I feel like people really get too caught up in the interoperability promise of AP. Like yeah, it’d be neat to use my Mastodon account to make comments on PeerTube videos or Pixelfed images without needing to log into yet another server. But a better solution for that would be federated identity servers.
The real joy of AP federation is that there are dozens (hundreds?) of Mastodon servers; so you can build smaller communities with their own rules and moderation, while still allowing those communities to interconnect.
It’s true here of course too, there’s several popular communities outside the ones on Lemmyworld. So serious answer to the silly question posed in the comic: what can lemmy federated with? Other lemmy instances, also kbin instances.
There’s also the joy of open APIs. I can easily write my own application to interface with the services should the desire or need arise. Nobody can suddenly start charging me a fee to access the network or force me to go through their app or server.
I feel like people really get too caught up in the interoperability promise of AP. Like yeah, it’d be neat to use my Mastodon account to make comments on PeerTube videos or Pixelfed images without needing to log into yet another server. But a better solution for that would be federated identity servers.
The real joy of AP federation is that there are dozens (hundreds?) of Mastodon servers; so you can build smaller communities with their own rules and moderation, while still allowing those communities to interconnect.
It’s true here of course too, there’s several popular communities outside the ones on Lemmyworld. So serious answer to the silly question posed in the comic: what can lemmy federated with? Other lemmy instances, also kbin instances.
There’s also the joy of open APIs. I can easily write my own application to interface with the services should the desire or need arise. Nobody can suddenly start charging me a fee to access the network or force me to go through their app or server.