The Verge - The fediverse, explained : fediverse

[+] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There's already some funky interoperability that comes from the underlying structure of communities kind of being user accounts, where mastodon users can follow Lemmy communities, and post to communities by mentioning them. But it's not pretty.

If you put the mention at the top like Mastodon defaults it'll look very messy on Lemmy because it will be trying to insert a MD link in the title field. If the mansion and hashtags are placed at the bottom of the post instead though, the post will appear fine on Lemmy.

There are a few guides on how to create posts that are compliant, Basically it's like this:

[Title] separated by blank line [Body]

[Hashtags (optional)

[Community mention] *you can only mention one community and if you want the post to appear on Lemmy that Community should be the first mention. If you want to mention people on Mastodon their mentions must come after.

Biggest drawbacks currently are:

Title will be repeated in the body
Issues mentioning people in addition to the community, also can't post to multiple communities at once.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

To be clear, the Fediverse doesn't mean that everything is interconnected. It means that everything can be interconnected, but most sites will only do a very minimal form of interconnectivity. And that's mainly due to personal choice. You wouldn't want to have Instagram posts on your Reddit feed, and you wouldn't want Tumblr posts on YouTube. You can do that, but why would you?

So most sites will only interconnect with other sites that they deem to be similar enough in content style. Lemmy interconnects with Kbin because both are Reddit clones. Kbin interconnects with Lemmy, but it also interconnects with Mastodon. Apparently the developer of Kbin thought that Mastodon is similar enough in content style that people would appreciate having Mastodon posts appear on Kbin. And this happens for all the other sites. The Fediverse is less like a tightly connected network, and more like a loose connection of sites that could operate together, if they ever chose to do so. Like a federation, if you will

Basically, if you're on Lemmy (which you are), you're only going to see Reddit-like content

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You probably have seen posts in Lemmy communities from a mastadon user without realizing it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

lemmy is incapable of the 'microblog' part of the fediverse of which mastodon only uses. . there are other server apps, like kbin that allow you access to both.

i picked mbin precisely for this reason. plus it didnt look like someone forgot the css.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

From what I understand, there are different content types in activity pub. Lemmy forces on viewing community groups, Masto focuses on individuals. Lemmy would need to build support for following an individual.

They underlying technology supports it, people just have to build a user experience for it, and that hasn’t been done yet.

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