Asklemmy

Wanna try something crazy? Go to a mastodon instance like this one and put @[email protected] on the searchbar there.

or do the inverse, look for someone local to mastodon, like @[email protected] and search in our searchbar. Result.

I think this works even for unfederated things, then by doing that you end up federating them to the whole server.

edit: I say this because sometimes I tried searching for something/someone specific on another domain and nothing came up :S

What is really cool is that you can mix and match features, like if you follow a Mastodon user on Misskey and vice versa, the Mastodon user can see the Misskey users full 5000 character post, even though Mastodon is limited to 500 chars.

I agree. I'm sad at the loss of my 12 year account over there and all the information it had built up. I'm sad to lose my niche hobby communities (for now). Even with that, I'm really hopeful that federated social media will eventually take off. Now we just need to make sure that major corporate interests don't dig their gross claws into it (Meta is apparently making plans to do so).

I think your example of email and SMS messages is a good analogy... Just because they can talk to each other doesn't mean the presentation is always correct. For example I'm on Lemmy, and I have seen replies by people on Mastodon in these threads. However the Mastodon replies have a different formatting so you will see the leading @user1 @user2 types stuff on those replies which really stands out when you're reading from a threaded interface. And I can't imagine how you would navigate through a lemmy/kbin post while using Mastodon.

So yes, you could get to everything from a single user account, but I find it better to still have different accounts on Lemmy and Mastodon just to make it easier to view things in the intended presentation method. Maybe some day there will be flags embedded in each post so that one interface knows how to properly format what you are reading, we're just not there yet.

Glad it's starting to make sense. And notice here that instead of replying on Lemmy, from my lemmy.ca account I am replying from Kbin, on my kbin.social account.

but it isn't easy to email a phone number,

Mildly off topic, and showing my age a bit on this one but it 100% is easy, as long as the telco in question supports it.

I used to be with Koodo up here in Canada (albeit this was years ago) and the ability to send/receive emails via your phone number was trivial. Literally could email 5555555555[AT]msg.koodomobile.com and it would be received, and when you reply the other side gets the email reply.

Whether companies still do this on the other hand, is the question (that no one asked lol).

It's easier if you imagine that kbin and Lemmy are simply the underlying email servers in this analogy and the email itself (content) is what's happening across the ActivityPub protocol.

Oh nice! How are you able to pull up mastodon users on Lemmy? I've never been able to get the search to work

EDIT: I found a mastodon.online user but don't have the option to follow. Someone let me in on the secret!