I know this doesn't answer your question but a lot of client apps are open source so you can always request a feature on their GitHub.
Thanks! But also on further reading, realise that not all Fediverse social networks can interact with one another. And this kind of breaks the whole point of the Fediverse, doesn’t it? Mastodon can follow and interact with Lemmy, but Lemmy can’t even find Mastodin users in search, nevermind follow or interact.
So the Fediverse seems to be more fragmented and broken than initially understood. :-/
I personally don't really want the different social networks to interact. They're different formats and serve different purposes, I go to each to view different things. Whenever a post from mastadon shows up on lemmy the formatting is confusing and annoying.
I don't know if that's true. I thought it wasn't. In theory they should work together if they both implement the protoco, maybe it's the clients or the instances that are lagging behind?
Had a look specifically and only some work with some others. Tried to follow a mastodon person on Lemmy, couldn’t even find him, url or name or anything. Lemmy users confirmed it’s a one way thing, with Mastodon being able to do both wats.
Kbin also works both ways, and is also a hybrid of them both, being like reddit and also microblogging. Though it’s quite new still and doesn’t seem to offer keyword filtering or apps at all.
This isn't impossible but due to the way each federated platform is structured it does make it more difficult to fold into a single app. What you're looking for, perhaps inadvertently, is essentially a fediverse browser. In that case you're almost better to use a regular web browser with some plugins that may better enable navigation of each platform, as this ensures you're keeping it to one app.
I say almost because your second point makes that less viable, but in itself this would prove a thorny issue regardless as each platform handles filtering/blocking differently, as you've found. I think the latest version of Lemmy has tried to improve on this, but not every instance has updated due to a mixture of details in how different admins/teams want to approach it.
Also, unfortunately iOS further impedes this, given that many of those interested in the fediverse space tend to lean towards Android, so many of the more flexible apps, e.g. Fedilab are Android only. If there are iOS alternatives, I'm simply not aware of them, nor do they surface on a light search.
Unless someone else knows of something for iOS like what you're after, I think for now the "best" approach for navigating different fediverse platforms in a single app may be via web browser and hoping they have a decent mobile UX. However for the best UX you're probably going to want to use multiple apps for each federated platform and toss'em in a fediverse folder/tag on your phone.
Thanks so much for taking the time to explain and for the information. So if understood correctly, you say a web browser woud be best? But then wouldn’t you still need to have an account on Lemmy / Kbin / Mastodon / Peertube / Pixelfed, as they don’t all talk to one another, and for those that do, they don’t necessarily talk both ways, such as Lemmy and Mastodon.
Been using the Fediverse for a few months now, and wow, surprised at how complex some things are to understand still.
Web browser would be best if you're really determined to keep all browsing to one app, yeah, probably.
You wouldn't necessarily need to make accounts for each one, only if you wanted to more smoothly participate via commenting/posting/etc. As long as the instance isn't kinda private or running a fork that keeps stuff private or something, generally you can view different instances' content without any account creation whatsoever. It's one of the underrated perks of some of this federated stuff, being that it's closer to the open web than corporate platforms.
I can't speak much to Kbin, but I kinda know from experience with Mastodon that it tends to do a better job at talking to other federated platforms than Lemmy, for sure. In which case you can make a Mastodon account on some instance and follow stuff from Peertube/Pixelfed accounts a little more easily, but given their different focuses, the formatting's typically the kicker and so things may not display as neatly as if you went directly to the instance they're posted from.
Nevertheless, if you're seeing the post in Mastodon, there may be some link back to said instance in some way, whether in the post itself or following through from the person's profile. It's not exactly elegant, but again, you typically won't need to have an account on the remote instance/site to view the content (including additional content), which is already sometimes a step above the corporate platforms.
Thanks for the great explanation and taking the time to reply. :-)
And yes, want to be able to like or reply on other instances or federated sites like Peertube or Pixelfed.
Not wanting to post photos or videos necessarily, maybe post something on Mastodon or ask / comment on Lemmy for the communities.
Created accounts now on iceshrimp, mastodon, kbin, friendica and lemmy. Testing to see who can do and speak to what.
Ends up just being overwhelming, everything is so al over the place, and searching or following on other sites don’t always work.
The fediverse sounds a lot more connected than what it is in reality. And now people are defederating from one another because of Threads or because they don’t like the other guys, etc. And some now also want to go private. It’s like the wild west out here. :-o
So might just delete and leave everything altogether…
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