The Future is Federated - issue no.9 
The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 4: Lemmy, PieFed & Mbin)
https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-4-lemmy-piefed-mbin/
with shout-outs to @informapirata @Bro666 @dansup @phanpy @fedidb @vjprema @neblem @FediTips
Congratulations @_elena for this new post.
You always know how to be very clear even when you deal with somewhat complicated topics.
The impressions you reported are very similar to those I have had in these years of using aggregators.
The only difference is that I have never had the problems you had between Friendica and Lemmy. In fact, I tend to prefer using the Lemmy communities with my Friendica account
@_elena Since I am the administrator of three different instances (Mastodon Friendica and Lemmy) I have always been very careful to explore the potential and limitations in the interaction between these three platforms.
From Lemmy, for example, it is still impossible to publish on Friendica Groups (even if theoretically...
), but Friendica manages Lemmy communities beautifully.
Maybe there is a problem with your Friendica instance
In my limited few days' experience, I've found Friendica and Diaspora are virtually seamless, but Friendica and Activity Pub is a bit more hit and miss.
For example when I search for a particular Mastodon account so I can follow it from Friendica, often the first few times I search it only brings up Friendica accounts with similar names, and then I search again and suddenly it works and I can follow the Mastodon account. Still haven't figured that one out.
@fionag11 That's right. In Friendica, if you want to search for a user, you have to enter the full name in the form @username@instance
Otherwise you have to look for the link https://instance/@username
@_elena Hi Elena! Thanks for your post, I’m enjoying your Federation series. I appreciate your efforts in testing federation boundaries between Fediversal software.
I would like to comment on that idea that you state in the article:
These experiments have been further proof to me that it’s a smart strategy to use Mastodon as one’s main Fediverse account, investing time in it - as it communicates really well with other Fediverse projects. It just works.
While it’s true that Mastodon usually integrates better than other software and I can see the pragmatic point for a newcomer user, probably this is because developers mainly check mastodon compatibility and not (or slower) with the rest of the software. And the mastocentricity of the Fediverse may be the responsible for that. Maybe if it was more software-diverse more of them would be compatible by default or more bound to a standard.
Probably you know that, but I don’t sense it in your articles (maybe it’s intentional) and I would like to know if you have an opinion on it.
Again thanks for your work!