Thank you for sharing!
Blaze
joined 1 year ago
You can't follow a Mastodon account from Lemmy.
Those two types of platforms are different, even if they both use ActivityPub, and calling them Threadiverse and Microblogverse (or whatever that name would be) seems fair
Indeed, but I was talking about personal accounts, not groups.
That's how both kind of platforms mostly differ
Thank you for this
but then we should also start referring to Mastodon and similar projects as the “Tootiverse”.
I've seen Mastoverse used a few times to describe Mastodon, Misskey and it's forks, and that part of Kbin. I guess as more and more comparison will emerge between the Threadiverse and the microblogging part of the Fediverse, a new name will emerge, and ideally platform neutral
How can a user on Lemmy follow an account on Mastodon ?
Mastodon accounts can follow Lemmy communities, but the opposite is not true.
That's why people talk about the Threadiverse. Lemmy, Kbin, Piefed, Lotide use the same presentation and logic (threads).
Mastodon can technically interact with some of the Lemmy content, but it is limited as I stated above.
There is no link summarizing the whole thing, but if you browse the meta communities of a few instances and look for threads in December, you should see people complaining about federation being broken.
One good example is !europe@feddit.de that wasn't federated for a few weeks
How can people on Lemmy follow Mastodon accounts?
Feel free, I might have a few other comments along those lines somewhere!
endless forking situation like with Misskey
As ironic as it seems, I would be happy to see this as it would mean Lemmy has enough devs so that different forks can be worked on at the same time
Here you go: https://piefed.social/
One of their cool features is topics, such as this one that should interest you: https://piefed.social/topic/arts-craft
Exactly.
Which is why it makes sense to distinguish platforms that are completely compatible (Lemmy and Kbin, or Mastodon with Misskey), compared to existing but lackluster compatibility (Lemmy and Mastodon)