No. You might see a Mastodon user if they reply to a comment, but even that way round is not easy to do.
Kbin makes it easier to access Mastodon content while still having access to Lemmy content too... But to discover Mastodon content you are probably best making a true Mastodon account.
You'll find different parts of the fediverse have a different focus and feel with varying levels of compatibility depending how much the core focus overlaps.
I've found the trick or to follow hashtags rather than people. But it's a balancing act, sometimes you'll find your stream gets flooded with one topic so you need to refine what you are following.
But worth noting, unlike email the 'view' isn't linked to an individual and an email address, and also broadcasting your IP address (yes and some meta data) as you browse isn't unusual. Every page you visit could be doing this not just Lemmy.
Yes ideally this should be fixed, but in my view it is also a bit of a storm in a teacup.
Might have something to do with the way kbin ranks posts. Top posts are mostly ranked according to boosts rather than upvotes (favourites). I'd guess people are less likely to boost porn since a boost theoretically 'retweets' the post. Actually I'm also not sure if you can boost from Lemmy?
Actually I don't think downvotes federate with kbin (I'm not sure about between Lemmy instances?)
Downvotes are not intrinsically part of the ActivityPub standard.
...but yes upvotes federate just fine!
Depending how the user made the post, this is/was equally true on Reddit. It is a function of the post linking to the image in it's original location ...but this is no worse than browsing images/data in any other way; you always give away some data (like your IP address) when you browse.
Not sure I fully agree. These tool are really ruddy brilliant at certain things (like writing or translating computer code, drafting certain documents) but they are poor at being factually correct. Unless / until they find a way to fact-check themselves I don't see them replacing search, just complementing it.
Sometimes it is, say here: https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse
But you might as well say why isn't Mastodon included? Kbin is a fundamentally different platform and architecture, even if the two are largely compatible (as is Mastodon, to a slightly lesser extent with Lemmy).
It is perfectly reasonable to look at the growth of Lemmy, think of it like quoting use of one flavour of Linux - Linux uptake overall is also interesting, but not the same.
"desktop traffic" sounds like a carefully chosen statistic which would exclude all the users of 3rd party apps. Frankly they were presumably hoping this measure would go up?
True, but I was under the impression that was just a level of noise added. It would be interesting to know if the number of votes needed to reach the front page has dropped (in broad terms) since the API changes. I wouldn't have thought the obfuscation would hide that?
I'd like to know if there are any stats on how many votes it took/now takes to get onto the front page of r/all. This feels like it should be publicly available data...
He may be doing it manually, it wouldn't be the first time. When he first got banned from twitter and started publishing on Mastodon he was doing all the updates by hand for a while.
Long term there are ways and means that it could be done via the html front end, it would probably take a little bit more monitoring but there seem to be plenty of people willing to help him!
Or m/place ...but that's the point with federation it is just another website, it's just https://pixelplace.io/