I was wondering what was going on with that post. I’m glad it resonated with people across the fediverse. Cool!
Now I’ve got to figure out how to log into Mastadon with my Lemmy account. I didn’t even realize this was a thing.
@maxprime@lemmy.ml You can’t log into other Fediverse services using your Lemmy account. It’s a Lemmy account for your specific Lemmy instance and doesn’t work anywhere else.
What you can do is talk to people on other Fediverse services with your Lemmy account on your instance in the same way you are communicating with people from other Lemmy instances.
For example, the op you are replying to is using Friendica, you are using Lemmy and I am using Firefish right now.
Iirc, you can’t
log into Mastadon with a lemmy account, but there should be a way to follow a mastodon account from a lemmy instance. Never tried it, though.Edit: Apparently, it’s not possible either. Mastodon users can follow lemmy communities, but not the other way around. 😔
Here’s a link to @maxprime@lemmy.ml’s comment: https://lemmy.ml/comment/6075385
The tragedy here is that you had to make a screenshot to then upload to Mastodon, only later to come here and have to point out where the original post is. It would be great if you could have made the post on Mastodon simply by linking to the original post and then the format would have looked just as good as the screenshot, and then both sides of the Fediverse could converse. Or, the opposite could happen.
I’ve talked about this kind of thing before https://lemm.ee/post/4955936 and some are confident this is how things will eventually end up, so I hope they’re right.
Friendica does this already! This is how I see your comment:
Well that didn’t quite work, did it? Here’s the screenshot:
Ah, I see. Lemmy handles comment images differently from the rest of the Fediverse, even including kbin. Annoying.
I wish Lemmy would make instance agnostic post and comment links. With the current system it’s impossible, as every instance assigns its own number. Instead, links could be in the form
https://your instance/comment/number@hostinstanceWhile I completely agree, a partial solution is to use clients that open fediverse links locally. I use Eternity which does it nicely.
That works for a Lemmy user, but it doesn’t help for sharing on other platforms or for users discovering content elsewhere
The GitHub issue is here, you could put a thumbs up reaction on it, and also subscribe to the issue to get updates about it
Done. I hadn’t seen that issue before, not that I really dig into github all that much.
However the issue is somewhat outdated. We do have instance agnostic links for communities and users now, and we have since I joined, which was less than 2 weeks after this issue was posted. We may need a new updated issue that focuses on posts and comments specifically.
It could just be a GUID. The community’s host instance assigns a GUID (which by definition is unique in all GUIDs) and then when sending the post or comment out to federate to other servers it includes the GUID for the other instances to use.
I’m a massive fan of GUIDs, too, but you’d have no protection from rogue instances reusing GUIDs of existing posts…
I don’t think there’s a need for a GUID, in fact it would be quite difficult - every instance would have to check with every other instance to ensure that the ID’s are unique. Meanwhile, if we just have the federated host picking a number, then every other host uses that number followed by
@hostinstance, we don’t need cross-checking but still have unique ID’s for everything.For example,
https://lemm.ee/comment/123456would be a different comment tohttps://lemmy.nz/comment/123456(as it is currently also), but the first comment could be found on the 2nd instance ashttps://lemmy.nz/comment/123456@lemm.ee.
Way to make me feel silly for having both an account on both a Mastodon server and a Lemmy server! ;)
I love both Mastodon and Lemmy, but they usually don’t federate very well with each other, so one cannot replace the other: Lemmy users cannot see microblog posts which aren’t connected to any community and Mastodon doesn’t show the body of Lemmy posts. Currently trying out Friendica, which manages all parts of the Fediverse reasonably well.
Yea. Generally a good demonstration of how the promise of the fediverse isn’t really there yet.
Lemmy does groups and mastodon does users with neither really understanding the other.
I think there’s more scope for lemmy to cover the user side of social media than mastodon the groups side. Kbin is an example of a continuing effort to do that.
If some keen devs got involved, I’d suspect lemmy could add some good user based functionality.The core devs have recognised it’d be good.
Is it possible to migrate from Mastodon to friendica? And how are the mobile apps?
@Bebo
You can always migrate, but sadly there is no way to import your profile directly from Mastodon. The two best apps, Fedilab and Relatica, are fine but rather limited in functionality, so I often end up using the web version.Oh I hope there is more development in the future since friendica sounds promising.
Friendica definitely is one of the underrated fediverse platforms.
Many bounce off of it because it seems a bit slow and its UI is dated. But in terms of the general ideas about what the fediverse can be and the functionality it’s implemented, it’s very interesting and it would be awesome for it to seem more love.
What’s mastodon?
Federated alternative to shXtter
just say xitter
It’s been my experience that women are way better at using computers, they just don’t feel welcome in the fraternity that is computer sciences.
What a nonsensical, vote-baiting statement. Why should either sex be better at using a computer?
Thanks for being a part of the problem, dickhead.
Weird, you assume I’m a man.
I am, but then again on the Internet I could be anyone I want to be. I could tell you I manage a software dev team that is majority female. What’s the point? I could also tell you I’m Ada fucking Lovelace risen from the crypt.
Skill with a computer has nothing to do with sex or gender. It’s almost entirely down to experience and exposure at an age when you’re willing to break things and learn from it - or capturing that attitude at whatever age.
Weird, you assume I’m a man.
God I can already tell this is going to be bad faith bullshit so i’m not even going to bother reading past this.
When. When did I say that.
Do you often accuse women of being dickheads who are part of misogyny? Or are you just using a pathetic excuse to pretend you didnt read the next paragraph? Grow up. It’s the Internet. Nobody is going to remember that you were silly.
2016 never died, apparently.
You are such an absolute hypocrite. If you’re really a feminist, you’re doing a piss-poor job at it.
Don’t accuse someone of bad faith when you’re here pretending there are no implications behind the term dickhead.
You are such an absolute hypocrite. If you’re really a feminist
WHEN
WHEN DID I SAY THAT
Don’t play dumb. You’re challenging patriarchy (or at least putting on the airs of someone who does), so by defualt you’re a feminist.
No fuck you suckass achiving equality should not be done via promoting one Gender over another the Ends justifies the means mentality is why the world is already so fucked
I love how I never said any of that, you just went off because I was poking at an exposed nerve. 2016 never really did end for a lot of people.
