Du meinst, dass man sich mit einem Login für beides einloggen kann? Soweit ich weiß, nicht möglich.

Was meinst du mit “verknüpfen”? Du kannst in dein Profil die Namen deiner anderen Konten irgendwo anders im Internet reinschreiben, was genau ist dein erwünschtes Ergebnis?

I see, thanks. Will look into that.

I’ve had this thought before, but have also wondered whether it’s even possible to implement this using ActivityPub, considering that a wiki inherently requires having the same state everywhere, but ActivityPub allows instances to ban and defederate how they like (thus become desynchronized from each other).

When I was new to Mastodon, I followed everyone who might maybe have something interesting to say (e.g. open source projects that I’ve never used but found somewhat interesting).

Right now I have 43 tabs open on my phone most of which are links from Mastodon I haven’t yet gotten around to reading… I think you can see why nowadays I tend to unfollow more things than I newly follow.

You want to join an mbin or piefed instance, they allow both microblogging and posting to lemmy communities.

you probably google for yahoo on bing amirite

I remember reading (though I can’t find the source anymore) that Mastodon “favorites” and Lemmy upvotes are the same thing, but that it is not possible to downvote from Mastodon.

Not a new phenomenon in human nature or on the Internet, by itself. On some wikis (e.g. en.wikipedia.org) there used to be extensive lists of “notorious vandals”, then people realized that this only encouraged them further, now this is more limited, but there still is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse

ffs stop feeding trolls and spammers

That is basically OpenID which has been around for a long time. In principle there is nothing stopping fediverse instances from being OpenID providers or allowing login with an OpenID, not sure anyone has done this yet though.

First of all, can people stop empowering, rewarding and encouraging spammers by starting threads about them?

My understanding is that many people in the US and Canada identify with their ancestry? Lots of Americans think of themselves as “Irish” for example, some of them may actually be immigrants from Ireland, others may have more-or-less distant Irish ancestry, so this is what may be going on here.

Everything posted on the public web is potential AI training data, federation is completely irrelevant to that.

The rest of your questions has the simple answer that a priori there is nothing “stopping” any of that. You should choose an instance whose admins are looking out for things like that and keeping your experience enjoyable, banning spambots or defederating from spambot farms when they are discovered.

What part of the fediverse is “hard” to use?

Lemmy is easier to use than the UBB forum I started to become active on at the age of 10 that was the entry point for me being on the Internet at all. Back then we didn’t have Markdown, but BBCode, and I had that figured out after a few weeks.

I think you’re way underestimating young people.

What exactly are the significant features of Pinterest? I am not very familiar with it.

I know that; people who are reading this might not, so I described it in a way everyone could understand.

would confuse me because when I hear “provider” I think ISP before anything else

At least on Lemmy, every post and comment has a colorful button that serves as a link to the original post (i.e. on the poster’s home instance). I just used that button to see this post on your home instance and it seems that there, it is hidden behind the “More” menu and called “Open original URL”.

So that gives you links to the post on all home instances of the users who have already commented in the thread.

I remember for some time following a LibreWolf community that was hosted on Lemmy from my Mastodon account and wondering why all the LibreWolf team was doing was reposting Lemmy comments (some of which I’d already seen on Lemmy). Then I figured out what was going on, now I know a lot more about ActivityPub. :D

“Community” on Mastodon?