934
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Puffymumpkins@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

I've been exploring the fediverse and subbing and posting all over the damn place. Realizing lemmy can federate with kbin blew my mind. Not to mention the possibility of turning my old laptop into a personal server to host my own instance. Is this what it felt like to discover how the internet worked in the 90s?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] anathem@toot.kif.rocks 2 points 1 year ago

@MrFlamey Using your Mastodon account, you could even follow a lemmy community; and fav, boost and comment on their posts (like I did just with your comment). Just copy the URL to anything on the fediverse, paste it into the search box of your Mastodon client: you're good to go!

Longer explanation: https://toot.kif.rocks/@anathem/110565430770229960

[-] MrFlamey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks. Seems to let me follow them, but I can't see the posts in mastodon, only by following the link through to the lemmy community. I guess I should try commenting from Mastodon or something. It's fine though, I will get used to it eventually :)

[-] anathem@toot.kif.rocks 2 points 1 year ago

@MrFlamey Give it some time. If you follow a lemmy community, all posts of that community will _from now on_ reach your Mastodon instance and be displayed there. There is no retroactive synchronization.

(The exception to this is when someone from your Mastodon instance already followed that community in the past: Then somebody else already did make those posts available to your instance and you can immediately see some posting history of that community.)

this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
934 points (99.0% liked)

Lemmy.World Announcements

28383 readers
8 users here now

This Community is intended for posts about the Lemmy.world server by the admins.

Follow us for server news ๐Ÿ˜

Outages ๐Ÿ”ฅ

https://status.lemmy.world

For support with issues at Lemmy.world, go to the Lemmy.world Support community.

Support e-mail

Any support requests are best sent to info@lemmy.world e-mail.

Report contact

Donations ๐Ÿ’—

If you would like to make a donation to support the cost of running this platform, please do so at the following donation URLs.

If you can, please use / switch to Ko-Fi, it has the lowest fees for us

Ko-Fi (Donate)

Bunq (Donate)

Open Collective backers and sponsors

Patreon

Join the team

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS