I used to say “Welcome to Lemmy” to new joiners, but nowadays quite a few of them join Piefed instance, having a generic term is easier
You can’t follow Mastodon users from Lemmy or Piefed, using “Fedivers” seems too generic
Previous post on the same topic: https://lemmy.zip/post/33451610
It’s still the Fediverse. While things are connected, not everything has to be absolutely connected. There’s still work to be done.
You can waxing poetically it if you want. “Welcome to our little corner of the Fediverse” etc.
Or, if you are really that hung up on this not being the Fediverse, call it the Lemmyverse or smth.
Except that’s the premise new joiners are told when they join the Fediverse “everything is connected”.
Turns out it’s not, you have Mbin/PieFed/Lemmy on one side, then Mastodon/Sharkey/Iceshrimp on another, and the support between both is rudimentary, as people commented below
Not on Mbin at least… I follow plenty of people from Mastodon/Other services from this MBin account and interact with them time from time
Mbin has 812 monthly active users: https://mbin.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Piefed 1800: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Lemmy 37000: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
If 98% of the people can’t do something, I’m going to say all of them can’t do it.
The difference is that all those platforms are absolutely open to sign up in. It’s a case of 98% of people choose not to do something, just like (say) 98% of people choose to stay on reddit so why should lemmy even be a thing, rite?
I have an account on an mbin. I’m not using it only because I’m lazy.
The platforms being open don’t mean much, /r/RedditAlternatives gets a new Reddit alternative every week that’s open for sign up
And probably because microblogging isn’t that important to you, like 98% of the Threadiverse userbase