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Electronic Frontier Foundation shouted out Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon in their Reddit coverage today: What Reddit Got Wrong (www.eff.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dirtmayor@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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From the article:

"Moving to the Fediverse

This tension between these communities and their host have, again, fueled more interest in the Fediverse as a decentralized refuge. A social network built on an open protocol can afford some host-agnosticism, and allow communities to persist even if individual hosts fail or start to abuse their power. Unfortunately, discussions of Reddit-like fediverse services Lemmy and Kbin on Reddit were colored by paranoia after the company banned users and subreddits related to these projects (reportedly due to “spam”). While these accounts and subreddits have been reinstated, the potential for censorship around such projects has made a Reddit exodus feel more urgently necessary, as we saw last fall when Twitter cracked down on discussions of its Fediverse-alternative, Mastodon."

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[–] zhunk@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait, does Lemmy federate with Mastodon? How does that work?

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

On mastodon search for the account @news@beehaw.org it will be this lemmy sub but in mastodon. Commenting on posts in mastodon will also comment on the lemmy thread.

[–] TexasCrowbarMassacre@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you upvote or downvote posts through Mastodon? Or does that have to be done from a Lemmy instance?

[–] OneFluffyBoi@octodon.social 11 points 1 year ago

@TexasCrowbarMassacre On the Mastodon side of things, we have a like button that's basically an upvote, but there's no equivalent of a downvote. So we can upvote, but not downvote.

[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

This blew my mind. What else can we deep fry...err, I mean link together?

[–] zhunk@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm. I can see that account, but I don't see any posts (in the Mastodon app).

[–] lindgrenj6@fosstodon.org 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it could be that your instance doesn't have the post (e.g. no one else in the instance is following the account). Fediverse stuff is weird in that regard where it won't fetch them from the other server either, but they will show up going forward if you follow the account.

[–] zhunk@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Ah, so when I subscribe and it shows up as "pending", that's me trying to connect the two?

Still learning, thanks for the help.

[–] g0nz0li0@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

This is so incredibly cool and helpful, thanks so much for pointing this out!

[–] lindgrenj6@fosstodon.org 8 points 1 year ago

I assume it's through activity pub - that's how pixelfed and mastodon communicate as well.

What I'm not sure of is if beehaw uses activity pub internally or it's just there for fediverse integration.