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lol okay here me out, I am enough capable of looking up info on these communities myself through probably one or two web engine searches, but then again we also have to consider that:
- It is a funny title.
- I keep forgetting it.
So really though, what I wanted to know was are we able to communicate with people on the *don instances?
Teach me of this world 🔭
I believe the current state is:
- Mastodon users can participate on Lemmy
- Lemmy users cannot follow Mastodon users
So you may see comments or posts from Mastodon users who have posted to Lemmy, but if you want to follow Mastodon users you’ll need a Mastodon account.
There is a middle ground. Mbin allows you to participate on both Lemmy and Mastodon.
Yeah, that sounds right.
I tried following Lemmy users on Mastadon. It was a cool to see that it’s technologically possible, but it was not a pleasant way to consume Lemmy content.
You can also help #Mastodon visibility / discoverability by adding #hashtags. #Mbin even has a hashtag field on thread creation for this but #Lemmy in one of the more recent updates added general #hashtag support as well.
I don’t think the question is stupid at all, the answer is just relative. On my end, the answer is a clear YES: I am seeing this on Mastodon, I am responding on Mastodon, I have no obvious way of telling you’re not on Mastodon.
If “this” refers to the site you’re posting from, the answer is obviously no. If it refers to the site it appears on, the answer depends on the reader.
If the question refers to the platform, I guess it’s neither Mastodon or Lemmy, but ActivityPub.
@lookmomnodrugsAP is a protocol, not a platform. You’re still using different platforms, I’m on mbin for example, we’re all interconnected through AP. And you can tell somewhat what platforms someone is on based on their domain suffix. Mastodon users are also easy to spot because they include the @ handle by default.
Yeah, platform was a bad choice of word. But as the content travels through the protocol, it makes no more sense to say that the platform of this post is Lemmy than it does to say that the platform of an email is Gmail, even if it is received by users on other providers.
The platform in a strict sense is, to a degree, irrelevant. I guess it’s platform agnostic. If we had to name one maybe it’s the fediverse.
(I’m not sure I even federate without tags, so: @DarkThoughts @lookmomnodrugs )
“enough capable”
Say less.
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Yes and no. Mastodon instances can show Lemmy community posts in a clunky looking way, as they treat communities like a group account which boosts every post.
If someone on Mastodon is familiar with Lemmy, they can technically also follow individual people to ensure their feed looks a little less awkward. However, given the default limited character count of many Mastodon instances, it’s still going to display as the title and link to the Lemmy post at best, if I remember right.
On the other hand, Mastodon people can post to Lemmy communities and reply to comments in threads here, but it also tends to come out rough, especially if they’re unaware of the formatting differences. If you’ve ever seen a really long title that abruptly cuts off mid-sentence, there’s a good chance that was someone posting from a Mastodon account, unaware that it’s better to make a brief opening sentence as title, then an empty line followed by body text, to best fit the formatting here.
Similarly if you see someone replying to a comment starting with an @ mention to the person they’re directly replying to, chances are it may be someone from Mastodon, as replies there include @ mentions by default. Also due to federation weirdness, I’m honestly not sure if they have to keep that mention or not for it to work properly, think I’ve seen it work without, but it’s honestly easier to make an account on a Lemmy instance to participate than deal with awkward federation issues that come up between it and Mastodon.
#IsThisAButterFly?
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