I’m glad this community is here because I feel very stupid. I’ve seen videos likening the fediverse to email and phone networks. Some of what I’ve seen implies that not only are lemmy instances connected but lemmy instances can also be connected with mastodon, peertube, and others. Is this true? How to I connect to other instances or even other platforms?
If you want your posts to be seen on Mastodon, you’re supposed to tag the instance in your post/comment. Though I’m not sure what the proper way to tag them is; I’ve only seen like 2 posts actually showing this off.
The other part of it is that you can have an account on Lemmy.World and still see and post to other instances on Lemmy. Like, I’m on Yiffit.net seeing this post and making this comment to Lemmy.World without having to log into my Lemmy.World account.
I don’t know how many, if any, other federated/activitypub things are integrated with Lemmy. They could be, supposedly, but it has to be programmed into the thing you’re using. It doesn’t just connect up automatically just because it uses the same underlying bedrock. Example: BlueSky is supposed to be a federated product, but it doesn’t integrate into other fediverse things AFAIK.
Supplementary question: what’s the difference with kbin in this regard? Or is it dead.
Lemmy was closer to reddit than Kbin was. Lemmy always had more users and users were more spread out. Kbin basically had like 70% of the users on one instance, the biggest instance is shutting down, there is now only one instance accepting new signups. So yea, seems dead.
I’m not on lemmy.world but I can see and reply to content there.
You can view and post on almost any other server.
Like how Reddit posts can link to but are different from YouTube videos, Lemmy posts can reference other services, but they don’t directly interact.
Some of the content you are seeing is likely posted from “other platforms”
I’m not on your instance
I’ve been wondering about this myself at times. Currently I have an account on Mastodon, an account on Pixelfed, an account on Friendica etc.
I follow these accounts across the federated services and I can for example boost my Pixelfed pictures for my Mastodon community to see.
We had a similar thread recently here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/27868444
You are registered on a Lemmy instance and from those you can only follow communities (that are structured the way Lemmy communities are, but the backend doesn’t need to actually be Lemmy), not people. Mastodon, PeerTube etc. are places where people post to their own profiles, so you can’t follow those from Lemmy, you need to create an account on e.g. Mastodon to do that. You can combine both worlds with some backends (piefed, mbin, friendica).
Cool, so I probably want mastodon and lemmy accounts, which I already have. But I’ll try to avoid making new accounts if they aren’t necessary. Are there any worthwhile sites that are compatible with lemmy?
As I wrote, try looking for a piefed, mbin or friendica instance you like.
The account is not transferable at all the federated part is you accessing other platforms data from your account. Like email your account is very much tied to the server you setup with.
What we need is something like openid like service to just store profile information like subs and creds and other servers to handle the data like pots and comments.
Something like that would make it even more complicated like a uri of a comment would be bob@Idserver@PostedViaDataserver. You you would just login as bob@Idserver from any data server.
Thank you for the info.
