I apologize if there’s posts on this already. I’m still new here, and it’s very confusing.

I’ve read through the wikipedia entry, blogs, stack overflow posts, lemmy threads, etc… however in all of them, I feel like everyone glosses over how one goes about subscribing or even viewing content from other “packages”. For example, I have an account on lemmy.world, and am using the lemmy mobile app. I’d like to view / subscribe / participate in content from Misskey. Is this possible?

Everything I’ve read suggests it is, given that both lemmy and misskey leverage the same protocol, though I can’t figure out how that works.

  • FozzBear@lemmy.mumbled.xyz
    25·
    1 year ago

    Generally if you search for the full URL or handle of a profile or community your server should be able to find it. For example to find a user like mark ruffalo I just searched for @MarkRuffalo@mastodon.social on my lemmy instance. After a few tries it did find him but not his posts. I’ve only reliably gotten this searching to work through the main lemmy ui so your mileage may vary depending on the app you use. Misskey should work similarly I believe but I don’t follow or know of anyone on there so not sure

    • mikazuki@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      I believe it just finds the user and not the post because the previous posts aren’t synced. So if you are the first user on your instance (eg lemmy.world) to look at that user, only the new posts that this user posts after you have subscribed are synced to the instance.

  • Ducks@ducks.dev
    3·
    1 year ago

    Full disclosure I can be completely wrong, but this is my understanding.

    I don’t believe it is possible today to connect your Lemmy to Misskey. I may be wrong, but Lemmy at the moment supports kbin and lemmy. For example, Mastodon can read Lemmy, but Lemmy cannot read Mastodon. This is just a limitation of the way the app is programmed, even though the ActivityPub backend can communicate.

    • FozzBear@lemmy.mumbled.xyz
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I’m pretty sure they interpret the endpoints differently so unless a mastodon post is directly targeted at a community or something, lemmy just drops it. That’s why I still run a dedicated mastodon and lemmy instance. Kbin promises best of both worlds but doesn’t seem mature enough for my tastes.

      • Rooki@lemmy.worldM
        1·
        1 year ago

        It isnt posting it directly to the others instance api. Rather the Servers “Bot” requests the others API for updates and “scrapes” it like so

    • SleepingTower@lemmy.worldOP
      0·
      1 year ago

      I can see how the incompatibility can happen, despite the common protocols, each package serves a different purpose. For example, what should be shown when you subscribe to a video hosting service through a Lemmy instance? An aggregated list of thumbnails? A list of videos? What is a video hosting service to a link aggregator.

      Despite having a common protocol, it does seem impossible to have one app handling everything.

      Thank you for your reply.

      • Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        For example, what should be shown when you subscribe to a video hosting service through a Lemmy instance? An aggregated list of thumbnails? A list of videos? What is a video hosting service to a link aggregator.

        While I agree with the general premise, this is actually something a link aggregator would handle well. Translating, say, a YouTube video to a Reddit or Lemmy post is just title to title, video as the link, description as the text, replies as comments. Despite being shown very differently and used for different purposes, they’re about as similar on the backend as any two formats. Converting Tweets to Reddit posts and vice-versa is more difficult.

  • Rhaedas@kbin.social
    34·
    1 year ago

    It’s been compared to email. There are many different clients and ways to send and receive email, and they are all compatible with the core text. It’s not perfect, some places still don’t see others, but the concept is that everyone can share a base communication and connect to each other using different methods and styles.