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I'm glad this community is here because I feel very stupid. I've seen videos likening the fediverse to email and phone networks. Some of what I've seen implies that not only are lemmy instances connected but lemmy instances can also be connected with mastodon, peertube, and others. Is this true? How to I connect to other instances or even other platforms?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

If you want your posts to be seen on Mastodon, you're supposed to tag the instance in your post/comment. Though I'm not sure what the proper way to tag them is; I've only seen like 2 posts actually showing this off.

The other part of it is that you can have an account on Lemmy.World and still see and post to other instances on Lemmy. Like, I'm on Yiffit.net seeing this post and making this comment to Lemmy.World without having to log into my Lemmy.World account.

I don't know how many, if any, other federated/activitypub things are integrated with Lemmy. They could be, supposedly, but it has to be programmed into the thing you're using. It doesn't just connect up automatically just because it uses the same underlying bedrock. Example: BlueSky is supposed to be a federated product, but it doesn't integrate into other fediverse things AFAIK.