Fediverse

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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!

Rules

Posts must be on topic.
Be respectful of others.
Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
Follow the general Lemmy.world rules.

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 2 years ago

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PSA: You can paste the link to a Lemmy post in the search bar of your instance, and you'll be able to access the post from your instance (reddthat.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For instance, this one (link to a post to [email protected]): https://reddthat.com/post/20260613

Pasting it in your search bar should give you this kind of results:

You can then click on it to access the post from your instance (in this example, lemmy.zip: https://lemmy.zip/post/16918691)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

To be fair, Lemmy is super alpha software. It'll take months and years before the platform is mature and more user friendly and has an ecosystem of really good apps.

We're like, emails just got invented era of fediverse. It's having to explain that yes, if you have a Yahoo address you can still email Hotmail users 2 decades ago all over again.

Now that the big ones like Threads and Bluesky are joining, users will be more familiar with the concepts and it'll get less... confusing.