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.
It’s a shame this is being downvoted, because I think these are interesting topics to discuss. A while back I found this article which talks about similar ideas; it’s is from a few years ago but I think makes points that are still valid. It talks about how there is a lot of ambiguity in ActivityPub, and there aren’t really standardized ways for different implementations to interact - a lot of it is ad hoc, and as you pointed out, doesn’t always work well, or may work better in one direction than the other. Hopefully it will become more standardized in the future and remove some of the ambiguity.
It’s been downvotes because it was posted multiple times (misunderstanding/technical error) but I agree. Each of the posts have different replies so it’s a shame we can’t merge them into one excellent thread.