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I am new to the Fediverse. I vaguely understand how Lemmy instances broadcast content to each other, but I was surprised to find Lemmy communities on kbin. How does that work? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And it also seems that mastodon can also be "syndicated" to these other communities, and vice versa? Is that true?

Are there limitations to any of this?

Apologies if this is not the perfect place to ask this question. I'm a lost old man. :-)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

All fediverse software (lemmy, kin, mastodon, etc) implements their own version of ActivityPub in slightly different ways. There are cases where the overlap is enough to cross over (lemmy communities and kbin magazines), and some where it doesn't work/is wonky (lemmy users can't follow mastodon users).

There's a more in depth write up here if you're curious: https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/01/13/activitypub-final-thoughts-one-year-later.html

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can follow Mastodon accounts from Lemmy and Kbin.
https://kbin.social/u/@[email protected]
https://lemmy.ml/u/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh nice! How are you able to pull up mastodon users on Lemmy? I've never been able to get the search to work

EDIT: I found a mastodon.online user but don't have the option to follow. Someone let me in on the secret!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know so much about Lemmy. In kbin, you just search for the user address and it will show in the results.

That doesn't seem to be the case for Lemmy though and I don't know if Lemmy has any way to make search work this way, but you can always manually build the user profile URL in Lemmy the way I did: <lemmy_instance>/u/<user address>

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for great info!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's times like this I wish ChatGPT was more up to date on all this lingo. Because I'm still scratching my brain about how things all interconnect. I'm sensing ActivityPub is like phpBB forum code back in the day with a modern twist.

Either way, I'm glad to find an alternative to reddit and see the system "fediverse?" start to grow.

I myself have blocked reddit at the router level to ensure I don't accidentally visit the site and give them any traffic - I haven't visited the site since the blackout started.