Sorry if this is the worng space for general fediverse quations. I am new to the fediverse, and I’m still getting used to it. I’m trying to figure out how to situate my experience. Do you typically use more than one account, or are you using Mastodon, PeerTube, etc with your lemmy account? If you use multiple accounts, do you have a leftest Mastodon instance you recommend? I ask lemmygrad.ml in particular because I want to make sure I’m tuned into leftest spaces well (who knows where I’d be if I initially joined Beehaw out of ignorance).
Not sure in regard to PeerTube, but although Lemmy federates with Mastodon, they’re incredibly different software. Mastodon is entirely revolved around user feeds, which in Lemmy translate to comments; posts in the Lemmy sense do not exist, so with a Lemmy account you can’t in a sense “follow” a Mastodon account.
Lemmy posts show up in Mastodon as a toot (with a link to the Lemmy post), and you can follow the chain of comments as replies to that toot. But Mastodon toots don’t show up as posts as they are not linked to any sort of Lemmy community.
This is a recent discussion on some of the incompatibility between the two.
Thanks for the information. Part of me thinks that an app and/or interface that could include multiple formats would be great, but I’m under no illusion that that’s not a monumental ask. Wouls you advise just making multiple accounts for multiple instance types?
I’d say yes if you really want to be part of both Lemmy & Mastodon (and I think the same for PeerTube). As great as federation between very different software is, it won’t always be 1:1 given the software are for very different types of content. Trying to interact heavily with the Mastodon community won’t work with a Lemmy account, and although slightly better the other way around, it really isn’t the same
Thank you. I appreciate your input.
Any instances you’d recommend that are leftest? I initially joined a mastodon instance (then tried using lemmy, it was confusing, but consistent with your description of how they interact), but there was enough neoliberalism that it might have just as well been @wasnt_obama.great.
Mastodon overall is much more anarchist & radlib vs socialist/communist compared to Lemmy which imho makes it difficult to find a cozy instance. But I have two Masto accounts: one on tilde.zone for more neutral content and a more “leftist” one on anticapitalist.party.
The latter is pretty decent and they don’t outright ban communists (looking at you, todon.nl), so I’d probably recommend there if you’re looking for an instance with a political bent.
I understand. tilde.zone looks to be into linux, which I’m definitely into as well, so I’ll probably try it out. I’m not even looking of for a super political instance, just not posts celebrating gay women who are drone pilots (or something else who knows, and yes that’s an actual post I saw).
I think that’ll always be an issue, but overall most Mastodon instances (at least the ones I’ve seen) don’t really have too much of that, at least in comparison to Reddit. I think the biggest issue you can come across are the techbros; there are a lot of them on Mastodon. I feel like finding nerdy tech spaces that aren’t filled with bros is as difficult as finding socialist spaces!
It would be great to have a list of different Mastodon instances and their political culture and moderation. It was a major headache for me to make an account there trying to navigate that myself.
A lot of the sites that try to act as a Mastodon instance browser are janky :/ and they definitely don’t give enough info on the instance, but that’s also on the instance admins. Most instances have nowhere near enough information on political culture and moderation, and the ones that do seem to be very much as what beehaw is trying to do, with the exception that they don’t defederate with everyone