Submitted 1 day ago by Lemminary@lemmy.world to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
https://vijayprema.com/using-lemmy-from-my-existing-mastodon/
These instructions don’t appear to be documented. Here’s a post from a bit while ago that covers the basic functions of participating on Lemmy via Mastodon mentions.
The fact that The Fediverse apps are compatible with each other is amazing. This in theory means that one can create your own Fediverse app as long as its compliant to the specifications, right? For example, we could create a LinkedIn clone or something similar?
Yes, and there are already lots of different ones that, at least partially, work together:
Don’t know if there is something LinkedIn like though
Is that the same pic I’ve seen posted for like two years now? Are half of those still around? Are many new ones missing?
You can create anything that abides by the spec and it should somewhat work. However, Lemmy won’t know what to do with a stream of Location objects and Mastodon won’t know how to deal with replies on a calendar event. Most of the Fediverse maps their functionality onto a subset of the protocol that’s implemented by most other servers.
There’s absolutely nothing stopping you from creating a Fediverse LinkedIn that can work together with the rest of the Fediverse. Same with a federated 4chan or a federated review website. The spec is quite open ended. The challenge is finding enough people willing to join your server, and moderating the initial servers. That last part is mostly unsolved because only a sliver of the population wants to moderate and with no clear direction from above, having a solid moderation policy is effectively impossible.
ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Lemmy & Mastodon are completely different beasts with different formatting and function. This is a terrible abuse of ActivityPub IMO and degrades both services cdn.shopify.com/…/Jeff-Goldblum-scientists_2_480x…
Scrollone@feddit.it 12 hours ago
100% agree. My local instance has a lot of posts coming from Mastodon and I simply don’t like it. I wonder if they even see my replies.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Imo, AP was created with a great deal of integration in mind without being prescriptive. It’s hard to gauge what abuse really is when the feature in question is marginal and a bit inconvenient to use as other commenters have pointed out. I look at it more as a “look what we can do” type of thing.