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The neat thing about federated social media is you don't have to federate with tankies even if you use their software. kbin appears to have some trouble working with Mastodon. My experience so far is boosts and replies on Mastodon are the #1 driver of new signups to the Lemmy instance I'm on, so it matters.

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Kbin works better with mastodon, but the software is also newer, and the main instance is run by the single dev. They are currently behind cloudflare which disturbs federation.

I'm basing that on this: https://pawb.social/comment/20112

Which seems to be more a fundamental implementation issue than a CDN issue. I don't think they're talking about the main instance.

I don't really understand what they are saying.

> and posts from Mastodon to Kbin didn’t work either (they were all classified as microblog).

The beginning seems to contradict the end?

You don't have to, but bye joining and supporting the platform you're joining and supporting the developers.

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