@ticho @mdiluz I'm not well versed with Matrix🥲. But...

@ticho @mdiluz
I'm not well versed with Matrix🥲.
But afaik, fediverse protocols are made so that any account can be used, discovered and interacted with any app.🤔
Am I missing something?
Feel free to correct me

Like 20 Sep 2023 at 9:56 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mstdn.social

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ticho

@techgeeklife @mdiluz Let's say that as (at)ticho(at)mastodon.online, I want to post something longer, so I'd like to use Writefreely. I need to have an account on some Writefreely instance, I can't do it with my Mastodon account.

Yes, I could boost my Writefreely post with my Mastodon account, but that is an ugly kludge that harms discoverability, and shatters community (those interested now have two accounts to follow).

So people make these "twitter threads" instead, which is amazingly ugly.

20 Sep 2023 at 10:02 | Open on mastodon.online

ticho

@techgeeklife @mdiluz Same with Pixelfed, which should be used to share photos, or even whole photo albums or "stories", to use Instagram lingo.

Instead, most people don't bother, and just attach photos to their Mastodon posts. And whenever I do a post with several photos, I feel guilty because I'm misusing the service, and adding to their hosting costs. At least whoever is hosting a Pixelfed instance is doing so already expecting having to host a lot of images and budgeting accordingly.

20 Sep 2023 at 10:06 | Open on mastodon.online

Marc

@ticho @techgeeklife yeah tbf I forgot the alt-text here and really should have added it, that's my bad.

Though now it'll notify some 400 people if I edit it. Good ol' federation.

20 Sep 2023 at 14:10 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

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@ticho there are plenty of instances with longer character limits like mine for example, you don't necessarily have to create an account on a different service to share a longer post

20 Sep 2023 at 17:25 | Open on wetdry.world