Quick lesson for those who aren’t familiar with it. Baraag.net is a loli friendly instance over at Mastodon. Mastodon is basically to Twitter what Lemmy is to Reddit, a federalized social platform. And since it’s federalized, Mastodon and Lemmy users and instances can interact with each other. Or at least they should be able to.

Usually, when you look up a Lemmy instance of Mastodon it looks like this:

Instead, when I try to look up anything hosted on burggit.moe it looks like this:

After messing around a with different accounts and instances I’ve noticed that the problem seems to only come up with Burggit. While Baraag has defederalized from a couple of instances, we aren’t on that list. Nor did we defederalize them, as they are even listed under Linked Instances:

I’ve also tied to look up my own Lemmy accounts through Mastodon and it doesn’t find me:

All in all there seems to be some connection issues and if anyone knows anything about it please share!

Completely unrelated Edit: It feels a lot easier to make posts that contain images on Lemmy, compared to Reddit

  • Kenu@burggit.moe
    8·
    1 year ago

    Don’t take this the wrong way, but Lemmy isn’t really made for interacting with things like Mastodon. Sure, people can interact with it, but it’s very convoluted.

  • dejiko@burggit.moe
    3·
    1 year ago

    You also can’t reach Baraag via Misskey, but you can reach Misskey via Baraag. I think Baraag is just weird.

    • petunia@burggit.moeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s nothing to do with baraag, the problem is that they’re blocked by misskey.io. Been that way for a couple years now.

      The reason why misskey.io appears reachable by baraag is because server-level misskey blocks doesn’t prevent public posts on misskey.io from reaching baraag’s database. Your interactions from baraag that target misskey.io accounts don’t get reflected in misskey.io’s database.

      • dejiko@burggit.moeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I wonder why pawoo and misskey block baraag. I didn’t suspect it was that because sometimes, baraag accounts appear to partially load, but i guess that’s just remnants of stuff in the db from before the block.

          • raman_klogius@burggit.moe
            1·
            1 year ago

            misskey is complaining that baraag users don’t mark NSFW and don’t put content warnings, as @[email protected] (site owner) recently revealed. some users think it’s fair, others are balking at misskey becoming twitter 2.0 and dictating other instances how to behave, fearing they’d next force japanese censorship standards onto baraag.

            • dejiko@burggit.moe
              1·
              1 year ago

              Ha, I was going to come here and link that. Personally I don’t really mind Misskey’s sensitivity standard being somewhat stringent. At least they’re relatively liberal about what content is allowed overall.

    • raman_klogius@burggit.moe
      3·
      1 year ago

      If you go in blind without any favourite artists you can immediately follow, I think you’ll find your artists best by searching hashtags of your interest, then follow those that suit your taste. After that, expand by looking through their followings and their retoots. I managed to grow my followings a lot like this.

  • petunia@burggit.moe
    2·
    1 year ago

    Works fine for me. It takes a moment for baraag servers to catch up with new (to them) fediverse nodes.