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So I did figure out that yes, #Mastodon can federate #Lemmy and #Kbin content. The problem is that Mastodon doesn't know what to do with it, so it (the group) looks like a user that boosts all posts and comments.

I found myself browsing the "federated group" @selfhosted over on https://kbin.social, as I think Kbin has a nicer UX for it.

I didn't really want to create a separate account for group stuff, but that might be what we do in the short term. πŸ€”

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@Eddie I would love more interoperability. πŸ˜‰

It makes me wonder if the "thing" to dethrone #Mastodon will be an alternative server/client/app that speaks multiple #Fediverse application protocols? I'm jealous that a #Lemmy server requires a _fraction_ of the RAM that a #KBin or Mastodon server does.

(Obligitory @selfhosted for Lemmy to notice me)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That sounds to be the most attractive way to fit into the fediverse the way it's set up right now. I really like how kbin has support for microblogging and link aggregation however I find it hard to interoperate between different platforms like you can on lemmy/mastodon.

Once a platform nails all of this, I feel like that will be the thing to use in terms of a "master account to rule them all" type deal. That's what I want anyway >:)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a #Lemmy server requires a fraction of the RAM that a #KBin or Mastodon server does.

If you want a personal microblogging server, run Pleroma or Akkoma, they are waaaAAAAAY less resource-intensive than Mastodon. Especially after some truly god-awful database queries were fixed in the last few months. (Load on my database server dropped by approximately a factor of 25x!!)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@ThorrJo @selfhosted lol, I can relate to thay πŸ˜†. I run an event & website that was notorious for its poor performance at the beginning and end of events. A few years ago, with our servers ready to fall over, I noticed a certain query was hogging the database server's CPU. I made the tiniest fix to correctly use indexes, and we instantly went from 400% CPU usage to at most 20% (across 4 cores). πŸ˜…

Though it's been fixed for ~3 years, I still see folks warning others about the slowness. πŸ˜