a couple hours.
I am afraid, that removal of spam account does not necessarily federate to another instance. On Mastodon activities federate mainly to instances an account, which made/edited/deleted the post, is followed from. (Or an instance can subscribe to relay, which exchanges all activities between all participating instances).
Report always landing to your admin may be something good in light of this…
horsesh.itjust.works
Individual Mastodon (et al.) instances may provide their own status pages. But nothing Mastodon-wide.
You would love kbin.social.
It combined posts from Lemmy and Mastodon, allowing to browse and sort both of these like on Reddit. Mastodon toots were matched to respective magazines (like Lemmy/Piefed communities) based on their hashtags. And multireddit-like feature (called Collections there, and recently reimplemented in federated form by PieFed as Feeds) allowed any user to combine several magazines, Lemmy communities and Guppe groups in a single view.
All of these has been inherited by Mbin (a /kbin fork), outside of Collections/Feeds.
Largest instances are https://fedia.io/ and https://kbin.earth/. There are much smaller, than flagship /kbin instance have been, though, so both will be aware of less posts…
OP wants to sort posts by popularity and unfortunately Mastodon does not allow that :( Trending posts exist but only instance-wide
Brutalinks (HN/Lobsters clone, one-community per instance), lotide (minimalist, RIP), Prismo (RIP)
This probably won’t help you, but there was Flockingbird. However its attempt to index Mastodon’s job offers ended up in drama as Mastodon generally does not like being indexed…
Just use Mastodon.
You probably want to use another Lemmy instance to search for this content.
(and actually Sepia Search is simply a search engine for PeerTube and that’s it. You are still getting the video only after you visit the instance…)
Updated, thanks!
I blame this on an UX blunder.
Bluesky users are taught not to enter their Bluesky passwords to enter different apps, but rather create a different “app password” for each one. Then Frontpage went OAuth which directs users to Bluesky login page. Bluesky brings us a different login page for OAuth use :/ and obviously does not remember that we are already logged in in the same browser.
This of course means that we have to enter a Bluesky password to a slightly different-looking website - a somewhat fishy way to authenticate a user…
Did you mean Vivaldi? It features a sidebar already with their own Mastodon instance: Vivaldi Social featured as one of sidebar entries.
A Vivaldi account allows to use not only Vivaldi Social, but also to make a WordPress blog, with federation available too.