I’m here because it’s eventually going to be the better alternative.

FOSS by its nature, will keep on improving. And proprietary bloatware, by its nature, will only gonna get worse.

      • sparky@lemmy.pt
        4·
        2 years ago

        This is really good. When Reddit un-blacks out I am going to replace all my comments with “Left for Lemmy” and a link to this image.

      • A2PKXG@feddit.de
        1·
        2 years ago

        It’s all quite cool. But what confuses me is that people can use mastadon to follow the lemmyverse.

        • JohannesOliver@beehaw.org
          1·
          2 years ago

          They all use the same protocol, but developers pick and choose features and how they are presented. They may be able to talk to each other but the experience also may not be ideal, especially if they use different features in different ways. For example, until a few days ago kbin upvotes didn’t show up in Lemmy at all, and Lemmy upvotes did not show as upvotes in kbin, because they used different features to describe them (kbin used boosts, which exist in Mastodon but are not implemented in Lemmy).

    • croobat@lemmy.world
      21·
      2 years ago

      You are in your house, I am in mine. But we can still watch movies together through your window.

      • Dreadino@feddit.it
        4·
        2 years ago

        What I am not understanding is the concept of logging in another server. I created an account on feddit.it, can I use this account to login in a mastodon website? Or does it work the other way around, with me just using the feddit.it website (like I’m doing right now) to consume content from other instances? With the second option, if feddit.it goes down, my account is done, right?

        • Azzu@feddit.de
          2·
          2 years ago

          You do everything from your home server.

          So you’re at feddit.it, instead of going to https:/lemmy.world/c/lemmy.world you go to https://feddit.it/c/lemmy.world@lemmy.world

          I don’t know how posting between mastodon and lemmy works.

          And yes, if your instance dies, your account is gone. Mastodon has a “transfer account to another instance” feature, but Lemmy does not yet, but I’m pretty sure redundancy in some form is planned.

        • croobat@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 years ago

          Your account credentials are the keys to your house, you can only enter to your own house (server/instance) with your keys, but can watch through everyone’s window (the owner of your house can block some specific windows tho).

          So your second assessment is correct, and yeah I think if the server goes down your data in that instance may be lost. It shouldn’t pass long time before some migration account feature (mastodon already has one).

        • Drew Got No Clue@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 years ago

          I don’t think Lemmy has good support for viewing Mastodon content (unlike kbin), but you can view/follow users, threads and comments from Lemmy on Mastodon by searching @whateveryouwant@instance

    • manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech
      3·
      2 years ago

      based on the same concepts as email, you pick your provider (instance) and you can get messages from anyone using a provider supporting the protocol. The naming system is similar @<username>@instance and !<community>@instance