I don’t fully understand how lemmy works completely yet. But for example I made an account at Division by zero and subscribe here to post. Is it not just a more inconvenient version of making a reddit account and being able to post practically anywhere?

Also what’s the difference between making an account at one instant and just making one centralized account for the social media?

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    1 year ago

    Yeah essentially.

    The idea is not that the “Fediverse” - or well any specific app - is a single site broken up to run in multiple servers.

    Rather it’s the inverse, it’s a lot of different little websites like lemmy.world, mastodon.social, etc etc, but you can also load any foreign thread / post / account via your own (as in, where your account is) site and then comment or vote on them. There’s a degree of interoperability - the federation - between all these various websites.

    In the case of instances of the same app (say all the Lemmy servers) there’s also interoperability in the search, which importantly allows you to discover content on other servers and largely pretend it might as well be on your own.

      • odiumEnglish
        23·
        1 year ago

        You won’t have all the features of mastadon with a lemmy account, but here are some things that can happen.

        Mastadon users can post to lemmy and kbin communities. You can reply to these posts and both lemmy and mastadon users will be able to see it. For the mastadon users, the comments look like replies on a mastadon thread.

        Mastadon users can also comment on lemmy/kbin posts. You can reply to those comments, upvote/downvote them etc.

        Mastadon users can follow lemmy and kbin communities. But lemmy users can’t follow mastadon users yet. Kbin users can follow mastadon users. The reason kbin is less popular than lemmy is because kbin lacks mobile apps.

      • originalfrozenbanana@lemm.eeEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        The whole point is deliberate engagement and sharing. Don’t like the content coming out of an instance? Don’t federate with them. It allows communities to stay small and focused, or grow large and be a big tent, according to their users.

        • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Still wish there was a way to block Instances instead of just users and communities for non-instance owners. I’d rather not switch instances for a slight inconvenience of having to block every community from an instance.

      • kreynen@kbin.melroy.org
        10·
        1 year ago

        @[email protected] I am reading, up voting and commenting on this thread from https://kbin.melroy.org/m/[email protected]/t/99078/What-are-the-practical-benefits-of-the-fediverse

        The way I quickly explain the Fediverse to technical folks is it is like public email with voting and open trigger tracking baked in. ActivityPub is the SMTP of an ecosystem of multiple domains and clients with varying policies and features.

        What is happening with Threads is very similar to when AOL started making it easier for the people within their walled garden to interact with the rest of the internet.

        @[email protected] @[email protected]