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?)

  • jwr1@kbin.earth
    2·
    15 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·
      15 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·
        14 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·
          14 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!