There's so many ways to interact with the Fediverse. The most popular, by far, seems to be Mastodon, but Lemmy, Misskey, and Pixelfed are also relatively popular. Kbin used to be popular, but it has apparently been abandoned, and is mostly dead at this point.

I recently learned that Mbin is a thing, checked it out, and it looked really cool! Has anyone used it? How different is it from Lemmy? I hear they have better integration with Mastodon.

What Fediverse services do you actually, regularly use?

For me, it's mostly Lemmy, though I do hop on Mastodon every now and then.

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[–] SheenSquelcher@lemm.ee 1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Forgive my ignorance but i dont see mention of Bluesky? I beleive thats also fediverse?

[–] gon@lemm.ee 1 points 46 minutes ago

It very much is not Fediverse. They use a federated protocol, but not ActivityPub, which is the Fediverse's protocol. They use AT Protocol instead, and they're the only thing using ATP, by the way... That should tell you everything about how "federated" they are.

While there are different servers, there's a dependence on central nodes. The simple existence of central nodes is antithetical to decentralization... So we're really not talking about the same thing at all here, with BlueSky vs the Fediverse.

[–] tetrahedron@programming.dev 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

No, Bluesky is a centralized platform, literally twitter 2.0. The Fediverse's main selling point is the opposite.

[–] SheenSquelcher@lemm.ee 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

But there are different servers, similar to Lemmy?

[–] tetrahedron@programming.dev 2 points 11 hours ago

AT protocol is different than Activity Pub. They do not allow instance control and freedom (you can t really call this federation) , it is not real decentralization if you dont allow users spinning their instances and federate with the rest.