Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit?

• Terminus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Null_Ritual@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank you! So wait though, I can see Mastodon posts here?

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    • Deebster@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not using Lemmy, but there are other options that can do both thread/Reddit style and microblog/Twitter style like mbin. Personally, I find them so different that I’m happy to stick with different accounts on different sites.

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      • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not using Lemmy

        I think if you’re looking at a piefed or mbin/kbin community (magazine?) from lemmy you might be able to see replies from mastodon users through the magic of federation (mastodon —> piefed or mbin/kbin —> lemmy), and the other way around, even if mastodon and lemmy can’t directly federate with each other…

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• gkaklas@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Each server has its own users and communities (but they still all talk and subscribe to each other!)

  Usually I see usernames written in the form @user@lemmy.zip, while communities !InterestingSubject@lemmy.zip

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  • Null_Ritual@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks I am still trying to differentiate stuff

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• PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It sounds like you’re talking about communities versus user. In the same way Reddit had u/xxxx for users, and r/xxxx for subreddits, its u/xxxx for users and c/xxxx for communities (our subreddit equivalent.)

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• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Okay, so Lemmy is federated meaning anyone can host their own server and connect with others doing the same. Most of us choose to register with one someone else has already made and maintains. I chose sh.itjust.works, you chose lemmy.zip, and this specific community we’re commenting on happens to be posted on lemmy.world.

  But federation means each instance “server” of Lemmy share everything between each other.

  Is that what you’re asking?

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  • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The obvious example of lemmy-like federation is email.

    There’s lots of email servers, but all of them can send emails to each other (unless blacklisted, which would be the equivalent of defederation), and their users can read emails regardless of which server the sender has their account on.

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