What makes Lemmy part of the Fediverse? Can one follow a Lemmy community from say a Mastodon account and receive post updates from the Lemmy Community when someone posts to the community they are following?

  • cel
    3·
    2 years ago

    Lemmy implements WebFinger (username@domain lookup) and “a subset of the ActivityPub Protocol, with some extensions” (https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/federation/lemmy_protocol.html).

    I was able to follow a Lemmy community from Mastodon. (I haven’t seen what it looks like yet when posts start coming through.) I was not able to follow Lemmy communities from Epicyon, or Lemmy user accounts from either Mastodon or Epicyon.

      • cel
        3·
        2 years ago

        Cool, thanks Ваня!

        Edit: the screenshot does not appear in Lemmy; I see it in Mastodon and Friendica.

        I’m able to follow Lemmy accounts from Mastodon now. (Previously search was hanging, maybe the servers had to establish contact…)

        • cel
          2·
          2 years ago

          Replying again just to note that the screenshot does not appear in Lemmy - and my edit saying so is not universally propogated (I see it in Friendica but not yet in Mastodon).

          As I suppose Lemmy does not support the media attachment: Lemmy users can find the screenshot by navigating to Ваня’s post at the linked original page (source) - or by viewing this thread on other non-Lemmy instances via other remote participants here (via the small fediverse icon links).