this post was submitted on 31 May 2023
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[–] benad@mstdn.party 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

@dessalines Wow, my reply using a Mastodon web client ( https://elk.zone/ ) actually gets picked up by the Lemmy server!

If Apollo were to be rewritten as a Lemmy / ActivityPub client, it could inter-operate with all those new Mastodon clients too...

[–] JackFromWisconsin@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would be something - all of the major reddit clients pivot to bring Lemmy or other fediverse clients.

[–] pitninja@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What a fantastic idea. They don't even have to necessarily pivot their apps to actually be Lemmy clients to deliver a massive "fuck you" to Reddit. They collectively have a large install base. Instead of a warning banner saying, "This app will cease functioning on July 1 (or whatever the date is)," they could add, "Check out our new community over on Lemmy [with a link to whichever Lemmy client]." If I were a Reddit app dev, I would 100% be incorporating this threat into my talks with their team about the forthcoming reddit API.

[–] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

so for you, are you just seeing posts from this community as it's own user?

[–] benad@mstdn.party 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@ImOnADiet Yes. I was able to search and find @opensource as a “user” in my Mastodon clients.

[–] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

that's pretty neat actually

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're viewing this post from the Lemmy webpage (lemmygrad.ml, in your case), you can click on the rainbow-colored Fediverse icon to see how it looks like from their end.

[–] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Ah cool, thanks for letting me know!

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I see entire threads that are populated by replies from Mastodon (and similar services) users. As someone who has been using Lemmy before federation it is nice to see.