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YSK You can browse, upvote, reply, follow and post on Lemmy using a Mastodon account. Short guide.

vijayprema.com Reddit exodus - Using Lemmy from my existing Mastodon

Many are turning to Lemmy as a viable Reddit alternative. Here is how to use your existing Mastodon account with Lemmy.

These instructions don't appear to be documented. Here's a post from a bit while ago that covers the basic functions of participating on Lemmy via Mastodon mentions.

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The fact that The Fediverse apps are compatible with each other is amazing. This in theory means that one can create your own Fediverse app as long as its compliant to the specifications, right? For example, we could create a LinkedIn clone or something similar?
- Yes, and there are already lots of different ones that, at least partially, work together:
  Don’t know if there is something LinkedIn like though
  
  That looks out of date, Kbin has been replaced my Mbin pretty much.
  
  Is that the same pic I’ve seen posted for like two years now? Are half of those still around? Are many new ones missing?
  
  kbin has been discontinued but there is a fork called mbin, piefed and loops are missing and some very small projects, also bridgyfed isn’t there but it’s still a pretty good overview
  
  I'd say it's missing NodeBB forum software since they just added ActivityPub support.
  
  WordPress now doesn't need a plugin anymore, ActivityPub has beek built into the main product. As for the rest, I think the Key software went through three or four popular forks, but everything in the pic is open source and can still be run if you'd like to.
  Source control software like Gitea and Gitlab are working on a federated system for bug reports and comments over ActivityPub. When that lands, the Fediverse will suddenly get a lot bigger, although sites like Lemmy won't be able to do much with those new servers.
- You can create anything that abides by the spec and it should somewhat work. However, Lemmy won't know what to do with a stream of Location objects and Mastodon won't know how to deal with replies on a calendar event. Most of the Fediverse maps their functionality onto a subset of the protocol that's implemented by most other servers.
  There's absolutely nothing stopping you from creating a Fediverse LinkedIn that can work together with the rest of the Fediverse. Same with a federated 4chan or a federated review website. The spec is quite open ended. The challenge is finding enough people willing to join your server, and moderating the initial servers. That last part is mostly unsolved because only a sliver of the population wants to moderate and with no clear direction from above, having a solid moderation policy is effectively impossible.
- Yes, but the spec is intentionally flexible about some things, so a bit of work has to be done to ensure compatibility.

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