This question is especially for people who have joined in the last week. Have you used other fediverse platforms or is this your first time really using one? What do you think of it so far? Are you aware that you can comment on Lemmy posts with a Mastodon account?

  • NikskoEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Been on Mastodon for a while since the Twitter crap. Signed up to a Lemmy instance just now and so far so good!

    One question for the more seasoned folk: from my Mastodon client, I can see some Lemmy communities if I search @<community>@<server>, but I can’t see any posts. It just shows empty, but the count of posts says there are posts. Is this some sort of lag, or a setting of the Mastodon server I’m on?

    Also are these communities associated with an instance, or do they exist across all instances? I’m assuming the former? And what does that mean if there are multiple communities with the same name on different servers?

    EDIT: Ok now I’m seeing some of the posts in my Mastodon client, so the answer to my first question seems to be ‘yes, some sort of federation issue’

    • Distantdeath@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is the first time you search a @community@server your home Lemmy instance discovers it, and you will see future posts but not posts from before the discovery. It only takes one person in a Lemmy instance to discover a community for the whole instance to benefit. So if I was on the same Lemmy server as you and searched /discovered the community a week before, you would see 7 days of posts.

      I think funny@server1 and funny@server2 are two separate communities which could be a good thing but also confusing to new users.

    • Jonamerica @midwest.socialEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You can follow a community in Mastodon, but it treats each comment as a toot, so an active post can flood your stream. It’s not a great integration. I’m watching Kbin with a lot of interest because it combines Reddit-like links with comments (which they call Threads) and Mastodon-like toots (which they call microblogging) into “Magazines,” so you can have both in one place. Right now Kbin doesn’t have as many servers as Lemmy and the main server (Kbin.social) is getting hammered, so it’s difficult to use.