It's almost a year since I started actively being on here and my observations so far:
It is actually very opaque to most people how different Fedi software using ActivityPub actually interact with each other
You might think you know what other people on other software see/do but you probably don't! Unless you have an account on other instances using other softwares and actually test things out!
Also, this has massive implications on Fedi safety, if that is something you are actively working on.
(terminology might be wrong: I just did a very quick lookup of it)
@geraineon
unsolicited advice to each and everyone: if you post personal stuff, e.g. about mental health which is simply not everyone to be read, don't post to the home timeline > unlisted posts/posts to the home timeline are perfectly visible via kbin because kbin is a great scraper, so people do not even need to search your profile on your instance to find your unlisted posts
kbin in its current form could be abused by bad people - kbin is sort of fedi's hidden hellgate
@geraineon
lemmy has a search function which leaves much to be desired > moreover, interactions between lemmy instances and microblogging fedi happen to a considerably lesser degree compared to interactions between kbin instances and microblogging fedi > that said, i have not stumbled over unlisted posts mirrored on lemmy so far > but lemmy does display posts to followers, as does mastodon > see e.g. https://hachyderm.io/@rakyat/110716000945480054
this example shows a post from calckey which is visible on lemmy > microbloggers using the *keys should take notice: yes, posts from the *keys are visible via lemmy, although *key users cannot communicate directly with lemmy instances #fediverse#lemmy#kbin#mastodon#misskey#firefish#iceshrimp#sharkey
@testing in this case, there is sorta consent given because you need to tag the lemmy instance for the reply to be federated into lemmy. otherwise, it doesn't
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