As a new user to all these sites, I’m confused about they interact with each other. For example, on Lemmy, I can view a Mastodon account, but I can’t view that account’s posts. This makes sense, as sorting your home feed by “all” could hypothetically result in your feed getting flooded by popular Mastodon posts.

On the other hand, I understand that Mastodon users can see, reply to Lemmy threads, and subscribe to Lemmy communities. This flow of content makes far more sense than if Lemmy allowed Mastodon posts to be visible.

With all that said, how does Lemmy know to not show Mastodon posts? How does ActivityPub even work? How does ActivityPub understand that certain posts are from certain sites? Aren’t all these sites just different UIs that advertise different servers? I’m not gifted with technical knowledge, but I’m dying to understand how this whole thing works.

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[–] Resol@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We're basically early adopters of this newfangled fediverse technology, it's not gonna work 100% as intended straight away. I just think that it's a lot more difficult to execute such a grand idea on a wide scale. I'm sure in a couple of months (maybe a year or two) we'll see Mastodon posts on Lemmy and be able to interact with those from Lemmy. Who knows? Maybe I'll even have an excuse to use the Threads application by this point. Or maybe not, because fuck Meta.

[–] resol@mastodon.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish I can just merge my two accounts. Man, this fediverse thing is gonna take a while to get used to.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

And would you look at that? It's me again. From Lemmy this time. That one is me from Mastodon.