this post was submitted on 02 May 2023
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mastodon, lemmy and a few other softwares can speak activityPub, a standard, just like e-mail is one. You can follow a user, read their posts etc. Lemmy uses this differently than mastodon, where on lemmy there is an emphasis on the groups feature (which is shown on lemmy through the reddit like communities), while mastodon focuses on users and their posts. It's not yet 100% compatible in all ways, but it's getting there. For example you can follow a lemmy community from a mastodon server and you'll see that community as a groups that boosts all the posts and comments that are made. Something like that ^^
I don't even understand it 100% anymore, it's getting more complicate the more things are built. But I think in the future it will get easier and each software (lemmy, mastodon, etc) will focus on something and then have a set feature set of what they can do with other servers.
That's what I'm feeling as a new user looking for a reddit alternative. This whole thing shows a lot of promise, but it feels very complicated and not especially intuitive. That's ok, though, nothing wrong with complex, it just going to take some getting used to.