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:
You can also accidentally post to a Lemmy community by tagging it in your Mastodon post. Hi from Lemmy!
I was wondering why they were explaining Lemmy while on Lemmy 🤣
@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…)
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!
I wonder if it’s possible to post to Misskey from here. Artists seem to want to flock to there.
It’s tricky because Lemmy doesn’t support following people directly.
I think you can @ people on Mastodon/Misskey/Firefish by
@user@instance.tldand they will see it, and I assume if you reply to a post or comment made by them (since they can post/comment here) they can interact with it normally.No idea if using hashtags on Lemmy will populate people’s Mastodon feed with those posts, but I assume… not?
Yeah I tried the hashtags-in-a-Lemmy-reply thing once for science, they just show up as plain text on Mastodon.
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
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 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.
But Lemmy is more a reddit alternative instead of a reddit clone, if we want to get down on the nitty gritty of it.
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!
@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.
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…
You can check the poster’s instance, but it’s obviously not something you easily notice. It’s pretty easy to tell if it has a bunch of @mentions and hashtags
There are loads of other apps you can interact with too, check out fediverse.party
Whoa. Didn’t know this was possible, although I only use Lemmy. Might have to check it out. I wish we could figure out how to have a global account though.
