Jay Stevens

@nachtigall @WorriedGnome In addition to the above - you can also post from Mastodon!

It is currently one-way: Mastodon users can follow Lemmy communities and interact with posts; you can’t follow Mastodon users from Lemmy.

But it’s super neat that it’s able to do that at all! For example, I am replying to you from my Mastodon account. If you hit the little “Fediverse” link next to my name, you’ll be taken to my profile on my Mastodon instance.

This is because both Lemmy and Mastodon are part of the Fediverse, and thus can understand the data they send to one another. So to me, your stuff shows up as toots in my timeline… and to you, this is a post on Lemmy!

I’m with you - I was on Voat back when it was still Whoaverse. I bailed pretty early once I saw the direction it was heading in.

That said - the nice thing about the Fediverse is that there are multiple communities, with different moderation styles. Lemmy has a sizable communist community, for example, but you don’t have to associate with them. In fact, some of the larger Lemmy instances (like Beehaw) don’t even federate with them; you have to go out of your way to subscribe to them if your home instance is Beehaw.

So if what you’re saying comes to pass, and the Alt-Right comes to Lemmy (I don’t think they will, but let’s imagine) - you can easily pack up shop and migrate to another Lemmy instance that has a better moderation style, or one that won’t federate with those instances. It’s just like Mastodon in that respect.

I’m a dirty Android user. But remember that Lemmy is ActivityPub.

If you have a Mastodon account (like the one I’m using right now to send you this!), you can follow Lemmy communities. I just put the link to the community in the Mastodon search bar and a “profile” showed up for me to follow. Then I followed it and posts from users show up in my Mastodon client.

It’s not perfect - the Android Lemmy app actually does a better job, generally. But it’s honestly a reasonable workflow and it makes my Mastodon feed more interesting too.

I pretty much exclusively use Bing now. There are some times where Bing doesn’t cut it and I need to use Google, but Google’s results are generally garbage now, full of sponsored stuff and SEO trash.

And you can follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon.

In fact - I’m replying from Mastodon right now!

The UX isn’t as nice as Lemmy natively is, but I can see comments/posts and reply just like they were Mastodon Toots. If you reply to me, it shows up in Mastodon natively as well.

If you click the little “Fediverse” icon in Lemmy, you’ll even get taken to my home Mastodon instance. It’s a very cool feature.

Honestly - I used to think the same way. I’ve tried Linux multiple times and it never “stuck”.

When I got my Steam Deck, though, I realized that the desktop mode was actually quite good. I had tried KDE before and it was always meh at best - slow and usually janky. When I heard that the Deck used KDE Plasma I was worried.

But I had such a great time with my Deck that I realized, “Hey, Linux actually seems usable now.” I tried Linux Mint on a Live USB and noticed it got like 90% of the way there, but it had issues with multiple monitors.

Then I tried KDE Neon. And it was great! Multiple monitors worked fine, I have all the tools I need for work, and honestly it’s such a step up from Windows glitching out or nagging me with a notification to get Xbox Game Pass or whatever or putting ads in the Start menu.

I’ve had KDE Neon as my daily driver for about a month now, without a single problem. I recommend giving it another look if you’re like me and haven’t tried Linux in a while.

Not only is what you say perfectly possible - you can also have people from Mastodon talk to you!

This is my Mastodon account. I’ve followed a couple Lemmy communities and I’m seeing their comments in my feeds, just like they were “real” Mastodon posts.

It doesn’t work the other way around (so you can’t follow me in Lemmy, for example), but it’s pretty neat that it works as well as it does!

One neat thing is that because Lemmy uses the ActivityPub protocol, it interfaces with other Fediverse things like Mastodon.

Speaking of which - hello from Mastodon!

Theoretically it would also work for other Fediverse stuff, like PeerTube (YouTube replacement). I wonder if once Lemmy takes off we’ll see PeerTube start gaining traction next.

One neat thing is that because Lemmy is ActivityPub, your posts show up on anything that follows the ActivityPub protocol (like Mastodon).

Speaking of which - hello from Mastodon!

And you even showed up as a reply to my comment on Mastodon! Very neat.

I knew it was theoretically possible, but I had never tried it before. The thing is from the Mastodon end I see everything as a feed of comments, as if I followed everyone who posted to a certain community.

That _probably_ works fine for now, but as Lemmy grows and these communities get huge I could see it completely take over my Mastodon feed.

I kind of wish it would just show the top-level posts with some way of hiding the replies by default (kind of like Twitter), but I also know that’s not how Mastodon really does things. Still pretty neat!

@Pepp3r @EnglishMobster@lemmy.ml It’s also interesting because of how it opens things up beyond other platforms. For example - I found your post on Mastodon, and I’m replying from my Mastodon account.

The interface isn’t as nice as Lemmy… but it’s certainly extremely interesting that this works! (Or at least… I hope it does!)