I’ve seen some mention that Lemmy has inter-op with other platforms supporting ActivityPub, but so far I’ve not really seen this in action, or even in how it works.

  • @PriorProjectEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    You’ve gotten some technical answers, but here’s a bit of context about user-experience:

    • From Mastodon…
      • A Lemmy community looks like a mastodon user. You can post to the community by at-mentioning the user. The first line of the toot becomes the post name, the rest of the toot becomes the post body. If you ever see posts with the title @communityname, you can bet that’s a mastodon user who didn’t format their toot in a way that maximizes readability on Lemmy.
      • Existing posts from Lemmy look like toot threads in Mastodon, with each comment as a toot. You can reply to a comment by replying to the toot. Again, if you see a comment beginning with the username being replied to, it’s a decent bet that reply is from a mastodon user.
    • From kbin, Lemmy communities look like magazines, I think… and behave pretty much like communities.

    Other apps may interoperate differently, or may just feel a bit broken depending on the specifics of how it uses ActivityPub compared to Lemmy.

    • Itzz MeOPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      That’s real interesting, I was under the assumption that mastodon users were limited to plain comments.

      Also, kbin, I know nearly nothing about it, what’s it about?

      • @PriorProjectEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Also, kbin, I know nearly nothing about it, what’s it about?

        It aims to unify the community-ness of Lemmy and the tooty-ness of mastodon in a single app/account. The community bits aim to be quite similar to Lemmy as far as I know. I believe the registered user count was under 2000 earlier this week, though, so it’s MUCH smaller than the Lemmy community and I think a lot of what people use it for is to connect to Lemmy communities. Admittedly, I don’t really know what I’m talking about though. I decided to go with the more established ecosystem in Lemmy and didn’t dig too deep beyond skimming the webpage when I was shopping for a fediverse app/instance.

        Details at https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin