This is what makes the Fediverse so frustrating, been using: #Kbin #FireFish #Mastodon #Friendica #IceShrimp #Lemmy.
And no, they don’t speak to one another / find one another or are able to follow / like / reply to one another as one is told the Fediverse works.
The truth: some speak to some, and it rarely works both ways. Eg. Mastodon can do a lot more interacting with Lemmy, but not the other way around.
And then there are those that defederate from their own kind / federated social network, splintering the Fediverse even further apart.
Have had to either join new servers + delete current accounts, just because the server that was suggested, happened to be a server that others chose to defederate with.
Now with many accounts + many instances, been trying to find the best place to just have one space in the Fediverse + be able to communicate, follow and interact with other Fediverse users.
Maybe it’s this is wrong, but this has been the experience for almost a year now.
If you have been here for a year, you must have been there during the huge influx in June, we came a long way since then.
It is true that similar platforms work best with each other: Lemmy with Kbin and Piefed, Mastodon with IceShrimp, Misskey etc.
I personally use mostly two accounts, one on a Lemmy instance (this one) and another with an IceShrimp instance. And I can talk to everyone on those two “sub universes”. But that’s probably expected as platform developers prefer to focus on one aspect (threads or micro blogging) at a time.
Defederation is a marginal event, especially now that Lemmy and Kbin both support instance blocking at the user level.