@youshouldknow YSK that you can post to Lemmy from Mastodon, and Mastodon users can interact in Lemmy threads. This is a Mastodon account.
Seems like there’s a new wave of Lemmy users, thought they may find that interesting! It can also work with other Fediverse software as well. It’s all interconnectable. It’s not perfect and there’s some quirks due to Lemmy being a forum and Mastodon being a microblog. But you can ping Mastodon users in threads, and they can reply seamlessly.
Hopefully, we can see cross-service APIs and federation become common. Having Matrix, Lemmy, Mastodon, and other platforms being able to talk with each other would be terrific. Especially if we can import/export our profiles at will, to migrate across services if we want to experiment or escape an enshitffied place.
Will this reply show up in Mastodon??
Ah, wow. It does!
Forgive my ignorance but what is a Mastodon? I only ever heard it to be used as a animal
It’s a federated Twitter alternative. It’s existed for a while - the initial release was in 2016, but obviously with all the Musk-related nonsense in the past few years, it’s grown a lot.
It’s a federated service like Lemmy, but built to be a Twitter clone instead of reddit.
I would be so hyped to see a true dual Lemmy mastodon service that fully allows you to browse and post to both Lemmy and mastodon style feeds. Currently even kbin is really more focused on the Lemmy / piefed end and the microblogging function still requires the posts to be under a magazine meaning masto posts aren’t really browseable and they’re not really fully interact able from both ends. I feel like a service fully compatible with both formats would give a broader reach that would really allow fedi to grow. You’d be able interact with like half of fedi at the same time which would make it feel so much bigger and more comparable in scope to traditional social media.
Ok, so Mastodon can post to lemmy, does this also work the other way around? And could I follow persons on mastodon somehow woth my Lemmy account? Does this show up as a small community?
not with lemmy, but with mbin
I think the way Lemmy / PieFed are set up you can’t inherently “follow” someone like a feed. PieFed being an article posting site (?) Like Lemmy they support each other right away. So posts on that platform while written in another programming language, still mesh and show.
No. Lemmy doesn’t support following people. Best you can do is mention them and they’ll get your ping. Or DM them.
You can followe them from a mastodon account tho.
Example response from PieFed
I just wish the tags used on Mastodon didn’t end up in the body text when they end up on Lemmy. It can add a helluva lot of clutter when they add a thousand of those fuckers.
I would also like it if their posts didn’t start with tagging everyone in the thread.
It always looks funny tho. :D
I’ve tried explaining the fed to my friends and family like “it’s like insta and FB and xitter and reddit all got to talk to one another and there’s different organizations like email has”. I’m not sure they get it much better.
I just explain but starting how you can email gmail from Outlook and such ( familiar concept). Then tell them you could email a Facebook account using
username@facebook.com(this shows they were open to it at some point), that it was a default state of things because they wanted you connected. But then they realized they can make you sign up to their own website and make more money, so now we need account for everything. But imagine you didn’t, you could access different contents in the UI/format you want. You don’t need to share screenshots of different social media (shows why it’s useful), you could just follow different people from different websites.So far this explanation has worked. I haven’t converted anyone, but they understand. Sometimes they try to install and see, then say “the things I want are not here” because we don’t have all the niche
I’ve converted no one. But I get the most tempted looks when I say: there are no ads, and when you search for anime, noone is adding that to their secret database of your likes
Especially when you try to expliain that you can send stuff from mastodon to lemmy, but not lemmy to mastodon, unless it’s just tagging a user, and then it’s only on certain platforms.
We all play together, but we don’t all play the same way and it’s not always nice.
But can you post from lemmy to Mastodon?
I’m not asking if it would make sense, I just feel left out cause of the one sided posting ability
You can follow lemmy users and communities with a mastodon account.
YSK that the first line will be the title of your post. It looks better on Lemmy/PieFed if you mention the community in the second line or further down.
Better yet, leave the mentions and hash tags at the bottom of the text. Declutter my reading, please.
Yes, the title looks fine here.
on piefed you can add tags to a post and they’ll show up in mastodon
You should give an explanation on how to do it
@dnub On Mastodon simply tag the community like it’s a user. For example (at)youshouldknow(at)lemmy.world.
On Lemmy you can’t post to Mastodon really but you can mention a Mastodon user and they will get a notification. You can also message them.
Edit: Like I said some weirdness. This reply shows up on Piefed but not Lemmy.
Gonna test this.
Hey @wolfe@furry.engineer, did you get a notification?
@Toldry yes, but the @ isn’t a link lol
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It does show up on lemmy, but sometimes it takes a while afaik.
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Does this mean lemmy users can’t have the same name as communities? I’d just never noticed.
Actually in Lemmy you can. And yes it can cause issues. Some software handles this but it apparently (used to? Still does?) causes issues with Mastodon.
Guess I’m on Mastodon now…
Look, you’re famous!
Yeah, that’s the wonder of the Fediverse. One network that can be interacted with by many tools and platforms.
I know mastodon posts/replies in lemmy when I see it starts the post by mentioning the community or author of the post haha.
The beauty of interoperability. Thank you ActivityPub.
Can you post new threads from Mastodon, or only comment to existing threads?
Both! If you notice this thread was made by a Mastodon account.
Thanks - how would I do that? How to choose the community from Mastodon?
Search for it. It looks like a user. You have to follow that user then make a post mentioning it. It should post to the community.
That makes sense. I’ll try next time. Thanks!
@Ascendor Geht auch mit snac. Und Honk. Unlängst ausprobiert.
