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Can someone explain what role lemmy and mastodon play in the fediverse? (self.fediverse)
submitted 1 year ago by Absence209 to c/[email protected]
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From what I understand, fediverse is sort of liking emailing and lemmy and mastodon are simply the sites that allow you to send emails (i.e. yahoo, gmail). How come I don't see any mastodon content anywhere in my jerboa app (which is on lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Without being a historian of the fediverse, I am old enough to have seen it somehow grow.

The great old ones would be identi.ca open-source micro-blog engine, and Diaspora* when some student raised money to build a free and decentralized alternative to facebook over the summer-break, it was like 2010.

In the Mid 2010's the Mastodon project started to build a free/decentralized twitter clone. At the time twitter was already a shithole, so it got some attention, and grew steadily attracting open-source enthusiasts, at the point that today it's the most popular fediverse.

In parallel, a video-sharing platform compatible with Mastodon was built, it's the famous peertube, then a Photo-sharing platform appeared, the famous pixelfed.

Lemmy is relatively recent, and got a lot of traction recently. Just like Mastodon/Peertube, it uses the Activity Pub protocol and is part of the fediverse. It means that I can see lemmy content from Mastodon. However, I tried to comment a Lemmy thread from Masto and it didn't worked.

The reason why many people talk about Mastodon, is because it's like the most popular fediverse. I just try to see my Mastodon account from my lemmy account, but looks like it's not working (yet).

Another cool thing is that you can interact with Kbins magasine from Lemmy and the other way around, so no need to have two separated accounts