@youshouldknow YSK that you can post to Lemmy from Mastodon, and Mastodon users can interact in Lemmy threads. This is a Mastodon account.
Seems like there’s a new wave of Lemmy users, thought they may find that interesting! It can also work with other Fediverse software as well. It’s all interconnectable. It’s not perfect and there’s some quirks due to Lemmy being a forum and Mastodon being a microblog. But you can ping Mastodon users in threads, and they can reply seamlessly.
I’ve tried explaining the fed to my friends and family like “it’s like insta and FB and xitter and reddit all got to talk to one another and there’s different organizations like email has”. I’m not sure they get it much better.
I just explain but starting how you can email gmail from Outlook and such ( familiar concept). Then tell them you could email a Facebook account using
username@facebook.com(this shows they were open to it at some point), that it was a default state of things because they wanted you connected. But then they realized they can make you sign up to their own website and make more money, so now we need account for everything. But imagine you didn’t, you could access different contents in the UI/format you want. You don’t need to share screenshots of different social media (shows why it’s useful), you could just follow different people from different websites.So far this explanation has worked. I haven’t converted anyone, but they understand. Sometimes they try to install and see, then say “the things I want are not here” because we don’t have all the niche
I’ve converted no one. But I get the most tempted looks when I say: there are no ads, and when you search for anime, noone is adding that to their secret database of your likes
Especially when you try to expliain that you can send stuff from mastodon to lemmy, but not lemmy to mastodon, unless it’s just tagging a user, and then it’s only on certain platforms.
We all play together, but we don’t all play the same way and it’s not always nice.