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Decided to stop making posts on /r/gunners and just keep my posts exclusively here. Too lazy to post twice.
@poorlydrawnarsenal @I_am_the_grass forgive the gatecrash, a Fediverse question
I am following @gunners
via my mas.to account, but when I click on a lemmy post, I get taken to the site & this notice:
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !gunners@lemmy.world
but pasting
into my search bar at mas.to does absolutely nothing?
It’s confusing but following that account is subscribing to the Lemmy community, it just shows up in your mastodon feed.
@poorlydrawnarsenal do replies made from mastodon show up there?
Yup, so I’m currently replying to you from my Lemmy account.
@poorlydrawnarsenal that's great, thanks. That means I don't have to create a new social media account, yay
Yeah I think federation is really cool. Imagine using your Twitter account to reply to an Instagram post in your feed and your reply shows up on Instagram. It’s just hard to explain federation without using it haha.
@ronsboy67 @poorlydrawnarsenal the only thing I don't think you can do from Mastodon is create a post on Lemmy
@raumdeuter @poorlydrawnarsenal that's fine. I don't want to creat an account there for the same reason I didn't join @arsenalfc.social on mastodon - so much of my posting has nothing to do with the greatest football club in the history of History, so would be irrelevant😀
You actually can! When you make a post if you tag the account @gunners @lemmy.world (but formatted correctly, I didn’t want to make a post) it will create a post in the community.
@poorlydrawnarsenal oooh I will try this sometime. At least until I find a good Lemmy app for the iPad.
@ronsboy67 @poorlydrawnarsenal @I_am_the_grass @gunners
I honestly don’t understand what the Lemmy stuff is all about… does this means it links with multi-accounts? Such as posting from one area which posts across multiple platforms?
Yeah, so Lemmy is like Reddit. It’s a thread based social media site, but you can access it and comment on posts from your mastodon feed.
So theoretically you only need one account to access the fediverse equivalents of Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, etc.
It’s for sure not perfect. It’s wonky but it’s also kinda early days for it
@poorlydrawnarsenal ah okay.. I understand.. I tried to do this once with messengers, but it all failed.. but seems more possible with social media..
@Hantsravens @poorlydrawnarsenal it helps that a lot of these sites are entering their "enshittification" phases (as @pluralistic has coined) at around the same time. A lot of thought went into how to grab the web back from tech monopolies several years ago and this is the result.
The various exoduses has put a strain on the smaller servers and they're still working through that (especially the Lemmy servers) but hopefully as time goes on things get smoother.
Yeah I quit Reddit like right from the start; it's easier this way. Annoyingly not nearly as much stuff to doomscroll on Lemmy but it'll get there eventually. And Twitter helps out with F5 antsiness lol
Yea, I tried doing that but I'm also a heavy content contributor on /r/gunners so I guess it was harder.
But I have to pick a platform eventually.
I haven't been back to Reddit since they nuked the apps. I like to think it's a total graveyard.