Both are federated right? Getting a bit confused - are they interchangeable? Can I view lemmy posts/communities in Mastodon? Similar to how I can view lemmy.ml content with a lemmy.world account?

  • minorninth@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    54
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Lemmy is more like Reddit, Mastodon is more like Twitter.

    In other words: Lemmy has communities (subreddits) and hierarchical comments for each post. Mastodon doesn’t have either of those things, but it has following users and following hashtags.

    Despite being different, they have some interoperability because they use the same federation protocol.

    • IonAddis@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      32
      ·
      1 year ago

      Glomming onto your comment here…

      …I discovered that something called Peertube also exists, using the same federation idea/protocol. And it’s to YouTube as Lemmy is to Reddit.

      (Man, I never thought those school word problems would ever be relevant…)

      • Ranessin@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        But you need to host the videos on your instance and foot the bandwith bill, which will prevent it from taking off like Youtube. Too expensive for anyone outside of gigantic monopolistic companies.

        It relies on peer-to-peer, not hosting.

        BTW: there is also a Facebook equivalent (Friendica, GNU Social, Dispora and Hubzilla), a Instagram equivalent (Pixelfed) and a Instant Messenger (Matrix)

        • red@feddit.de
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          10
          ·
          1 year ago

          While Matrix is federated, it uses its own protocol,.not ActivityPub like the others you mentioned.

        • sab@kbin.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Worth noting that while Matrix is decentralized, it’s not part of the Fediverse!

          The Fediverse/Activitypub protocol cannot (currently) be end-to-end encrypted, so it’s not so great for secure direct messaging. Matrix is completely separate software for a different use case, but it follows similar guiding principles of open source and decentralization. :)

          (Oh, and for book lovers, check out BookWyrm; if you used to love Grooveshark back in the day, give Funkwhale a spin!)

        • Today@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          Saving this because i want to come back to check out those other things/places/what do you call those?