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What is the difference between Lemmy and Mastodon? (lemm.ee)
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I seem to find most of the stuff I read posted both on Lemmy and Mastodon. What is the connection? What is the difference?

I do understand it's too different platforms (servers, code bases), but what is the intersection between them?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Lemmy is more like reddit where you post to communities and Mastodon is more like Twitter where you can do microblogging to your followers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Difference: Lemmy is like a bunch of forums like Mastodon is a bunch of blogs.

Intersection: ultimately they're for people talking about stuff. Plus Mastodon and Lemmy instances can connect to each other, for example you can mention a Lemmy comm from a Mastodon toot and it'll create a thread in that Lemmy comm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

you can mention a Lemmy comm from a Mastodon toot and it’ll create a thread in that Lemmy comm

Thanks! Yes, this is probably the relationship between them I couldn't put my finger on. But do all the replies to the Lemmy comm automatically get mirrored as replies in the Mastodon toot as well?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

But do all the replies to the Lemmy comm automatically get mirrored as replies in the Mastodon toot as well?

Yes! Here's an example of that:

  1. https://poliversity.it/@memento/114231009981304756
  2. https://feddit.it/post/16044178?scrollToComments=true

#1 was posted in the Mastodon instance poliversity.it. Since it included the string @scienza, it got cross-posted to [email protected], a Lemmy community. Then a Lemmy user commented in #2, and it appears back in #1.