I found this instance https://thefedi.forum/world (found here https://nodebb.fediverse.observer/list )

To follow a community, copy the ID of the Fediverse community, and on nodeBB click the magnifying glass on the right side to search and paste in the community ID in there (and delete the exclamation mark, like television@piefed.social)

change the dropdown to search “in categories” and it should show up like this https://thefedi.forum/search?in=categories&amp%3Bterm=television%40piefed.social

Open the community, click “Not Watching” to choose either “Watching” or “Tracking” and then new posts/comments will be synchronized in, and you should be able to join in on the discussions!

    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      So as I understand it, right now it’s still sort of a ‘hunt and peck’ situation. Lemmy and PieFed automatically federate their content with each other (well, to a healthy extent), but don’t happen to be exposed to Mastodon, Mbin, and NodeBB content.

      I hope progress can be made on uniting these, as the communities are all fairly modest in size, putting them well behind other platforms like Reddit, and the despicable “X.”

      • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        5 days ago

        Lemmy and PieFed are both part of the Threadiverse though, whereas things like Mastodon, Loops, and Friendica are not. Since none of the latter have “communities”, e.g. in Mastodon you have to follow “people”, rather than community topics to be discussed by many people.

        These fundamental differences can make it difficult to share content between platforms, even though it can be done. e.g. I think in Mastodon (iirc, I have never used it personally) you have to tag the community name as if it were a person.

        Even between PieFed and Lemmy there is a lot that can be sent out by the former that the latter simply is not capable of receiving properly, like hashtags, polls, user and community flairs, and so on. Likewise some input can be filtered too, e.g. votes prevented on a PieFed community not only based on if someone is banned or not (from either the instance or the community itself) but whether they are a subscribed member of that community, if the community rule is set up that way (e.g. women’s communities where men might not bother reading the rules, say by just seeing something while browsing by All, and attempt e.g. vote manipulation, even/especially unintentionally).

        So anyway, despite all the differences, PieFed and Lemmy at least are operating on roughly the same wavelength, but e.g. Loops is an entirely separate thing.

        • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          Lemmy and PieFed are both part of the Threadiverse though, whereas things like Mastodon, Loops, and Friendica are not. Since none of the latter have “communities”, e.g. in Mastodon you have to follow “people”, rather than community topics to be discussed by many people.

          Okay, but Mastodon does have a general feed I think, similar to the “ALL” stream. Doesn’t it also allow following hashtags, too?

          Even between PieFed and Lemmy there is a lot that can be sent out by the former that the latter simply is not capable of receiving properly, like hashtags, polls, user and community flairs, and so on.

          I think there’s another wrinkle, too, about PF communities not showing up in Lemmy feeds unless a local instance user has subscribed to them.

          • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
            3·
            4 days ago

            You seem more familiar with Mastodon than me:-).

            I think there’s another wrinkle, too, about PF communities not showing up in Lemmy feeds unless a local instance user has subscribed to them.

            Mostly this is just how the Threadiverse is designed to work. PieFed might do differently, but Lemmy has always been this way. That said, it is reportedly about to get worse/better (at the same time) as the choice as to what communities will show up for new instances will now fall under the centralized authority of Lemmy.ml directly - so e.g. anything defederated from it will no longer be considered part of the Threadiverse, at least by default (although that’s easy enough to override by adding the community manually). It is notable though that previously I believe zero communities were added by default, at least automatically (and yet when that update deploys and some do, it will only get more confusing to find out why some instances, decided by Lemmy.ml to not be worthy by their criteria, will not be part of that). It is also far more confusing than I let on here, and in ways that I do not fully know myself, since just because an instance is “aware” of a community does not mean that it is “subscribed” to it.

            There is simply no way that the federated model is anything at all like “just using email”, as people claim. The defederations make it an entirely different thing where instead of having a fully connected graph we have only a partially connected one.