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Lemmy, Mastodon and Kbin are the future of social media.
@twistedtxb @dirtmayor Completely agree. The fact that people from all over the web using different services can engage is amazing (hello from mastodon!)
Wait, does Lemmy federate with Mastodon? How does that work?
On mastodon search for the account @[email protected] it will be this lemmy sub but in mastodon. Commenting on posts in mastodon will also comment on the lemmy thread.
Can you upvote or downvote posts through Mastodon? Or does that have to be done from a Lemmy instance?
@TexasCrowbarMassacre On the Mastodon side of things, we have a like button that's basically an upvote, but there's no equivalent of a downvote. So we can upvote, but not downvote.
This blew my mind. What else can we deep fry...err, I mean link together?
Hmm. I can see that account, but I don't see any posts (in the Mastodon app).
it could be that your instance doesn't have the post (e.g. no one else in the instance is following the account). Fediverse stuff is weird in that regard where it won't fetch them from the other server either, but they will show up going forward if you follow the account.
Ah, so when I subscribe and it shows up as "pending", that's me trying to connect the two?
Still learning, thanks for the help.
Kinda. You're server will not back-populate old posts from someone you just followed. However, you should get all future posts.
If you find a thread on Lemmy and you want to comment on it in Mastodon, but you can't find it normally, you can copy the URL to the thread or comment, paste it in Mastodon search, and then it should force-load that post. Then you can reply and comment on it as normal.
This is so incredibly cool and helpful, thanks so much for pointing this out!
I assume it's through activity pub - that's how pixelfed and mastodon communicate as well.
What I'm not sure of is if beehaw uses activity pub internally or it's just there for fediverse integration.
This seriously blows my mind. You're commenting from Mastodon on a Beehaw thread which I'm reading and replying via Fedia.io. All this interconnection is amazing; it truly embodies the concept of an internet.
We should remind people that we have zero qualms about email which is essentially a federated service. You can be on Gmail, Yahoo, or Bing and trust that your message will be delivered to where you point it.
The only difference being that email is pointed to a particular user on a given instance, and here messages are pointed to magazines/communities.
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I completely agree with this and I think it's because of the legal issues it avoids. I'm not a lawyer, but if I'm not mistaken, the entire fediverse doesn't take a hit if a single server is a bad actor. Whereas sites like Reddit and Twitter need to defend themselves based on the content users generate.