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.
Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this. 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? How can I tell if a post I’m seeing on lemmy originated on mastodon, pixelfed, etc.? For example, this post about unclogging a toilet. I can see that it was posted by SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works. I assumed that the “@sh.itjust.works” part just pertained to the instance of lemmy the post originated from. If this post had come from mastodon, would there be more info somewhere from which I can tell the origin? Thanks.
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.
Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this. 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? How can I tell if a post I’m seeing on lemmy originated on mastodon, pixelfed, etc.? For example, this post about unclogging a toilet. I can see that it was posted by SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works. I assumed that the “@sh.itjust.works” part just pertained to the instance of lemmy the post originated from. If this post had come from mastodon, would there be more info somewhere from which I can tell the origin? 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!