What makes Lemmy part of the Fediverse? Can one follow a Lemmy community from say a Mastodon account and receive post updates from the Lemmy Community when someone posts to the community they are following?

    • F00FC7C8 likes to infodump@libranet.de
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      2 years ago

      @jonasvautherin @creatinglake Mastodon doesn’t do everything that a platform connected to the Fediverse can do; Lemmy has a lot of features Mastodon doesn’t, and Mastodon has a lot of features Lemmy doesn’t. For example, as far as I know Mastodon users can’t create original posts to Lemmy communities, nor downvote posts on the site.

      The beauty of the Fediverse is that you can create different platforms for different purposes - Twitter-like microblogs, Reddit-like link forums, photo sharing, video sharing… if you have an account on one of them, that perhaps represents your preferred set of features, you can still keep up with activity on the others using their analogous features. And as Joe Bidet said while I was typing this: it’s about cooperation not competition.

      • creatinglake@lemmy.mlOP
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        2 years ago

        Exactly–and what I am suggesting is that it would be awesome to have one Fediverse account and one Fediverse feed do collect streams from all of the fediverse spaces we engage with…so we could aggregate posts/notifications from Mastodon, Pixelfed, and Lemmy communities (I think different communities is the most powerful here) into a single Fediverse Feed.

    • Joe Bidet@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      what lemmy gives you: 1/ communities where news are aggregated on themes, that you can follow (also from mastodon) 2/ elaborate threading system for the replies 3/ up/down votes for the news and the comments 4/ views based on the above, allowing to look only at the new, the hot, the commented, etc.

      it’s not competition. it’s cooperation and complementarity <3