I don’t see it is really yet, mostly in terms of content. It lacks in many topics and is drowning under a few others. I would rather like to try building conversation on more diverse topics with the people already here and let curiosity and the network effect very slowly bring the other people in. Plus, it would make the fediverse more enjoyable for people already here.

Even in terms of interoperability the fediverse make a promise it can’t really uphold today. Sure I have my geek fun time publishing my reading note from BookWyrm to Lemmy and commenting on PieFed photos from Sharkey but it is not something a casual user would do. The fediwares need to mature and implement the interoperability ActivityPub allows. That won’t be for tomorrow.

That’s disappointing to see people who could attract people to the fediverse leave it and with bad memories.

Because it is fun.

If you want, I could use my dozen alt account to boost it up ;-)

There was a reason I said “slowly” before.

And produce good content. Our small userbase is slowly building its own culture. We have the potentiel to let exist all the content that cannot survive the pressure of the algorithme.

In my experience (non technical, my delelting post experience) when you create a post it propagates immediatly to any instance that is properly federate to your instance. This usually means same software and people from there following content from your instance. Then, with a lot of conditions to be fullfield, it propaged to partially federated instances. For example instance of another software that makes full federation more difficult, or instance that does a search on your specific post…

When you delete your post, it deletes automatically to any properly federated instance but that could be with a delay (a few minutes, or an hour) but the delete order has issues reaching all the other instances (the ones that were federeate when you create the post but not anymore, the ones from another fediware, …)

You also have no guaranty that someone doesn’t have your post in a backup they may use to restore a fallen instance, or leak through another way. As with every content on the internet, better consider anything once posted as know publically forever.

Are they fighting while covered in snow?

Long story short if you’re not on the same instance as the community, Mastodon replies to you won’t make it to the rest of the threadiverse.

Oh… That explains a lot of. Thank you for sharing the cause and the solution (^_^)

though the Lemmy comments were visible to me on Mastodon, the reverse was not true: most of the Mastodon replies were not visible on Lemmy.

Yeah… That’s a common federation issue. I haven’t properly investigated but a hypothesis might be that the account that commented are on instances not federating with the Lemmy instance.

Here a community for you to do more test : !testfediverse@jlai.lu

You can do your test here !testfediverse@jlai.lu (Lemmy) or here and here !testfediverse@feddit.online !testfediverse@tarte.nuage-libre.fr (piefed)

BookWyrm, reading tracker and review sharing

Yes widely by all my alts!

fedisoftware

“Fediware” ;-)

Some women wanted to donate me her retirement savings so I open a homeless shelter in Germany but that’s it.

I can’t access the first link.

Also, I haven’t done test on the lastest software version but edits didn’t fediversed back then.

Nothing like etiquette but if you want your post to be readable, some best practice: Have a shortish first paragraph that would be the title of the post on the threadiverse. Mind that it will also appear as the first paragraph in the content of the post.

Your toot must not be an answer or it won’t fediverse. All answers to your fediversing toot on the twittoverse side should be consider comment on the threadiverse side. But depending on how well both instances are federating, not every answer might show up both sides.
Usually, first level answer toots fediverse well into Lemmy (and I supposed to any threadiverse software) but not all Lemmy fist level comment reach the twittoverse. Deeper answers might fediverse or not fediverse depending on too many factors for us to expect too see them.

If you want to have a rich conversations, and interact fully back to people answering you, you better have also a threadiverse account.

And a rule of thumb to ensure federation of a community to your instance, whether you’re also on the threadiverse or you’re on the twittoverse, is to subscribe to the community before posting anything.
If noone from your instance is subscribe the federation barely exist and you can’t be sure that posts are share between instances.

Here is a community dedicated to the kind of test you’re doing: !testfediverse@jlai.lu

There is not risk of messing up your algorithm. You should upvote almost anything you don’t want to downvote!

It one downvote your pet, tell me. I’ll have a “chat” with them.