Lemmy developers have said there are no near plans for allowing users to follow mastodon or other activityPub networks, so I’m considering another platform that can do this.
It looks like mbin, Piefed and FediLab have the ability to do this. Has anyone tried them and have a comparison?
I also heard it may be possible to do from just mastodon-like platforms. Anyone tried this?
PieFed dev here - if you want to follow Mastodon accounts, I recommend Mbin.
About 20% of the content in piefed.socal comes from Mastodon but it’s through indirect means (a.gup.pe groups, mastodon users @mention-ing communities). Mastodon users can reply to PieFed posts and receive your replies to their comments.
Will piefed add ability to follow mastodon users in the future?
Yes, I’d call it “medium priority”, tho. In the sense that I personally am not itching to work on it but if someone else did I’d help them get started in the right direction and then leave them to it.
who came up with this name, and why?
from the faq
Why ‘moist’?! wtf is wrong with you?
It’s comically unmarketable
the real reference is a bloom county comic storyline. the gang extracts sweat from a cat as a hair replacement tonic
Mbin of course! I may be biased, since I created the fork and I’m a contributor to Mbin.
Can we just bring back IRC?
is anyone stopping you?
I mean… you could contribute and write the feature
But if the feature already exists in another platform, I’d gladly use that instead.
Plus, lemmy developers said this would be a very difficult change to make and requires a lot of rewriting. I presume it is because activityPub was only added to lemmy much later on.
