You Should Know @lemmy.world Lemminary @lemmy.world 1d ago

YSK You can browse, upvote, reply, follow and post on Lemmy using a Mastodon account. Short guide.

vijayprema.com Reddit exodus - Using Lemmy from my existing Mastodon

Many are turning to Lemmy as a viable Reddit alternative. Here is how to use your existing Mastodon account with Lemmy.

These instructions don't appear to be documented. Here's a post from a bit while ago that covers the basic functions of participating on Lemmy via Mastodon mentions.

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It's true this is a thing that you can do, but the experience seems pretty degraded vs. just registering an account with a Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed/Sublinks (did I miss any?) instance which is natively configured for the kind of threaded conversations that exist on this segment of the fediverse. The instructions basically amount to "Go to a Lemmy instance and use its interface to find a community you're interested in, then copy the link to the discussion you want to interact with and paste that into your Mastodon instance's search bar, then reply to the post that appears. It's that simple!"

If you only interact with threads occasionally or you just want to try it out from Mastodon, this is workable, but you need a lot of patience for the busywork that's involved.
- True, the masto timeline is weird and messed up. Hozever, the oreason i use mastodon and iceshrimp is because my experience on Lemmy is also degraded.
  
  I need hashtag badly, we need the fediverse connection. I think english speaking communities doesn't notice this problem because they have enough people to talk, share content...
  
  The support of hashtags is missing, we can't interact with peertube account, nor mastodon. Mbin is better. Piefed will work on it, they did a tremendous job with feed, pixelfed, peertube. it's an amazing experience. They are pretty close to lemmy parity functionalities and they even surpass them.
  
  Only few options are missing :
  
  crosspost
  
  mobile app (interstellar will support piefed)
  
  comment and mod view
  
  But yeah, as you said xposting from mastodon is lot work but some masto user came, so i'm happy :)
The fact that The Fediverse apps are compatible with each other is amazing. This in theory means that one can create your own Fediverse app as long as its compliant to the specifications, right? For example, we could create a LinkedIn clone or something similar?
- Yes, and there are already lots of different ones that, at least partially, work together:
  
  Don’t know if there is something LinkedIn like though
  
  Is that the same pic I’ve seen posted for like two years now? Are half of those still around? Are many new ones missing?
  
  That looks out of date, Kbin has been replaced my Mbin pretty much.
- Yes, but the spec is intentionally flexible about some things, so a bit of work has to be done to ensure compatibility.
- You can create anything that abides by the spec and it should somewhat work. However, Lemmy won't know what to do with a stream of Location objects and Mastodon won't know how to deal with replies on a calendar event. Most of the Fediverse maps their functionality onto a subset of the protocol that's implemented by most other servers.
  
  There's absolutely nothing stopping you from creating a Fediverse LinkedIn that can work together with the rest of the Fediverse. Same with a federated 4chan or a federated review website. The spec is quite open ended. The challenge is finding enough people willing to join your server, and moderating the initial servers. That last part is mostly unsolved because only a sliver of the population wants to moderate and with no clear direction from above, having a solid moderation policy is effectively impossible.
Lemmy & Mastodon are completely different beasts with different formatting and function. This is a terrible abuse of ActivityPub IMO and degrades both services
- 100% agree. My local instance has a lot of posts coming from Mastodon and I simply don't like it. I wonder if they even see my replies.
- Imo, AP was created with a great deal of integration in mind without being prescriptive. It's hard to gauge what abuse really is when the feature in question is marginal and a bit inconvenient to use as other commenters have pointed out. I look at it more as a "look what we can do" type of thing.
You can do this on Mbin too

Check out fedia.io or kbin.earth to check it out.

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