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Electronic Frontier Foundation shouted out Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon in their Reddit coverage today: What Reddit Got Wrong (www.eff.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by dirtmayor@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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From the article:

"Moving to the Fediverse

This tension between these communities and their host have, again, fueled more interest in the Fediverse as a decentralized refuge. A social network built on an open protocol can afford some host-agnosticism, and allow communities to persist even if individual hosts fail or start to abuse their power. Unfortunately, discussions of Reddit-like fediverse services Lemmy and Kbin on Reddit were colored by paranoia after the company banned users and subreddits related to these projects (reportedly due to “spam”). While these accounts and subreddits have been reinstated, the potential for censorship around such projects has made a Reddit exodus feel more urgently necessary, as we saw last fall when Twitter cracked down on discussions of its Fediverse-alternative, Mastodon."

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[–] lindgrenj6@fosstodon.org 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

@twistedtxb @dirtmayor Completely agree. The fact that people from all over the web using different services can engage is amazing (hello from mastodon!)

[–] zhunk@beehaw.org 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wait, does Lemmy federate with Mastodon? How does that work?

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

On mastodon search for the account @news@beehaw.org it will be this lemmy sub but in mastodon. Commenting on posts in mastodon will also comment on the lemmy thread.

[–] TexasCrowbarMassacre@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you upvote or downvote posts through Mastodon? Or does that have to be done from a Lemmy instance?

[–] OneFluffyBoi@octodon.social 11 points 2 years ago

@TexasCrowbarMassacre On the Mastodon side of things, we have a like button that's basically an upvote, but there's no equivalent of a downvote. So we can upvote, but not downvote.

[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

This blew my mind. What else can we deep fry...err, I mean link together?

[–] zhunk@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hmm. I can see that account, but I don't see any posts (in the Mastodon app).

[+] lindgrenj6@fosstodon.org 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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[–] zhunk@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah, so when I subscribe and it shows up as "pending", that's me trying to connect the two?

Still learning, thanks for the help.

[–] charlie@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Kinda. You're server will not back-populate old posts from someone you just followed. However, you should get all future posts.

If you find a thread on Lemmy and you want to comment on it in Mastodon, but you can't find it normally, you can copy the URL to the thread or comment, paste it in Mastodon search, and then it should force-load that post. Then you can reply and comment on it as normal.

[–] g0nz0li0@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

This is so incredibly cool and helpful, thanks so much for pointing this out!

[–] lindgrenj6@fosstodon.org 5 points 2 years ago

I assume it's through activity pub - that's how pixelfed and mastodon communicate as well.

What I'm not sure of is if beehaw uses activity pub internally or it's just there for fediverse integration.

[–] dirtmayor@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

👍

[–] 667@fedia.io 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This seriously blows my mind. You're commenting from Mastodon on a Beehaw thread which I'm reading and replying via Fedia.io. All this interconnection is amazing; it truly embodies the concept of an internet.

We should remind people that we have zero qualms about email which is essentially a federated service. You can be on Gmail, Yahoo, or Bing and trust that your message will be delivered to where you point it.

The only difference being that email is pointed to a particular user on a given instance, and here messages are pointed to magazines/communities.