If you’ve ever used TikTok, Instagram, or X/Twitter, you will already be familiar with centralised social media.Centralised social media means big company owns the app, controls the software, and keeps all your data.
So if I post a meme to c/tenforward, people on mastodon and pixelfed can see it if they subscribe to @tenforward, is that correct?
Yep! I’m not sure how it works for pixelfed but I think I remember something about text posts so I would assume it works the same there.
Afaik the way to tell if a user is on Mastodon vs Lemmy/mbin/etc is if the instance part of their username is a path instead of a bare domain, it’s something like user@instance.com/users or something that includes “user” in the path, I can’t remember exactly and I can’t find an example but if you look at usernames enough you’ll find one.
Edit: Actually maybe that changed because I found a comment from Mastodon and it looks normal just with a domain that you can see is a mastodon instance when you visit it, so idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Edit 2: I double checked in the sync app and it looks like users from mastodon show up as someone@instance.com/users/someone so it looks like it’s a UI specific thing
Actually maybe that changed because I found a comment from Mastodon and it looks normal just with a domain that you can see is a mastodon instance when you visit it, so idk ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Could you please link to the example comment referenced? I want to check it out. Thanks.
Yep! I’m not sure how it works for pixelfed but I think I remember something about text posts so I would assume it works the same there.
Afaik the way to tell if a user is on Mastodon vs Lemmy/mbin/etc is if the instance part of their username is a path instead of a bare domain, it’s something like
user@instance.com/usersor something that includes “user” in the path, I can’t remember exactly and I can’t find an example but if you look at usernames enough you’ll find one.Edit: Actually maybe that changed because I found a comment from Mastodon and it looks normal just with a domain that you can see is a mastodon instance when you visit it, so idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Edit 2: I double checked in the sync app and it looks like users from mastodon show up as
someone@instance.com/users/someoneso it looks like it’s a UI specific thingThank you so much!
Could you please link to the example comment referenced? I want to check it out. Thanks.
Sure here’s one I found of a Mastodon user making a post in a Lemmy community, they also comment so you can see how that looks as well:
https://feddit.org/post/12492506
Conveniently the post is about how interoperability between Lemmy / mastodon works haha
Thank you!