All the things you mentioned are possible in theory but the tools and infrastructure to do it haven't been created.

Entire Fediverse server applications are incapable of following all these rules, either technologically or by concept.

For example, IIRC, Threads demanded a full public timeline. Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte do have that feature in code. But it's intentionally turned off server-wide by default, and there's a very good reason for this and for just about no serious admins of public servers ever turning it on.

Mastodon, on the contrary, is all about single users following single users. It has no support for groups whatsoever. Mastodon users can follow Lemmy communities, yes. They can reply to posts, but in a very Mastodon way (automatic mentions, they'll probably insert hashtags etc.). Seeing (almost) the entire conversation is the default on Lemmy and extremely tedious and anything but straight-forward on Mastodon. And starting a new thread in a Lemmy community from Mastodon is difficult, nobody knows how to do it right, and whoever tries it will clash with Lemmy's culture.

Stuff like Friendica or Hubzilla is somewhat more general-purpose. It can do both. But I've yet to see a Lemmy user subscribe to a Friendica group or a Hubzilla forum (the opposite does work).

The issue is that fedivers residents are a bunch of tech-literate weirdos and called this bullshit the second the news dropped, and are 100% the type of people who make forks as soon as something like that would actually happen. Piefed being the perfect example, this part of the internet is perfectly fine just picking up their things and making something else (and we love it here for that).

We can generally see all the users on all the federated systems, but none of their old content, a limited number of systems can follow other systems and see new stuff.

I'd really like to see being able to log into pixelfed.social as rumba@lemmy.zip, post images there (and in loops.video) and reference them in my mastodon and lemmy posts.

All the interoperability is threadbare.

sorry for the misinformation

It's not like I can view a Mastodon user's history on Lemny, right?

afaik you can

It's not like I can view a Mastodon user's history on Lemny, right?

Unlike X (formerly Twitter) or Facebook, which remain in business by profiting from consumers’ personal information, the fediverse aims to give users privacy and an ad-free interface.

But if we are going to use it, then it's just media that is produced by society at large as opposed to paid journalists or authors. Meaning Usenet is social media.

Forums and Usenet could be considered proto-social-media perhaps given they were clear precursors to it

I recommend uBlacklist to correct this.

How is the fediverse different from traditional social media?

The fediverse is a decentralized network of social media platforms that freely interact, unlike traditional social media.

I have a bit of a problem with the term "traditional social media".

The earliest popular form of social media was Usenet. The first one I ever used was web forums (run on phpBB or similar software). Those have a lot more "tradition" than Facebook or Twitter or TikTok, so why are they calling the latter three (deviations from the decentralized "tradition" of the Internet) "traditional social media"?! Is it just that they're the first form of social media that the authors of that article ever used?

Meta's Threads is also working toward ActivityPub compatibility, which would significantly expand the fediverse user base.

Um... fuck no, please and thank you!

you’re lucky if you can even finger a user between systems

I'm sure the gals at the blahaj zone are up for it