How well Firefish/Calckey integrates with Mastodon?

sebitoutou@programming.dev to Fediverse@lemmy.world – 11 points –

I wonder what is going to be the future of all of these ActivityPub-based services.

I'd like a real integration within all of them. It would be great if people could interact with any of these systems regardless of the services/instance where they created their account.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we are far from that. My understanding is there are some features that don't federate well. Like even within the same services, take Mastodon for instance, I think the number of "likes"/"favorites" of a given toot are different depending on the instance you are accessing the toot.

Regarding Firefish/Calckey, they keep presenting Firefish as a Mastodon with extra features but I don't know how well the extra features federate. If someone reacts to a post using a particular emoji, how that is going to be interpret by the other apps? I think there are similar issues between applications that considers upvotes/downvotes and applications that only consider upvotes or even worse, none of them.

I don't want to jump from one social network A to another B just because B added some X functionality. And in many cases, the social network B is not a superset of A, as there might be some features in A not existing in B.

And btw, talking about that, I'm starting to see some sort of "aggressivity" from Firefish user's towards Mastodon. The way they present these features is a bit pushy. I'm not a Mastodon fanboy and I wish well for both communities.

For sure I'll give Firefish a try (even though I prefer more text-post than post full of emojis) but as I said before, I don't want to jump from one social network A to another B just because they added a brand new minor feature, specially if A is getting well established and I see more activity there.

What are the features of Firefish that don't federate well with Mastodon? and in the case I use them in my posts, to what level are they integrated into Mastodon? Will my Firefish posts still be visible and discoverable from Mastodon?

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@xepher@calckey.world, can you also point to me how you got to this thread from Firefish? In Mastodon, I searched for @fediverse@lemmy.world and in that profile, that account boosts all the answers taking place in this community.

In Firefish, I searched for the same string @fefiverse@lemmy.world, I got to the profile page of the fediverse community, but I don't get to see any post/boost made by that account.

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I did exactly what you described you did for Firefish. I think it depends if someone on your Firefish instance has subscribed to that Lemmy community before or not. When I opened the @fediverse@lemmy.world profile I saw all the posts and replies listed and just replied to the post from there.

I just confirmed it. Yes, the visualization of a profile (the fediverse community located in lemmy.world in this case), will vary depending on the instance being used to access it. It's really a pity though. Things like that should be transparent.

IMHO, whenever the user searches explicitly for a profile/toot/post/whatever, all relevant data should be fetched as well.