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I'm a little new to it all, but this bothered me as well. As far as I can tell, the underlying issue is that ActivityPub isn't strict enough about how these things should be implemented, so everyone implements them in similar but slightly incompatible ways.
I think either Lemmy or Mastodon "could" fix it on their ends if they wanted to, but it's not super easy and so far they're deciding not to. I'm actually right in the middle of messing around with kbin right now, which aims to support the best of both worlds (can talk to Lemmy and interoperate well with Lemmy communities but can also follow / message / hear from Mastodon users within a UI that makes sense for Mastodon). It doesn't seem like it's as mature yet as either Mastodon or Lemmy though, but I'm pretty likely to switch to it for exactly this reason, that I'd like to have one account that can talk to both.
I'm also likely to switch to kbin at some point. Personally I take a fairly long-term view of this project, so I'm waiting to see which projects keep going, which fail, and which new ones haven't even popped up yet. I'm aware that devs can pivot and change their minds about things.
I picked lemmy initially more or less at random, and I do like it here, but I'm ultimately going to move to the most functional product. That broader idea of the Fediverse is why I'm here.
Agree I really was intrigued after being comfortable with reddit, but bailing because all my Reddit interactions was from phone, so cut story short tried Mastodon.social>Kbin.social>Misskey.io
Also funkwhale and hubzilla out of curiosity.
So I really interested in tech but there is a lot of wait between some of them agree on some points.
My aim for now to make Kbin community for a game that can directly refer to works of artists directly and for users of Microblogs to see topics and join in on discussions.
From personal experience Mastodon seems fine with threadiverse while Misskey can see posts if forced (and only kbin threads, link ones won't work at least) but commenting gives error. Also Misskey quotes shows as comments for a post/message etc, but not federate to kbin so as loop around don't work as well.
So having followed many artists on Misskey and having some people following me there kinda wish I could interact with magazine(community) directly, but too early for that I guess.
Also Misskey making webp conversion for images is good for storage(you get personal 2 gb and more with time or donations) but Kbin not federate them properly... So that also an headache...
Waiting when Kbin release api so I can remind about this problem again.