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What is Lemmy to Mastodon?

Lemmy appears to be very similiar to Mastodon, with decentralised servers to prevent musky spezulence.

Just a bit confused as i've tried Mastodon using the Tusky app and it felt like twitter but decentralised, whilst Lemmy feels like reddit but decentralised but language such as fediverse is shared.

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Basically, it’s exactly as you say with the added bonus that this “twitter” and “reddit” can talk to each other.
- Well put, this exactly!
- How do I talk with my Mastodon life? I literally have two separate accounts for here and there!
  
  You can't yet, not conveniently anyways. I've seen exactly one post from Mastodon on Lemmy so far, and it was a post testing if it was even possible at all. The formatting was pretty fucked up so it'll probably be awhile until it's an actual feature rather than just a technical possibility.
  
  A lot of us have separate accounts for different uses. Mastodon is a microblogging platform where one follows users and hashtags. Lemmy is an aggregator and discussion platform where one subscribes to communities (and possibly follows users).
  
  As I understand it, to see posts across services, you just look up and follow accounts and communities using their <@subject@instance.tld> identity. Someone who's more familiar with the process can probably give a better explanation or point you towards a tutorial.
The Fediverse are a number of services that use shared protocols to talk to each other. Each of these services can fulfill different roles and there are plenty of alternatives to existing sites.

So the threadiverse (Lemmy/kbin) are link aggregating forums like Reddit. Micro-blogging platforms (Mastodon/Calckey) tend to occupy a similar space to Twitter/Threads.
i remember reading on lemmy about how on mastodon (like <s>twitter</s>) you follow people (or organizations) and on lemmy (like on deadDit) you follow subjects. I thought it was spot-on
Lemmy is communities. Like Reddit. You can curate a list of communities you subscribe to.

Mastodon is microblogging. Like Twitter. You can curate a list of bloggers you subscribe to.

Because they are decentralized, you can include off-server sources in your subscription list, for both your mastodon account and your lemmy account. Because mastodon and lemmy use same activitypub protocol, you can include lemmy communities in your curate mastodon list of subscribed sources. Or a mastodon microblogger in your curated lemmy feed. Also you can reply using your existing account to a post in that feed, including from the other service.
Lemmy communities are "group" users that "boost" everything posted to them. You can follow one with a Mastodon account if you want to, but the Mastodon web UI isn't the greatest at presenting the content properly. You can post to Lemmy by tagging a community just like other federated group systems such as https://a.gup.pe or https://chirp.social.
What is Lemmy to Kbin?
Think of them like email servers. There are many, they all can talk to each other, and the tech is not new.
- I hate this comparison. I've seen it so many times in the last four years or so, but I feel like it always adds more confusion. I don't think most people know how email servers work. I run a server and have messed with Postfix, and I don't have a good grasp on it myself. I'm not sure how to improve it but there has to be something better than that.
  
  I’ve seen this comparison many times and it does nothing to help my understanding of the fediverse. I have no idea how email servers work.
  
  Literally my response.
- Yea, i read that analogy on the Lemmy website and it did not clear things up for me at all.
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