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Microsoft DevBlogs now federated
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this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2024
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Yes, you can use Lemmy from Mastodon. Read my comment again - you can't use Mastodon from Lemmy... unless you can tell me where in Lemmy I can click on and follow Mastodon accounts? That's why, in the Wordpress screenshot, Lemmy isn't supported - no-one has a Lemmy feed for the posts to appear in. All the supported services have a timeline feed for the post to appear in. Lemmy doesn't.
You can't follow Lemmy users on Lemmy either. I actually think the Lemmy developers are planning on improving how Lemmy federates with other services, but they just have other stuff to focus on and aren't as well funded as Mastodon.
However, you can follow Lemmy users on Mastodon. It's also possible to follow Mastodon groups on Lemmy
Yes correct, which was my point to the other person. They claimed that the MS blog isn't federated because it doesn't offer full functionality in Lemmy, but it's Lemmy itself which isn't offering the full functionality in the first place - there's no such thing as following a blog in Lemmy - so it's just a strawman. All the services which support following a blog are able to follow the MS blog, therefore federated with all those services (which doesn't include Lemmy).
I think it just seems disingenuous. Microsoft "federating" AI generated articles and fragmenting the comments leading to ActivityPub looking like a mess when in reality Lemmy and Mastodon and other services do interoperate in ways that are expected.
Maybe a better question for federation would be "can users interact with eachother?"
It's not Microsoft doing anything - this was something a Microsoft employee did in his spare time so that we can follow the blogs from the Fediverse, which is a good thing. :-) He further encouraged people to give feedback if they'd like to see Microsoft officially have a Fediverse presence (via the Feedback link on the blogs home page).
I think I'm just kind of being somewhat extreme about it too. I mean, like, Microsoft has had support forums in the past. (I think even some that have been removed, etc) Lots of stuff like this moved to reddit, but I could see it possibly being successful with federation today.
(There were reasons it failed, like, bad UI, miserable account control, differences in how answers were displayed, etc)
Exactly! That's why I started the MAUI Community here. We used to have a thriving and vibrant Xamarin forum, then Microsoft shut it down and started what was supposed to be a new, more general one on one of their own domains, but all it achieved was it killed the community that we had. So Lemmy is quite similar to a forum (just lacks the ability to have a sub-topics hierarchy like the Xamarin forum had), so here I am trying to re-establish the Xamarin (now MAUI) community that we used to have. :-)