What's the difference between Lemmy and Mastodon?
Both are federated right? Getting a bit confused - are they interchangeable? Can I view lemmy posts/communities in Mastodon? Similar to how I can view lemmy.ml content with a lemmy.world account?
Lemmy is more like Reddit, Mastodon is more like Twitter.
In other words: Lemmy has communities (subreddits) and hierarchical comments for each post. Mastodon doesn't have either of those things, but it has following users and following hashtags.
Despite being different, they have some interoperability because they use the same federation protocol.
Glomming onto your comment here...
...I discovered that something called Peertube also exists, using the same federation idea/protocol. And it's to YouTube as Lemmy is to Reddit.
(Man, I never thought those school word problems would ever be relevant...)
But you need to host the videos on your instance and foot the bandwith bill, which will prevent it from taking off like Youtube. Too expensive for anyone outside of gigantic monopolistic companies.
It relies on peer-to-peer, not hosting.
BTW: there is also a Facebook equivalent (Friendica, GNU Social, Dispora and Hubzilla), a Instagram equivalent (Pixelfed) and a Instant Messenger (Matrix)
There’s also PixelFed for the federated version of Instagram.
There's more than that too. Like Pixelfed for images and Funkwhale for music streaming.
Check out this Feditips thread for a bunch of stuff.
Hold on a second. Following hashtags? Well I learned something today. Back to mastadon for me
Every website uses the http protocol, yet they are all completely different. Same idea with ActivityPub kinda. Also yes, you can actually reply to this exact post from Mastodon too which is pretty awesome.
Lemmy is more reddit-like, while mastodon is more twitter-like.
They do federate, so yes, you should be able to see, like and comment between them.
Both are completly diffrent applications.
But they share one thing in common. Thats the ActivityPup Protocoll, which allows them to somewhat communicate with each other.
All apps using the ActivityPup protocoll are part of the Fediverse and can somewhat communicate with each other. (Sometimes well sometimes not so well)
The same difference between Reddit and Twitter
Mastodon does not show threads. There Is no good entry point to a community.
But yes you are visible on mastodon.
https://mastodon.world/@DisappointingIntro@lemmy.world/110665507457402569
You could sub to @nostupidquestions but without threads it looks like a mess