Submitted 2 weeks ago by eddeeMN@poweredbygay.social to fediverse@lemmy.world
@fediverse Dumb question but do "likes" on #Mastodon automatically create up-votes on a #Lemmy post? I want to get a good grasp on the #Fediverse.
I remember reading (though I can’t find the source anymore) that Mastodon “favorites” and Lemmy upvotes are the same thing, but that it is not possible to downvote from Mastodon.
I up voted this from Lemmy, assuming it was posted from Mastodon so you tell me.
I’m more confused after reading the responses so far than I was before coming here.
I think the short answer would be yes, because both services translates ‘likes’ the same. However, dislikes does not appear on mastodon.
So this post has (at the time of writing this post):
From this I would say it seems lemmy upvotes dont seem to federate at all with mastodon. Replies seems to federate but for some reason 1 reply from mastodon is missing on lemmy.
Undearius@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It’s a bit confusing because each action on the Fediverse uses the same universal language, but each service translates that language into their own specific rolls for their service.
Lemmy upvotes use “Like” which is common language in ActivityPub but down votes use “Dislike” which is not used in the ActivityPub language. It’s up to the other services how they interpret that. Mastodon favourites use “Like” but it has nothing for “Dislike”. Mastodon boost uses “Announce” which is what Lemmy uses for posts and comments to a community.
From the Lemmy ActivityPub documentation
From the Mastodon ActivityPub Documentation
rglullis@communick.news 2 weeks ago
Dislike is an Activity type defined by ActivityStreams, which is the basis of the ActivityPub vocabulary.
Undearius@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
In hindsight, I wrote that line after seeing some code on Github that I thought was for ActivityPub, but when I went back to it later I realised it was for Mastodon.