What can Lemmy federate with?
What can Lemmy federate with?
Can Lemmy federate with these platforms?
- Peertube (Video comments)
- Mastodon (Tweets/Toots comments)
- Plemora (Tweets comments)
- Misskey (Tweets comments)
- Plume (Blog post comments)
Mastodon for sure, you can even use mastodon bots from lemmy, and there will be limited compatibilty witth anything else using activity pub.
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So apparently Peertube works well, in part because the structure of the two platforms map onto each other well. Communities -> Posts -> Comments = Channels -> Videos -> Comments.
I experimented once, and from memory you can definitely subscribe to a peertube channel here. But I don't know my way around peertube so I don't know how well it works.
What can Lemmy federate with?
Yes.
In theory, it should work with all of them, but in practice it's messy and clunky as all of them use ActivityPub in subtly different ways, with their own extensions and quirks.
Also Lemmy versions pre 0.18 (i want to say, unsure) won't work with GoToSocial or Mastodon instances with secure mode enabled. The recent versions should though.
I have summarized here what I have found out so far, but is currently only available in German https://handbuch.rollenspiel.monster/lemmy/communication/
Completely unrelated but I'm surprised how well Firefox Nightly's built-in translations worked here. Despite being made just by a few universities, working completely offline, and not having any AI bullshit or Google's infinite money and experience it was still comprehensible enough to understand.
There's also Diaspora, and I don't know if Lemmy can federate with that.
Diaspora doesn't use ActivityPub anymore, right? So probably not.
Diaspora* has never supported ActivityPub and doesn’t intend to.
I've noticed that Lemmy has a hard time federating to non-Lemmy instances. Looking up a user/community on Calckey/Mastodon shows a lot of posts and random things missing.
I noticed this with the blender Peertube instance. Videos are missing.
In theory yes Lemmy should federate with them all of course to be sure if it works on a per instance level you could always try it, As not all mastodon instances seem to work with Lemmy for some reason
Does the mastodon instance need to be up to date for it to work?
Commenting works.
Posting kind of works, bit is kinda wonky because mastodon doesn't have a 'title' field so it just defaults to the first line of the post.