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  • Do you mean at the technical level or UI level?

    At the UI level, just have a look at https://kbin.social and you’ll see a lot of very familiar posts. Also their posts show up here, just like any normal post.

    Mastodon is a bit trickier. If you put hashtags in your post text, I think it shows up like a “toot” for users following it? Sorry, not a Mastodon user, don’t really know how it works.

    At a technical level, Lemmy is built on the ActivityPub protocol. It’s how Lemmy servers talk to eachother, it’s how Mastodon servers talk to eachother, and it’s how a hell of a lot more services talk. Best analogy I’ve heard is ActivityPub is like the email protocol for social media platforms.


  • Barbarian@lemmy.reckless.devtoLemmy@lemmy.mlWhat's the term for Lemmy users?
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    All of the more fediverse-focused ones (fedditors, fedinauts, feddies, fedizens, etc) are definitely better. Lemmy is bigger than just Lemmy: we have users from Mastodon, Kbin and more seeing and replying to our posts. Let’s choose a name that reflects that :)

    Also, just to prove a point, if you’re here from anywhere not Lemmy, say hello!



  • I hear you man. I went from active contributor to mostly lurking on Reddit, and it wasn’t even a conscious choice. Gradually, everything became very mechanistic. I knew what the top few comments would be before going to the comments. The churn became cyclic in nature.

    After just a few days here, it was actually a little disconcerting how antagonistic and hostile people there are in the comments section. That’s just how people communicate, on a hair-trigger from flamewar.

    I recognize your username, I saw what you wrote about SQL scaling. Can you imagine recognizing a username in a major subreddit in the reddit of today?

    The dichotomy between the big communities which people subscribe to from all over Lemmy and the small meta/announcement/server issue communities for each individual instance is gonna be interesting to see develop as the userbase increases. Kinda like the difference between seeing people from your street everyday, then many more less familiar people in the city center.