I just made a Piefed.social account today. I’m very familiar with reddit, but after the API changes and all the bullshit that’s been happening with the site lately I want something different. How do I see which communities I’m a part of, the equivalent of subreddits I guess? Where do I go to find new ones? Do I need to be in a singe instance to participate? I’d really like to find the Lemmy equivalent of my favorite subreddits from reddit, but I simply don’t know how to do that.

  • UndergroundGoblin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    381·
    1 day ago

    Each Instance / Server is able to use the data of the Activity Pub Protocol. If you see comments on Lemmy where people use hashtags or mention Users with an “@”, they are probably answering through Mastodon.

    • IronKrill@lemmy.ca
      2·
      12 hours ago

      With just a single account on any most Lemmy server(s) you can read and write everything most things everywhere else.

      Click on the “all” button and you’ll see content from all some subreddits on all some servers.

      I know I am nit-picking, but this over-selling of federation as if it “just works” and takes no manual effort almost drove me away when I first joined. It did and still does drive me away from Mastodon, but Lemmy is not as problematic.

      At any rate, I know we don’t want to overload new users with talks of defederation and unfederated content, but pretending it doesn’t exist makes for a very frustrating time the first time someone realises they can’t see 50% of the posts or thinks Lemmy as a whole is really quiet when it’s because their server isn’t federated 100% with every other server.

        • can@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          13 hours ago

          Yeah, this was a graphic I saw early on when I joined, and while useful at the time, it’s very outdated now and a bit too information dense to be effective for onboarding

          For those not aware, Beehaw already had a community going before the API disaster brought a large amount of users to Lemmy. Once new instances popped up, and the overall userbase increased by something like 700%, they decided to defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. Citing issues with scaling moderation efforts.

    • wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org
      1·
      22 hours ago

      I’m also pretty new around here and I understand the connection between the lemmy instances but how does mastodon fit into this? Can I comment here with my mastodon account and vice versa?

      • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        21 hours ago

        You can follow Lemmy communities on Mastodon but that will cause every single comment to appear in your feed, so depending on how much activity they get, they will probably flood your feed. You can post to Lemmy communities from Mastodon by mentioning them, to the best of my knowledge. In either case you can reply to whatever you see on Mastodon and it will appear as a Lemmy comment.

        You cannot follow Mastodon accounts on Lemmy.