What's the difference between Lemmy and Mastodon?
Both are federated right? Getting a bit confused - are they interchangeable? Can I view lemmy posts/communities in Mastodon? Similar to how I can view lemmy.ml content with a lemmy.world account?
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Lemmy is more like Reddit, Mastodon is more like Twitter.
In other words: Lemmy has communities (subreddits) and hierarchical comments for each post. Mastodon doesn't have either of those things, but it has following users and following hashtags.
Despite being different, they have some interoperability because they use the same federation protocol.
But you need to host the videos on your instance and foot the bandwith bill, which will prevent it from taking off like Youtube. Too expensive for anyone outside of gigantic monopolistic companies.It relies on peer-to-peer, not hosting.
BTW: there is also a Facebook equivalent (Friendica, GNU Social, Dispora and Hubzilla), a Instagram equivalent (Pixelfed) and a Instant Messenger (Matrix)
While Matrix is federated, it uses its own protocol,.not ActivityPub like the others you mentioned.
Worth noting that while Matrix is decentralized, it's not part of the Fediverse!
The Fediverse/Activitypub protocol cannot (currently) be end-to-end encrypted, so it's not so great for secure direct messaging. Matrix is completely separate software for a different use case, but it follows similar guiding principles of open source and decentralization. :)
(Oh, and for book lovers, check out BookWyrm; if you used to love Grooveshark back in the day, give Funkwhale a spin!)
They're also working on properly federating wordpress. That's probably a bigger one.
There’s also PixelFed for the federated version of Instagram.
There's more than that too. Like Pixelfed for images and Funkwhale for music streaming.
Check out this Feditips thread for a bunch of stuff.
Saving this because i want to come back to check out those other things/places/what do you call those?
Person, place, thing? That's called a Noun
Jokes aside, I think I'd call them services or platforms
Hold on a second. Following hashtags? Well I learned something today. Back to mastadon for me
Every website uses the http protocol, yet they are all completely different. Same idea with ActivityPub kinda. Also yes, you can actually reply to this exact post from Mastodon too which is pretty awesome.
Lemmy is more reddit-like, while mastodon is more twitter-like.
They do federate, so yes, you should be able to see, like and comment between them.
Both are completly diffrent applications.
But they share one thing in common. Thats the ActivityPup Protocoll, which allows them to somewhat communicate with each other.
All apps using the ActivityPup protocoll are part of the Fediverse and can somewhat communicate with each other. (Sometimes well sometimes not so well)
The same difference between Reddit and Twitter
Mastodon does not show threads. There Is no good entry point to a community.
But yes you are visible on mastodon.
https://mastodon.world/@[email protected]/110665507457402569
You could sub to @nostupidquestions but without threads it looks like a mess
https://mastodon.world/@[email protected]