I want this message to show up in my Mastondon
@evehiclefan@mathstodon.xyz
@eeeee
Ah worked this time!
@julian it worked second time, is there anywhere I can look to see error message of why first mention didnt?
@eeeee thanks! Will record for fixing
Good points, and want to add, as credit to @julian , what he's building is complex.
Not many developers could do it. 
@eeeee Absolutely, and @julian has my deepest respect for that. Like I mentioned, the UI for inter-platform interactions is definitely a really tricky problem to solve in an intuitive way, and I don't think any Fediverse platform has managed it yet. (I'm very interested in this because I'm starting to consider similar issues as they relate to the Fediverse implementation in Forgejo.)
@julian sorry to multi-post but I forgot to say: although I can find your post from my Mastodon account and reply to it, I still haven't worked out how I would do the reverse from here. In fact I'm not sure if I can follow a Mastodon account (or perhaps more usefully, a Discourse or Lemmy topic or even a topic or account on a different NodeBB instance) from a NodeBB account at all, is that possible yet?
@caesar the Discourse link you posted raises another issue.
Its a similar thread to this one, but it has additional posters, and any edits made in my posts arent reflected.
So these conversations arent fully federated when there are some posts in that thread missing from this one.
Out of interest @Omega, did you start your post on Discourse or on this site?
As an example as the disconnect between the thread on Nodebb and Discourse, @bumblefudge@socialhub.activitypub.rocks 's post is missing from nodebb sites thread.
And conversley some of Ceasars posts are in this thread but not that one.
Isnt the goal to duplicate all posts in all places so they stay in sync?
@eeeee I am native posting only
Omega, From your descriptive posts I thought you were a writer, but now a Physicist!
Many talents 
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@eeeee I always get a Schrödinger's cat vibe off these fediverse topics am I the only one?
Personally I think the word
Federated is being used as if it was the word disseminated, which to me is more apt descriptively
“your post is disseminated across multiple platforms at once… this is the fediverse… and you are like a sun and each post a ray of light that eventually reaches planets... soon disparate planetary religions spring up worshipping your name spanning light years across the galaxies”
Maybe not the last bit 
Here is an edite version of the wiki entry:
The fediverse is a collection of social networks that can communicate with each other using a common protocol. Users of different websites can send and receive status updates, multimedia files and other data across the network.
How about... the fediverse is like building a bunch of interstates between big websites
@omega said in Explaining the fediverse is a hard problem.:
@eeeee I always get a Schrödinger's cat vibe off these fediverse topics am I the only one?
Absolutely, you never know if fediverse posts did or didnt propegate, until they are observed! Haha
Hmmm @sortekanin@socialhub.activitypub.rocks is it possible for whatever reason your posts no. 6 and no. 10 in this topic, were not originally available for me to read yesterday/ but I am reading them today, one was a reply to me (but saw no notification) other than that maybe I scrolled past too fast and missed them 
@eeeee Ha ha maybe you answered my last post as I was writing it!
One thing that hasnt really been tested yet, is volumes, and the data that needs to be shared if say contribitors are on different networks.
On your physics theme then the data share is potentially exponential as more people join the conversation.
A thread with 100 different origin posts and the updates required to keep everyone in sync