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UI differences are a big factor in the success/failure of decentralised federation of diverse platforms and content
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UI differences are a big factor in the success/failure of decentralised federation of diverse platforms and content
And this seems a good example: bridged #mastodon posts onto #BlueSky which has a lower character limit than Mastodon.
So, just like #lemmy posts on mastodon, you don't get the full content of the post (which ends with an abrupt ellipsis here) and have to take a link to the original platform.
However powerful the underlying protocols, this isn't far from screenshots.
You can follow a lemmy community on Mastodon, and even comment from Mastodon.
It's not optimum, you see it like the community retooting each post and then the comments as reply to post but it works
... but it's pretty bad on "both sides" in my opinion.
Especially when all the workarounds to make it barely usable from Mastodon spill over into Lemmy in the form of bots posting weird hashtags or headlines being full of hashtags,...