Can someone explain to me what is the link between Mastodon and Lemmy? From the Wikipedia chart, it looks like ActivityPub links them together in some fashion; I just don't get how.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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All those users who were told "Please move from lemmy.ml to somewhere else. It'll crash. Please spread out" are now seeing why :))
I saw a reddit post about alternatives and lemmy was what stuck out the most, and then there was another about how it works (not that indepth) and from there I got to lemmy.world and been here since yesterday
Federation was very hard for me to comprehend at the beginning, but it all clicked once I read a little of the documentation.
The only problem with federation is duplicate communities, and I donβt even see that as being necessarily a bad thing. Iβll subscribe to multiple communities for the same thing and if, over time, I end up getting annoyed with some of them Iβll just unsubscribe.
On one hand, yeah, federation is cool. On the other, I've already seen two @Technology communities on two different instances, and I can see this issue becoming even worse.
A good solution would be to have some mechanism of merging same-named communities of multiple instances. But, alas, nothing like that afaik
It'd be cool if there was some mechanism where Community A could follow Community B, so that all posts from Community B automatically show up in A. This way, you could also aggregate communities with different names, create multiple custom front pages etc.