I’m starting to find some of the cooler aspects of the wider fediverse.
For instance, Lemmy is a Reddit clone that is picking up some migration after the recent hooha or at Reddit.
The cool thing is that it’s federated (same as mastodon, different instances and everything).
This means that you can subscribe to any community on Lemmy, for instance
https://lemmy.world/c/showerthoughts
through its fediverse address, right here on your mastodon instance:
But Lemmy is more a reddit alternative instead of a reddit clone, if we want to get down on the nitty gritty of it.
It is awesome, But lemmy has still a long way to go in terms of federation, e.g. I can not follow a mastodon user/hashtag from lemmy
If you want a combination of following people and communities, that’s basically the premise of Kbin, if I understand right. Not sure they support hashtags, though.
There are loads of other apps you can interact with too, check out fediverse.party
@showerthoughts This isn’t news to the hardcore of course, but it’s nice to start finding these kind of advanced tricks, once you get used to mastodon.
You start using it purely as a twitter/insta/reddit clone, and then slowly all these extra possibilities open up.
Correct me if I’m wrong please someone, but we still cannot contribute to Mastodon conversations from Lemmy software, right? Though it is on the roadmap for full federation to be implemented eventually?
I’m browsing and answering this from lemmy, sooo…
That would be because this thread is on lemmy.world and not a Mastodon Instance, and made from a lemmy.world account. Mastodon is the topic, but we are not currently on it.
OP is from sigmoid.social according to the profile, and that is a mastodon instance. They tooted on Mastodon with the correct @ mention of the community, resulting in the toot showing up as a post in this lemmy community. We can reply to and interact with this specific post, although I’m not sure how it shows up to a mastodon user, seeing as the front end is quite different. We are unable to interact with Mastodon toots that aren’t tagged in a way that tie them to a Lemmy community and create a correlating post
Oh, interesting. Thank you for the correction.
You can also accidentally post to a Lemmy community by tagging it in your Mastodon post. Hi from Lemmy!
How did the showerthoughts tag result in the lemmy.world instance getting the post? Did all showerthouts communities get it, or is there only 1 community by that name?
On Mastodon, Lemmy communities show up similarly to how a regular Mastodon user does, and can be searched and tagged similarly. So in this case, OP tagged this community specifically rather than any others with the same name.
I believe if you try and tag multiple it only posts to the first community mentioned in your toot, but don’t quote me on that one!
@TeaHands Oops… hi! With great power, comes great responsibility, I guess.
(I suppose this could technically be a shower thought. It’s sort of on topic…)
I wonder if it’s possible to post to Misskey from here. Artists seem to want to flock to there.
I was wondering why they were explaining Lemmy while on Lemmy 🤣
hilarious that you’d post this on Lemmy too!! the fediverse really is incredible
It took me a moment to realize what happened. It’s truly magnificent
Yup, although the downside is that your posting style definitely shows off that you’re a Mastodon user.
Your use of the @ tag, the hashtag are all markers of a more Twitter-like user experience, and it makes you post stand out somewhat oddly for those using one of the lemmy instances. Either way, it’s really neat to be able to cross between those, since I vastly prefer the Lemmy UX as opposed to Mastodon’s, but I can still get a Mastodon’s content!
I like how you are talking as if you are on mastadon when you are on Lemmy. This is going to get confusing isn’t it…
Now I want some kind of a Lemmy tag that shows if a post comes from mastadon, just to understand context…
