Rimu

There was a really good discussion recently which will give you some ideas - see https://piefed.social/post/436507?sort=top

Another thing on the 2025 roadmap - currently the topics are under control of the instance admin but soon any account will be able to create a topic and add communities to it. People will be able to join and leave topics, just like they currently do for communities.

snap!

PieFed dev here.

PieFed is closer to Lemmy, yeah. Microblogs (i.e. the ability to follow mastodon profiles and have their posts show up in your timeline) are on the roadmap for this year.

Currently, Mastodon users can follow Piefed accounts and the posts from PieFed will show up in the Mastodon user’s timeline. Those posts, viewed in mastodon, can be replied to there and the the reply will show up in PieFed. But not the other way around.

all the apps interconnecting

Evangelists say this but that’s not actually what happens in practice. It might one day. ActivityPub is not a protocol, it’s the concept of a protocol. Each platform uses AP slightly differently so there are subtle and big incompatibilities everywhere.

There are two main islands of interoperability. There’s Mastodon and friends (Pixelfed, Misskey, Akomma, etc) then there’s Lemmy and friends (Mbin, PieFed).

Mbin and Friendica do the best at federating with everything but they have shortcomings in other ways.

Just try stuff and explore, until you find a set of compromises you can live with. Take your time. I have a Mastodon account and a PieFed account.

AppleScript really is amazing and I’m surprised Apple doesn’t publicize it more. There’s nothing like it.