Howdy all. I am a big Mastodon fan and have been trying to get my head around kbin/lemmy for the last couple of days. Decided to do some random interoperability cross-testing from around the Fediverse.
This is in no way definitive, this is mostly just me f'ing around, and I suspect some of this is federation lag too as they all have to populate one another. Servers used were retro.pizza (mastodon), fedia.io (kbin), and infosec.pub (lemmy):
From Mastodon -
- Can see kbin users and their post counts (but not their posts)
- Can see Lemmy users and some of their posts (but not any context, and also not reliably seeing their post counts)
From kbin -
- Can search for and see Mastodon users
- Can't search for Lemmy users
- Can search for Lemmy posts/threads (and can see users through posts/threads/magazines/whatever they're calling it) and fully interact with them
From Lemmy -
- Can search Mastodon users
- Can search kbin users (and see any comments they made, but only on Lemmy posts)
- Can search for kbin posts/threads but results are very hit and miss, cannot interact with them
Does this sound right to you? Do you have any tricks/tips for getting all these doodads and whatchamacallits to talk to one another better?
#Kbin can search and see Mastodon users no problem, following and interacting with them all seems to work ok.
#Bookwyrm cannot search or see kbin users or magazines, you can find Lemmy magazines (haven't tried a user) but not follow them.
You are 100% correct, I totally missed the "People" tab at the top when I was trying to find Mastodon users earlier. I have edited my post to reflect this change