Hello, some people have told me that it is possible to see lemmy posts from mastodon. To me it makes a lot of sense to have a single app for whole fediverse. However, mastodon is not doing a good job at this.

Each time I look at my mastodon home feed, it is spammed with completely random posts from lemmy which do not even show up in the organised view wefwef/memmy provide. Is there any way how to take care of this?

For lemmy I have found wefwef and memmy to be actually quite good. Interface is simple and easy to use, posts look organised. On mastodon it just feels far worse, especially with lemmy connected.

Are there any alternatives to the official mastodon app that would allow better integration with lemmy? To me it seems logical to have a single app for both platforms as they use the same principle.

  • samokosik@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I get your point. I see the way of posting is quite different. mastodon has simpler posts.

    So if there was a feature to interact via one app with both platforms, it would make more sense to approach this from the lemmy perspective

    To be honest, I do not even know what kbin is

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Simply merging the two feeds doesn’t make sense. But there are, I’d say, more than one level of integration, all of which are useful.

      1. Single app that allows you to sign in to both platforms with two accounts. Both platforms are presented in separate views, but you only have one app that also manages all of the peripheral preferences like theme, notifications etc.
      2. Single app that partially fuses the two platforms without simply providing two completely different views.
      • EG … all feeds of communities/magazines can be listed under “groups”, all users under “people”, and all notifications from both platforms (including “DMs”) under one list/feed
      1. Some special aggregation service that you only need to create one account for but that provides you access to multiple platforms with proxy accounts. IF such a thing were to exist, there’d probably a whole range of possible hacks .
    • cerevant@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Kbin is a Lemmy clone that has a mastodon client built in. It uses slightly different terminology (e.g. magazines instead of communities) but is otherwise functionally the same.

      • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        So I’ve since gathered that this isn’t true. As I understand, and I could be wrong, Kbin doesn’t provide a feed of the people you follow in the same way mastodon etc do. Instead the microblog view is a view of the comments in all the magazines without being organised under posts. It’s like the “comments” view we have here on lemmy but threaded (I asked if we could have the same here: https://lemmy.ml/post/1932250).

        • Kichae@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          Instead the microblog view is a view of the comments in all the magazines without being organised under posts.

          No, that’s absolutely not the case. From the microblog feed, I’m able to find my own posts from Calckey and PixelFed (e.g. https://kbin.social/u/@kichae@pixey.org), neither of which have touched or in any way interacted with n a kbin magazine.

          You can follow users on kbin, but AFAICT you don’t have home or local timelines, only federated/global. Instead, these stream of posts that are not addressed to a Group actor can be mined for hashtags by magazines, and those posts with matching tags get shown in a magazine’s Microblog tab. Any posts that are untagged, or which cannot be assigned to at least one magazine, get dumped into m/random’s Microblog feed.

          Threads are specifically addressed the Group Actors. Comments belong to whatever they replied to. Microblog posts neither address a Group Actor nor are in reply to a thread or thread comment, and so are fundamentally detached from the core threadiverse ecosystem.

          • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
            1·
            1 year ago

            Thanks for the clarification! Appreciate it.

            And yea, I was aware of the m/random feed and it being basically a global feed. I obviously wasn’t clear on what exactly goes in there.

            But, as someone who doesn’t find the global/federated feed useful/interesting (and from polls I’ve seen, this is the same for most people), I don’t think the microblog view would hold any value for me or most people for that matter.

            Is a proper microblog feed on the road map?