the same way it makes sense for Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed to only show posts made on a community.
To be fair, that’s not how Mbin works. Its communities also capture microblog posts that weren’t originally posted to a community, based on the community’s configured hashtags.
That’s nice of Mbin, I usually recommend it to people looking to have the two formats in one, but the majority of the Threadiverse users seem to prefer Lemmy or Piefed
It make sense for PixelFed to only display pictures, the same way it makes sense for Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed to only show posts made on a community.
Using ActivityPub doesn’t mean you can’t have different formats and platforms.
To be fair, that’s not how Mbin works. Its communities also capture microblog posts that weren’t originally posted to a community, based on the community’s configured hashtags.
That’s nice of Mbin, I usually recommend it to people looking to have the two formats in one, but the majority of the Threadiverse users seem to prefer Lemmy or Piefed