this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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It might help to think about Mastodon, Lemmy and other fediverse portals as different email programs, like gmail, outlook, thunderbird. They all use the same protocol (mail) to communicate info. ActivityPub is the underlying protocol that makes the fediverse work but conceptually your instances are like mail servers some run Lemmy, some run Mastodon, but they all talk the same language under the hood.
I can understand this, but im looking at this post from my instance (lemmyNSFW) and it has 16 score and 89 comments. But on lemmy.ml this same post has 1.28k score and 662 comments.
Why is that so different? If they are like different email programs, shouldnt the email chains be the same no matter which program you use?
I suspect it only reports the activity from that instance. Definitely feels like there is some room for improvement.
Good Analogy. Thanks!
I agree with you that Mastodon and Lemmy are quite different - the point of the fediverse is that you can communicate across them if you want. Here's our conversation showing up in Mastodon:
Lemmy is more like Reddit - principally short, text-based, Mastodon is more like twitter and there's a lot more graphical stuff there. Personally I find lemmy more intuitive - but I was never really into twitter, whereas I wasted a ton of time on reddit.
Interestingly in the screen shot above, the reply I made to the other poster about the NSFW instance that shows a graphic doesn't show up - I don't know why that is, but you can see our exchange shows just fine in Mastodon. In short, I prefer Lemmy but Mastodon has loads of photography and graphical content if that's your preference - but you can most definitely interact between them. This should be a key factor as the fediverse matures and should help to ensure that our communities continue to grow.