Sorry, I am really new to the idea of the fediverse. So, it is about standartisation for social media protocols so I can interact with users on another side that uses the same standard. Does this mean if I post something on lemmy I can find it on Mastodon, or is it only certain features? I guess I dont understand how this applies to the every day use of there application
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Think that in the background Lemmy and Mastodon uses the same protocol, which means that you can consume content from one to another.
What changes is the ui, where Lemmy organizes the content in a reddit-like experience and Mastodon is closer to Twitter
It’s not a perfect fit, so if you want to use both Lemmy and Mastodon I strongly advice you to have an account in each.
That said, you can follow Lemmy users or communities on Mastodon, likes made on Mastodon to Lemmy posts equate to upvotes here. If you reply to a comment sent from Mastodon, the Mastodon user will see it. But to fully enjoy both, you need 2 accounts.
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kbin user checking in. There’s dozens of us out there.
woah this is crazy
but it feels weird how many accounts i would still need, i just created one on mastodon.social but your post seems to be on mastodon.green which asked me to create a new account. this seems like its kind of against the idea of ActivityPub
@pyzn mastodon.green or .social are just different servers inside Mastodon, there’s no need to have an account in each, accounts from both servers can communitcate between them without any problem. And even reply to your comment on Lemmy. That only happens when you open the original link of the comment and see it on the original server, but there’s not need to do that…
over, from Mastodon.
I started with a lemmy.world account and i was fine with that. Then a couple of weeks ago lemmy.world was down for a day so i made a Mastodon account. It was functional in that i could see the posts about the outage but i don’t care for the layout so I made a lemm.ee account as a backup. They all show me the same stuff.
I think most things are the same just presented in a different format. However, for those using Lemmy apps, they don’t seem to work with kbin, so there are differences.
My understanding is that any service that uses ActivityPub can see everything from every other service, unless the developers choose not to show it. As for whether Lemmy’s developers choose to show stuff from Mastodon, I’m not really sure.
But arent other services just structured to differently? Like if we have upvotes on lemmy how could they translate to favourites on mastodon.social as a metrik?
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It all uses the ActivityPub protocol, so interoperability depends on what end points are used. In this case, favorites on Mastodon and upvotes on Lemmy use the same one as far as I understand it, so they are compatible. If you see a post from a Mastodon user on Lemmy and upvote it, it should translate to a favorite on their end.
I don’t really know the details of how they would translate from app to app, but I do know that ActivityPub is specifically designed to allow all of its apps to pull the same information. If an app utilizes ActivityPub, it inherently has the capability of displaying all of its components.
If anyone sees that I’m wrong on something here, please feel free to correct me.
They all should be able to speak together, it’s more a question of how each interprets it. I havn’t tested personally but some reports of following lemmy from mastodon results in a firehose of individual comments for a given topic being received.
