Electronic Frontier Foundation shouted out Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon in their Reddit coverage today: What Reddit Got Wrong
From the article:
"Moving to the Fediverse
This tension between these communities and their host have, again, fueled more interest in the Fediverse as a decentralized refuge. A social network built on an open protocol can afford some host-agnosticism, and allow communities to persist even if individual hosts fail or start to abuse their power. Unfortunately, discussions of Reddit-like fediverse services Lemmy and Kbin on Reddit were colored by paranoia after the company banned users and subreddits related to these projects (reportedly due to “spam”). While these accounts and subreddits have been reinstated, the potential for censorship around such projects has made a Reddit exodus feel more urgently necessary, as we saw last fall when Twitter cracked down on discussions of its Fediverse-alternative, Mastodon."
Wait, does Lemmy federate with Mastodon? How does that work?
On mastodon search for the account @news@beehaw.org it will be this lemmy sub but in mastodon. Commenting on posts in mastodon will also comment on the lemmy thread.
Can you upvote or downvote posts through Mastodon? Or does that have to be done from a Lemmy instance?
@TexasCrowbarMassacre On the Mastodon side of things, we have a like button that's basically an upvote, but there's no equivalent of a downvote. So we can upvote, but not downvote.
This blew my mind. What else can we deep fry...err, I mean link together?
Hmm. I can see that account, but I don't see any posts (in the Mastodon app).
it could be that your instance doesn't have the post (e.g. no one else in the instance is following the account). Fediverse stuff is weird in that regard where it won't fetch them from the other server either, but they will show up going forward if you follow the account.
Ah, so when I subscribe and it shows up as "pending", that's me trying to connect the two?
Still learning, thanks for the help.
Kinda. You're server will not back-populate old posts from someone you just followed. However, you should get all future posts.
If you find a thread on Lemmy and you want to comment on it in Mastodon, but you can't find it normally, you can copy the URL to the thread or comment, paste it in Mastodon search, and then it should force-load that post. Then you can reply and comment on it as normal.
This is so incredibly cool and helpful, thanks so much for pointing this out!
I assume it's through activity pub - that's how pixelfed and mastodon communicate as well.
What I'm not sure of is if beehaw uses activity pub internally or it's just there for fediverse integration.