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. :-)

  • autumn@reddthat.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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

      • autumn@reddthat.com
        1·
        1 year ago

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

        • chuso@kbin.social
          1·
          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>

    • cassetti@kbin.social
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      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.