Microsoft DevBlogs has just been federated and can be followed at @msftdevblogs@dotnet.social.
Thanks to @mapache@hachyderm.io!
Microsoft DevBlogs has just been federated and can be followed at @msftdevblogs@dotnet.social.
Thanks to @mapache@hachyderm.io!
Yes correct, which was my point to the other person. They claimed that the MS blog isn’t federated because it doesn’t offer full functionality in Lemmy, but it’s Lemmy itself which isn’t offering the full functionality in the first place - there’s no such thing as following a blog in Lemmy - so it’s just a strawman. All the services which support following a blog are able to follow the MS blog, therefore federated with all those services (which doesn’t include Lemmy).
I think it just seems disingenuous. Microsoft “federating” AI generated articles and fragmenting the comments leading to ActivityPub looking like a mess when in reality Lemmy and Mastodon and other services do interoperate in ways that are expected.
Maybe a better question for federation would be “can users interact with eachother?”
It’s not Microsoft doing anything - this was something a Microsoft employee did in his spare time so that we can follow the blogs from the Fediverse, which is a good thing. :-) He further encouraged people to give feedback if they’d like to see Microsoft officially have a Fediverse presence (via the Feedback link on the blogs home page).
I think I’m just kind of being somewhat extreme about it too. I mean, like, Microsoft has had support forums in the past. (I think even some that have been removed, etc) Lots of stuff like this moved to reddit, but I could see it possibly being successful with federation today.
(There were reasons it failed, like, bad UI, miserable account control, differences in how answers were displayed, etc)
Exactly! That’s why I started the MAUI Community here. We used to have a thriving and vibrant Xamarin forum, then Microsoft shut it down and started what was supposed to be a new, more general one on one of their own domains, but all it achieved was it killed the community that we had. So Lemmy is quite similar to a forum (just lacks the ability to have a sub-topics hierarchy like the Xamarin forum had), so here I am trying to re-establish the Xamarin (now MAUI) community that we used to have. :-)