Both are federated right? Getting a bit confused - are they interchangeable? Can I view lemmy posts/communities in Mastodon? Similar to how I can view lemmy.ml content with a lemmy.world account?
Lemmy is more like Reddit, Mastodon is more like Twitter.
In other words: Lemmy has communities (subreddits) and hierarchical comments for each post. Mastodon doesn’t have either of those things, but it has following users and following hashtags.
Despite being different, they have some interoperability because they use the same federation protocol.
Glomming onto your comment here…
…I discovered that something called Peertube also exists, using the same federation idea/protocol. And it’s to YouTube as Lemmy is to Reddit.
(Man, I never thought those school word problems would ever be relevant…)
There’s also PixelFed for the federated version of Instagram.
There’s more than that too. Like Pixelfed for images and Funkwhale for music streaming.
Check out this Feditips thread for a bunch of stuff.
Saving this because i want to come back to check out those other things/places/what do you call those?
Person, place, thing? That’s called a Noun
Jokes aside, I think I’d call them services or platforms
Hold on a second. Following hashtags? Well I learned something today. Back to mastadon for me
Every website uses the http protocol, yet they are all completely different. Same idea with ActivityPub kinda. Also yes, you can actually reply to this exact post from Mastodon too which is pretty awesome.
The same difference between Reddit and Twitter
Mastodon does not show threads. There Is no good entry point to a community.
But yes you are visible on mastodon.
https://mastodon.world/@DisappointingIntro@lemmy.world/110665507457402569
You could sub to @nostupidquestions but without threads it looks like a mess
