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?
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?
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.
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?
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.