I was a regular on lemmy.world prior to moving to Mbin, and I like how everything’s in one place! I just have to ask, if I were to make an Mbin community (or magazine as they call it here) could users from other platforms join and engage with the content of my community? Thanks!
They can, but they might have trouble discovering it. Other instances won’t become aware of your magazine until one of their users searches for it explicitly, and even then posts won’t be federated until someone subscribes. So you’ve got some advertisement to do.
This is a general problem though which Lemmy suffers from too. Lemmy has this problem less because there’s third-party websites which list all Lemmy communities and you can browse them there. But those don’t support Mbin magazines from what I’ve seen.
One way to overcome this problem that I know of is Lemmy Federate. As I understand it, it tries to subscribe to your magazine from various instances (including big ones) using its own account, so it starts getting federated there.
Oh yes! Look for instance !AskMbin@fedia.io, I was able to post there from Lemmy
Thanks!
I believe so, at least theoretically…
I can access some magazines on Lemmy, such as !jazz@kbin.earth, though I don’t see any posts on Lemm.ee… Could be a matter of time, it can take some time to federate. I think it should be possible, though.
Edit: I can confirm it is now federating! I can’t see older posts, but since I subbed to the mag on Lemm.ee, I can see new activity on the mag.
Oh! That’s great!
Does Mbin federate downvotes, yet?
Are you asking if they show downvotes? If so, yes!
No. It used to be that if someone on a remote server down voted something in Mbin then that vote would not be sent to all the other subscribers on other servers.
Oh, yeah, I haven’t a clue. I can test it out.
It doesn’t look like it.
Ok. So most people won’t be aware of that but in my case the answer to your question is “yes I could join but if there is a similar community hosted on a Lemmy / PieFed instance I’d choose that instead”.
To me, downvotes are not negative - a downvote on a post is equivalent to upvoting every other post. Lacking downvotes reduces the quality signal that causes good stuff to be visible.
Yep. Some responses may be delayed from being seen for a short time while the data federates, but everyone will be able to see & respond.
