Hello, I’m sorry in advance if this is a noob question. I am new to Lemmy and the Fediverse.
As far as I understand, Lemmy is part of the Fediverse, but if I search for “Lemmy” here it will not find it. It seems to be full of instances from Mastodon.
Can someone help me understand why Lemmy isn’t there? Thank you!
@Mango7874
I’m on the Fediverse, but not on Lemmy.
And I am replying to you.
Welcome to the Fediverse!
ok, I do understand how different lemmy/kbin instances can communicate, but I always thought, that different applications (like Mastadon or some micro blogging stuff) has their own federated network.
they are all interconnected? Oo
out of curiosity, how (with which other federated service) do you access Lemmy content on another service?
edit: someone down already posted this overview
https://axbom.com/fediverse/
I’m still not entirely sure how all is connected and works together.
i think, I have to read up. if anyone has some further links to read into, I’d be very happy :-)
@naeap @reiver Hi … I’m on the fediverse too, but not on lemmy either! Welcome!
The simple answer to your question is that lemmy users (such as yourself) and lemmy communities (such as !fediverse@lemmy.ml) appear as similar kinds of things here. You look like a user here, so I can look at all of your lemmy posts etc by just clicking on your name.
And lemmy communities basically look just like users too, which I can follow, except they “boost” (like re-tweeting) everything posted in them.
@naeap @reiver I’m on Mastodon and I’m talking to you on Lemmy because they are federated
Thank you! I find the Fediverse to be really interesting, but I’m still learning how to navigate it. So far everywhere I looked I’m only seeing Mastodon, I wonder how to find other instances that are not Mastodon related, do you have any tips?
I know a few Friendica users have replied to my posts here.
Do you mean other Lemmy instances, or other projects like Lemmy, Mastodon, etc?
This site lists a lot of the different projects, and you can click on them to see the different nodes available for that project: https://the-federation.info/
Thank you for the link! I meant projects like Lemmy and Mastodon
i think you’ll find this page informative: The many branches of the Fediverse
I think it’s just frigging amazing to see this.
I just created an account on a new Lemmy instance to try out the experience, and I’m actually excited, watching all these people communicate across all the Lemmy instances. It’s just like email, if email servers were self hosted by individuals.
not only that, you might see some people around who aren’t even on Lemmy! Lemmy is on the same network as Mastodon, Calckey, Pixelfed, Peertube, and several other social media platforms, so people can post and reply to Lemmy discussions no matter what they’re using
Yeah this is incredible actually. This technology could become very popular with just a few simple changes to signup flows and user interfaces, and I see what’s needed, but on the other hand, I actually don’t want too many people to join us.
It’s good with a bit of a barrier right now so we don’t have to deal with moderation issues caused by people who just want to cause conflicts.
@smartwater0897 @salarua I host a server running pleroma, which is a microblogging fediverse server similar to mastodon, and this thread got boosted by someone I follow and showed up on my instance just now. Posts in the fediverse spread out far from your home server across all kinds of different platforms, and it’s really cool to see in practice. Welcome!
There are heaps! Personally I feel Mastodon is the only one that could be considered in any way mature, but it’s just not something I can get into.
Lemmy has been great with all these new users (not so great prior), but it’s still pretty janky if we’re being honest.
I quite like Bookwyrm as well (a sort of fediverse Goodreads), and use it for tracking what I’m reading. But the federation of reviews doesn’t work quite how I (or they) would prefer. Plenty of content on the flagship instance bookwyrm.social, though I’m not sure how well it works trying to connect from other services. I just have a bookwyrm-specific account for that, though in theory you could use your lemmy account to connect I guess.
There’s also a facebook-like one called Friendica, but honesty until you can upload videos seamlessly I just can’t see it being used by the general public. You basically have to upload videos to youtube (or peertube) and link them. Because of a lack of users, most fediverse sites seem to assume posts will be public. I just can’t see friendica being adopted mainstream until I can upload videos of my kids for family to see without having to put them another site for the world to see.