So I did figure out that yes, #Mastodon can federate #Lemmy and #Kbin content. The problem is that Mastodon doesn’t know what to do with it, so it (the group) looks like a user that boosts all posts and comments.

I found myself browsing the “federated group” @selfhosted over on https://kbin.social, as I think Kbin has a nicer UX for it.

I didn’t really want to create a separate account for group stuff, but that might be what we do in the short term. 🤔

  • @ThorrJo
    1•1 year ago

    Most versions of Mastodon strip all formatting after its developer Gargron made an Executive Decision™.

    • Mike Kasprzak 🦖OP
      1•1 year ago

      @ThorrJo @selfhosted That’s what I thought too. Seeing some of the discrepancies across Lemmy and KBin made me curious to try it. Many instances run the Mastodon Glitch branch for this reason (I don’t, as I’m treating my server as a research project, and IMO the stock experience is more important).

      That said, I’ve heard folks parroting that some form of markdown is coming to mainline Mastodon, though I haven’t seen an announcement. I’m assuming Rocko simply said he wasn’t against it anymore.