I’ve always wondered how many people actually decide to use something like mastodon to see Lemmy posts. I mean I know how inadequate it can be with a lack of a proper UI but I’m just wondering. Especially, with the infinite possibilities this can have.
On Lemmy, I sure use it a ton between different Lemmy instances and KBin! On Mastodon I only use it to communicate across Mastodon instances really, but neither service would be the same without the ability to see posts from other instances.
I look at them separately because I haven’t figured out how to do it from one to the other.
You can follow communities from Mastodon with format @lemmings@lemmings.world (ie replace the exclamation mark with an @). It’s a miserable experience though. It’s better to follow communities using Lemmy or Kbin (I’m not sure if Calckey works better).
It’s a miserable experience though
Yeah. I followed the Technology community and it’s a mess on Mastodon. Replies all show up on the Home feed and there’s no context. I have to click on the comment then scroll all the way up to see the original post.
I wonder why they don’t differentiate between a comment and a thread? They have that capability in Mastodon.
I do! On kbin, if you set hashtags for your magazine /community then the Microblogs section is populated with Mastodon posts that use those tags.
I have a tiny community on kbin.social and I like going into the microblogs section and interacting with Mastodon people. It’s just a fun extra.
I’ve also started following some of them, though I’m not sure how that part works yet.
I think most lemmy or mastodon users don’t even realise we’re on kbin when they read our comments.
Even in this thread, a large proportion of the comments are from kbin users.
That is a crazy thought really. Us being able to communicate. I always really love to see the @ handles for some instances as it brings on this togetherness and uniqueness that no other site (or really protocol) gives me. Honestly kinda weird some apps prefer to hide that instance label rather than show it.
I think you’re right. Outside of Lemmy I don’t think many people have heard of kbin so the mastodon people probably think we’re a mastodon instance.
I want to start posting microblogs somewhere and see if any of them see it.
Edit: posted one and a mastodon account I mentioned upvoted it so yes they can see us under some circumstances!
Yeah, I’m not clear either. At first I thought the microblogs section would work more like Mastodon but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Big missed opportunity
Ernest is still building it so I think we are going to see more functionality around the underdeveloped aspects. He was kind of swamped by the reddit influx.
I just posted my first microblog today. Nothing fladh just an article I liked.
I credited/mentioned the mastodon account I got the link from. The mastodon account person came by and upvoted it, so clearly we are able to get interactions with them. Exciting!
Considering that the vast majority of comments on every thread (including this thread) are from users on different instances than OP, I’m going to answer: “literally everyone on Lemmy, constantly, and on every post”.
It sounds like what you meant to ask was more about interoperability between different platforms, but keep in mind that even if other platforms didn’t exist, Lemmy would not be what it is without ActivityPub federation.
It sounds like what you meant to ask was more about interoperability between different platforms
You hit it spot on. Exactly what I mean. I wish there was more and during my first time in lemmy back at july I’ve seen a few mastodon accounts being able to communicate here however we weren’t able to directly influence mastodon or pixelfed.
I follow lots of Kbin and Lemmy instances. And while I don’t really have any interest in microblogging, I’ve had a few conversations in Lemmy comment sections with Mastodon users, so that’s pretty cool.
