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!

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝AEnglish
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    1 year 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/moderation@feddit.uk 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.