What is the difference between Lemmy and Mastodon?
I seem to find most of the stuff I read posted both on Lemmy and Mastodon. What is the connection? What is the difference?
I do understand it's too different platforms (servers, code bases), but what is the intersection between them?
Lemmy is more like reddit where you post to communities and Mastodon is more like Twitter where you can do microblogging to your followers
Difference: Lemmy is like a bunch of forums like Mastodon is a bunch of blogs.
Intersection: ultimately they're for people talking about stuff. Plus Mastodon and Lemmy instances can connect to each other, for example you can mention a Lemmy comm from a Mastodon toot and it'll create a thread in that Lemmy comm.
you can mention a Lemmy comm from a Mastodon toot and it’ll create a thread in that Lemmy comm
Thanks! Yes, this is probably the relationship between them I couldn't put my finger on. But do all the replies to the Lemmy comm automatically get mirrored as replies in the Mastodon toot as well?
But do all the replies to the Lemmy comm automatically get mirrored as replies in the Mastodon toot as well?
Yes! Here's an example of that:
#1 was posted in the Mastodon instance poliversity.it. Since it included the string scienza, it got cross-posted to !scienza@feddit.it, a Lemmy community. Then a Lemmy user commented in #2, and it appears back in #1.