@ fediverse Have you ever wondered how Lemmy and Mastodon federate?

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@fediverse Have you ever wondered how Lemmy and Mastodon federate?

Well, I made a few tests and put it all in an easy to read table! Take a look!

gist.github.com/helloyanis/c20

Some things may be wrong or missing but if you notice that, tell me and I'll update it!

(Yeah! I'm even posting this from Mastodon! How cool is that?)

#fediverse #mastodon #lemmy #federation

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They can indeed federate, but IMO it's not useful beyond simple posts.

There is no way to "sync" the text heading/URL/thumbnail.

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This is a neat overview!! I like to federate my posts from microblogs as well, and did some tests.

Here are a few of my notes:

Viewing communities (from Mastodon) - that kind of depends? All communities I follow show up with their posts intact on mastodon (.social), but not when I use a different instance (e.g. mastodon.de) or software (examples: @renpy@discuss.tchncs.de" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">RenPy, @otomegames@ani.social" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">Otome Games)

Viewing profiles (from Mastodon) - That also seems to depend on the instance. For example, @Berin@discuss.tchncs.de/with_replies" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">here's my profile as seen from mastodon.social. Viewing it from my Mastodon account, I can see all of the original posts and replies.

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thanks a bunch for your contribution <3

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Nice. Now try PieFed and MBin 😊 They should have some more compatibility beyond their own niche.

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Would be great to have all posts on the frontpage of mastodon.social automatical federated to a community in feddit.org
(Like rss feed.) So I don't have to use two Apps/Browser-Tabs and have all Information in one App/Browser-Tab.

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