I noticed many new individuals joining following the Reddit API news. Do you have any questions about this website, Lemmy, or the fediverse?

  • Arindrew
    6·
    2 years ago

    I’m fighting a slight cold, but other than that - today looks like its going to be a great day (could use a little less heat outside though).

    Does Lemmy and Mastodon (and also Friendica, or Peer-Tube, et al) interact at all? I know they are both on the Fediverse, but I don’t exactly know what that enables. Can I post here with a Mastodon account, or post on a Mastodon server with my Lemmy account? Does both being on the Fediverse just allow cross-following, or something more?

    • seahorse [Ohio]MA
      4·
      2 years ago

      Lemmy and mastodon can interact. Can follow lemmy communities from mastodon and comment on Lemmy posts via mastodon. I’ve never tried it the other way around.

    • JackFromWisconsinOPA
      2·
      2 years ago

      Yup, what seahorse said.

      From a Mastodon (or similar) account, you can:

      • comment on any post
      • follow any community
      • follow any user
      • make top level posts by mentioning the community somewhere in the post. The first line becomes the title.
        • Arindrew
          4·
          2 years ago

          Interesting. This will take me a bit to wrap my head around haha

      • Steeltooth493
        2·
        2 years ago

        So if I understand this correctly, if I have a Lemmy account do I also need to create a separate Mastodon account if I want to join Mastodon?

        • JackFromWisconsinOPA
          2·
          2 years ago

          Yes you would need to sign up for a Mastodon account if you wanted to use it. Right now most of the functionality with mastodon is one-way (they can comment on Lemmy posts, but we can’t comment on their posts, unless they post it to a Lemmy community).

        • seahorse [Ohio]MA
          2·
          2 years ago

          Yeah, accounts on the Fediverse aren’t universal. A mastodon account is not the same as a Lemmy account. They’re interoperable though.