As you can see, I’m on mbin, originally because it has the goal of being a network that could be used to access a number of other networks - definitely Lemmy, and Mastodon was promised at some point but I don’t think that ever happened - and development doesn’t seem to be going further.

So I’m curious - is there a “do-it-all” network? The basic idea is: when I scroll through my feed, I not only see content from Lemmy, but also from Mastodon, Piefed, Peertube, Pixelfed, etc, and can also comment on or create content there. Is that something that exists or is that a pipe dream at the moment? (Or would that not even be possible due to some technical limitation?)

  • Gandalf@kbin.earth
    4·
    1 day ago

    If you go to the all microblogs feed you can see all the microblogs federated to your instance. Alternatively you can use the combined feed and it will have both threads and microblogs mixed together however you may have to scroll a while or sort by new to see microblogs.

    This is due to the difference in how users interact with the two forms of content and thus how they are ranked by the sorting algorithms. Threads will typically get more interaction with votes and comments than microblogs will because they are strutured more for discussion whereas with microblogs people tend to post more but each individual post gets less interaction and thus they get pushed down with the sorting methods used by lemmy/piefed/mbin.

    Mastodon uses a chronological sort so if you do want to see more microblogs it would probably be easiest to copy that and sort by new. I’m starting to think the only way to get a good mix between the two types of post is to have custom client side algorithms but that can get kinda complicated so no one is really doing it.

    • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earthOP
      2·
      1 day ago

      Good to know about the sorting, that explains why I barely see microblogs. The mixed feed is what I’m generally using, but I only ever see microblogs from kbin.earth and not anywhere else. I’ve checked to make sure it’s set to all instances, as well as all magazines as mbin calls it, but still, only kbin.earth. Even if I just show microblogs. And I don’t ever see anything from peertube. So I guess mbin does it, I must be doing something wrong somewhere…

      • Gandalf@kbin.earth
        1·
        9 hours ago

        I’m on kbin.earth too and just checked the combined all feed sorting by newest and 6 out of the first 25 posts were microblogs from a mix of mastodon and misskey so they’re definitely federating. I’m not sure of any other settings that would prevent them being displayed. @[email protected] do you have any ideas?

        • jwr1@kbin.earth
          2·
          4 hours ago

          @unknownuserunknownlocation

          I am definitely seeing microblogs from non kbin.earth users on my account, and if you view the global microblog page not logged-in, you can also see it as well. I don’t believe there is a setting that would prevent seeing microblog’s from federated users (apart from the all/local feed option, which you already said was on all).

          Also, here is an example peer tube channel, which you can see video posts federating under: https://kbin.earth/m/[email protected]

          I hope this helps.

          • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earthOP
            1·
            4 hours ago

            I checked the global microblogs page, but I’m mostly seeing things posted to [email protected], with a couple of things posted to some Lemmy instances, but nothing posted to mastodon. Maybe I’m understanding the whole concept wrong? (Or I’m blind?)

            But I did look at the Linux Experiment channel - and realized that I have seen their videos in my feed - awesome! And there, it makes sense that not as many of those pop up, since there are way less videos being created than posts made. But I now know that that works - cool! (And now I’m distracted by another of his videos…)

            • jwr1@kbin.earth
              2·
              3 hours ago

              Mastodon (and related platforms) do not have a concept of magazines (communities), but Mbin requires that all posts should be categorized into a magazine, thus, most Mastodon posts you will find within the random magazine. They are still going to include external servers, which you can verify by checking the author of the post and seeing which server they are from.

              • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earthOP
                2·
                3 hours ago

                OK, got it! I tried going on a microblog post and opening the original URL, and sure enough, I landed on a Mastodon instance. Makes sense, I was sort of surprised at the amount of microblog content on kbin.earth, that explains that.

                Awesome - thanks!