What makes Lemmy part of the Fediverse? Can one follow a Lemmy community from say a Mastodon account and receive post updates from the Lemmy Community when someone posts to the community they are following?
What makes Lemmy part of the Fediverse? Can one follow a Lemmy community from say a Mastodon account and receive post updates from the Lemmy Community when someone posts to the community they are following?
@creatinglake That’s something I don’t get. What is the point of Lemmy if is it connected like this? Doesn’t it make Lemmy a Mastodon client somehow?
what lemmy gives you: 1/ communities where news are aggregated on themes, that you can follow (also from mastodon) 2/ elaborate threading system for the replies 3/ up/down votes for the news and the comments 4/ views based on the above, allowing to look only at the new, the hot, the commented, etc.
it’s not competition. it’s cooperation and complementarity <3
@JoeBidet Not complaining, just trying to understand :).
But then do Mastodon toots appear on Lemmy? Or is it only Lemmy “posts” appearing on Mastodon?
Also how is the threading system more advanced on Lemmy? It’s just a different UI for the same tree of answers, isn’t it?
Not really. Very simply, Lemmy is made to follow groups while Mastodon follows users. Peertube (YouTube alternative) shares videos in playlists (groups) so they’re simple to follow from Lemmy. When friendica (Facebook style) users posts to forums (groups) its basically the same as Lemmy does, but with a different interface. They’re all interoperable since they use the group function.
@coldhotman I see… so it’s a bit like bridges between e.g. Matrix and IRC, right?
Actually it’s apparently not completely interoperable: opening the lemmy link on my browser, I see an answer (from Friendica) that I can’t seem to see from Mastodon…
Like bridges, in the way they connect services yes. Unlike bridges, they don’t need to translate between different protocols - its all ActivityPub.
Lemmy operates on the group standard, Friendica fully supports it. Mastodon don’t. I suspect that’s related to why you can’t see it on some platforms.
Mastodon operates on single user standard, so we can’t subscribe to individual users on Lemmy.
Friendica has it right, they support both!
@coldhotman @jonasvautherin wow thanks for that review I’m going to check that out
It’s all about your preferred interface. I find the topic-centric UI of Lemmy to be the best on the fediverse, and that’s why I’m primarily on here even though I have a Friendica account.
@jonasvautherin @creatinglake Mastodon doesn’t do everything that a platform connected to the Fediverse can do; Lemmy has a lot of features Mastodon doesn’t, and Mastodon has a lot of features Lemmy doesn’t. For example, as far as I know Mastodon users can’t create original posts to Lemmy communities, nor downvote posts on the site.
The beauty of the Fediverse is that you can create different platforms for different purposes - Twitter-like microblogs, Reddit-like link forums, photo sharing, video sharing… if you have an account on one of them, that perhaps represents your preferred set of features, you can still keep up with activity on the others using their analogous features. And as Joe Bidet said while I was typing this: it’s about cooperation not competition.
Exactly–and what I am suggesting is that it would be awesome to have one Fediverse account and one Fediverse feed do collect streams from all of the fediverse spaces we engage with…so we could aggregate posts/notifications from Mastodon, Pixelfed, and Lemmy communities (I think different communities is the most powerful here) into a single Fediverse Feed.