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I am new to the Fediverse. I vaguely understand how Lemmy instances broadcast content to each other, but I was surprised to find Lemmy communities on kbin. How does that work? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by GoodKingElliot@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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And it also seems that mastodon can also be "syndicated" to these other communities, and vice versa? Is that true?

Are there limitations to any of this?

Apologies if this is not the perfect place to ask this question. I'm a lost old man. :-)

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[–] GoodKingElliot@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thank you. That makes a lot of sense. I didn't know they spoke the same underlying protocol.
For fun and experimentation, I'm answering you from my Kbin account. I feel like a kid in a candy store playing with this new technology. Maybe Reddit's suicide-by-greed is not entirely a bad thing.

[–] kinyutaka@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] mycus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wanna try something crazy? Go to a mastodon instance like this one and put @asklemmy@lemmy.ml on the searchbar there.

or do the inverse, look for someone local to mastodon, like @stux@mstdn.social 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

[–] VeeSilverball@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

To get the initial federation going, some kind of "subscribing" action has to take place, e.g. following a user.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Get really wild. Try answering from Calckey, or Friendica. Or see if you can follow a PeerTube channel.