Maximizing Fediverse Experience
Maximizing Fediverse Experience
Sorry if this is the worng space for general fediverse quations. I am new to the fediverse, and I'm still getting used to it. I'm trying to figure out how to situate my experience. Do you typically use more than one account, or are you using Mastodon, PeerTube, etc with your lemmy account? If you use multiple accounts, do you have a leftest Mastodon instance you recommend? I ask lemmygrad.ml in particular because I want to make sure I'm tuned into leftest spaces well (who knows where I'd be if I initially joined Beehaw out of ignorance).
I have a different mastodon than lemmy, the formats would confuse me on the same account.
Not sure in regard to PeerTube, but although Lemmy federates with Mastodon, they're incredibly different software. Mastodon is entirely revolved around user feeds, which in Lemmy translate to comments; posts in the Lemmy sense do not exist, so with a Lemmy account you can't in a sense "follow" a Mastodon account.
Lemmy posts show up in Mastodon as a toot (with a link to the Lemmy post), and you can follow the chain of comments as replies to that toot. But Mastodon toots don't show up as posts as they are not linked to any sort of Lemmy community.
This is a recent discussion on some of the incompatibility between the two.
Thanks for the information. Part of me thinks that an app and/or interface that could include multiple formats would be great, but I'm under no illusion that that's not a monumental ask. Wouls you advise just making multiple accounts for multiple instance types?
Wouls you advise just making multiple accounts for multiple instance types?
I'd say yes if you really want to be part of both Lemmy & Mastodon (and I think the same for PeerTube). As great as federation between very different software is, it won't always be 1:1 given the software are for very different types of content. Trying to interact heavily with the Mastodon community won't work with a Lemmy account, and although slightly better the other way around, it really isn't the same