@Plastic Paragraph I used to run a personal Lemmy instance, but I saw no added value over following and responding in lemmy communities from my Hubzilla account (streams should work likewise). Also, I never had a mastodon account, while following a bunch them from Hubzilla. But I shun micro-blogging discussions anyway, so I rather follow the original poster's RSS feed now, which cleaned up my Hubzilla timeline significantly. Mastodon has too many limitations to handle access controlled macroblog communication, anyway, and I refuse to compensate that with all their manual marking demanding, so I won't actively engage in many conversations, anyway. In fact, I just realize that this is a mastodon conversation...

No experience with pixelfed and Firefish, though. Diaspora works, too, but I disabled the plugin because diaspora is not designed for interoperability.