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I agree in a lot of ways. Lemmy does feel very beta at times. Mastodon does feel much more finished, except for the fact that favorites and boosts don't federate properly a lot of the time.
But this specifically feels perfectly fine to me. The fact that they're interoperable at all is more than I'd expect. Lemmy and Mastodon are so different in how they show content that I can't think of a much better way to do it (other than maybe having communities boost only posts and not comments when seen from mastodon).
How do you think they should be reworked to work better with each other?
Only somewhat. Lemmy Communities show up as users when viewed from mastodon, that boost every single post and comment in the community (so browsing it is near impossible, and there is no sorting). Mastodon users can interact with posts (but can't downvote), and they can post by @-ing the community.
You can't follow mastodon users or view mastodon posts from Lemmy. I heard kbin had some functionality to do with this tho
This works most of the time, but not all of the time. Even in official apple apps some menus don't let you swipe from the left to go back.
I use gesture navigation on Android. It has some upsides and downsides compared to iOS, but it works 100% of the time, no exceptions.
I think you can paste the permalink into the searchbar and that would show you the original post that you can interact with
I would hate such a change. I can't see emoji reactions ever being better than seeing a single number for vote count.
Reddit did kinda have their own emoji reactions, but they locked them behind a paywall, and called them awards. I don't think anyone liked them, even if it wasn't for the money. They cluttered the UI, they were annoying, even Reddit didn't like them, since they're removing them now.
Now imagine that but instead of a few people who paid Reddit for some reason, everyone can do it, for free. Thousands of emoji reactions per post.
Emoji reactions work for chat platforms since only a few people see each chat, but after a few hundred people see the post it becomes meaningless emoji spam (see discord announcement channels)
If anyone wants to leave Twitter, but there's still people that you want to see, I recommend Squawker. You can't interact or post, but you can follow people and you don't need an account.
I don't see anything wrong with mod bots. I don't advocate their use I an 'authoritarian role', but they can be used for things like preventing duplicate posts, making posts fit guidelines, removing spam, etc. They're just a tool to make moderation easier, it doesn't change anything about the way a community is moderated.
What do you mean by the built in search tool to find communities all over Fedi? From what I can tell the search bar only searches communities that are already federated with kbin, so you'd still need to use something like lemmyverse.net/communities for small communities anyways.
And also if you want to have access to a community that hasn't been federated already, I think you need to use a different search bar. On Lemmy you can use the same for both.
For me Lemmy is better. The web UI is simpler and easier to understand for me, and I have no use for the microblogging features. And more importantly there are Lemmy apps but no kbin ones. I'm glad there are options for everyone, and hopefully they both get the features that they're missing but the other has!
https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/110696020928017739
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/STATEMENT_23_3674
Sounds like we'll see the effects in March next year. Fingers crossed.
~~I don't think Reddit had a favorite feature either, and it's just local per app. Or at least in my experience favorites never synced between apps.~~ (This is wrong). Local favorites feature would be greatly appreciated!
Unrelated, but would it be possible to make the comment sorting option more visible? It's currently under the three dots menu, even though there seems to be enough space at the top of the screen.