@jarrod yeah this seems unsolvable to me, sadly. I think replies are kind of a mess on the web right now with no good answers. Webmentions kind of suck, ActivityPub seems only marginally better.
@jsonbecker I find IndieWeb hella confusing, and I am more sophisticated than 99.9% of social media/blog users. Webmentions are part of that confusion @jarrod
@odd How do you keep them separate? Only follow users on their native platform? I only have/use Micro.blog for all my Fediconversing, so that’d be tricky.
@MitchW @jsonbecker I’m optimistic that it’s a short-term problem. Maybe once this ActivityPub stuff gets ironed out (hopefully with all the platforms talking to each other) people will settle on their One True Platform it’ll become a non-issue.
@jarrod Yes, and I have followed people from Micro.Blog over on Mastodon, (their social.lol account or something else). So if either are having downtime, I can use the other. Everyone isn’t at both places of course…
@jarrod I share your optimism. I’d love to get BlueSky into the Fediverse in some fashion. I expect the BlueSky dev/management team would be all in on that, but Mastodon users might resist.
As I just said elsewhere, some weeks ago @jsonbecker convinced me to lean in harder on micro.blog and not fuss so much about posting manually to other platforms.
I’d love it if the blue Facebook app would open up to the world once again. I know that seems unlikely now, but the tech industry has seen pivots like that before; Microsoft has done so at least twice.
@MitchW Micro.blog has done some really interesting work with Bluesky that makes it seem almost like a regular Fediverse citizen. I have an account there that gets crossposts automatically from Micro.blog. MB pulls in replies to those crossposts as native mentions and I can even reply to them from MB and it’ll put those back on Bluesky. So I never go into Bluesky or make replies with my account there, but I can still interact with people who reply to my posts there.
Facebook federating seems like a non-starter. Billions of users with posts dating back two decades? I can’t even imagine how you’d retrofit ActivityPub into that. But what do I know?
@jarrod All I ask from Facebook is that they provide some easy way to automatically share posts from micro.blog to there, same as I can do with Tumblr.
Well, that’s not everything. I’d also like to be able to read my Facebook comments here. But even the first thing would make me happy.
@MitchW That would be nice. Making it easy for getting things in seems like it’d be in their best interest.