I am pretty new to the fediverse, but have been sort of aware about its presence since elon took over twitter. I am having some trouble figuring out how to use other parts of the fediverse. For example, I came across a link to a post from beehaw, but was unable to comment on it. How do I do that?

Also, I have heard that I can use a single login for a fediverse service and use that across all the different communities on the fediverse, such as logging in to mastodon using my lemmy.world credentials.

Thanks for the help!

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[–] axzxc1236 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Go to https://lemmy.world/communities/listing_type/All/page/1

This page lists communities from other lemmy/kbin servers that federates with the server you use. (server list available in https://lemmy.world/instances)

If you know other community's url from other server (e.g. https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy), copy and paste that to search function and you can browse that community without registering an account on other lemmy/kbin server.

Currently beehaw.org has de-federated with lemmy.world, that means if you paste a community from beehaw.org, the search function might (1) find the community but you won't see new posts and your posts and comments won't show up on beehaw server (2) doesn't find that community.

[–] Wiitigo 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

With your second paragraph there, about pasting a community's url into search, how do you subscribe so it shows on your feed?

[–] axzxc1236 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

On desktop version of website, once you clicked into the community you can click subscribe button on the right side.

On mobile I see it after I click "Sidebar" button.

[–] Wiitigo 1 points 2 years ago

Tanks!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn’t the opposite is true? Beehaw is not accepting content from lemmyworld.

[–] axzxc1236 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes, if beehaw user searches links from their de-federated servers (which is a long list) they can also observe the same inconvenience, I write from a lemmy.world user POV because OP is a lemmy.world user.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You can make an account on kbin and post/comment on beehaw, Lemmy, etc. and you can even interact with mastodon users through the microblog tab. That's the great thing about the fediverse, if one instance isn't doing everything you need you can make one elsewhere and still have access to all the content you want.

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

Within the threadiverse (Reddit-like software, including Lemmy and kbin) you can follow communities on other instances and through your home instance.

So a direct URL will cause you problems because it takes you to the post/community on the other instance.

So, for example, I have a community on Feddit.uk:

https://feddit.uk/c/moderation is the direct link but you end up on Feddit.uk

/c/[email protected] is a relative link and, if I haven't messed up (edit: second time lucky) should take you to that community but through your home instance, so you can join it, reply and do anything you could on lemmy.world.

So the best way to find the view communities on other instances is to search for them and the search results are all relative links allowing you to treat such communities and their posts, as if they are on your own instance.

Elsewhere in the Fediverse, like Mastodon, I find the direct link to either a user or a community allows you to follow them, although it can take a few goes. edit: this is a good guide.

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

@episode887 You can't log in to Mastodon with your lemmy credentials. Only commenting posts from Mastodon - and in Lemmy's case only if those posts are part of a Lemmy community.

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