I noticed many new individuals joining following the Reddit API news. Do you have any questions about this website, Lemmy, or the fediverse?

  • @JackFromWisconsin@midwest.socialOP
    2•11 months ago

    Yup, what seahorse said.

    From a Mastodon (or similar) account, you can:

    • comment on any post
    • follow any community
    • follow any user
    • make top level posts by mentioning the community somewhere in the post. The first line becomes the title.
      • Arindrew
        4•11 months ago

        Interesting. This will take me a bit to wrap my head around haha

    • @Steeltooth493@midwest.social
      2•11 months ago

      So if I understand this correctly, if I have a Lemmy account do I also need to create a separate Mastodon account if I want to join Mastodon?

      • @JackFromWisconsin@midwest.socialOP
        2•11 months ago

        Yes you would need to sign up for a Mastodon account if you wanted to use it. Right now most of the functionality with mastodon is one-way (they can comment on Lemmy posts, but we can’t comment on their posts, unless they post it to a Lemmy community).

      • seahorse [Ohio]M
        2•11 months ago

        Yeah, accounts on the Fediverse aren’t universal. A mastodon account is not the same as a Lemmy account. They’re interoperable though.