Just when I think I have somewhat of an understanding of the fediverse, there becomes more questions. So, I am the moderator for !dadjokes@lemmy.world and I see many “boosted” posts. Does that occur any time there is a comment on that post from Lemmy, or has someone made another account on Mastadon that is using the same photos from the dadjokes Lemmy community?

    • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Assuming it isn’t a rethoretical question : Mastodon is a micro-blogging platform (A twitter alternative) which was the first “big” platform to use Fediverse/Activity pub to decentralize (I am not sure what was created for mastodon and what was already there).

      And indeed, you can follow lemmy communities from Mastodon (but the UX isn’t great) or post to lemmy from Mastodon