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[–] [email protected] 80 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I was wondering what was going on with that post. I’m glad it resonated with people across the fediverse. Cool!

Now I’ve got to figure out how to log into Mastadon with my Lemmy account. I didn’t even realize this was a thing.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] You can't log into other Fediverse services using your Lemmy account. It's a Lemmy account for your specific Lemmy instance and doesn't work anywhere else.

What you can do is talk to people on other Fediverse services with your Lemmy account on your instance in the same way you are communicating with people from other Lemmy instances.

For example, the op you are replying to is using Friendica, you are using Lemmy and I am using Firefish right now.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

I like to explain it like email or even phone providers. You can call someone on Verizon even if you're on ATT but you can't pay Verizon for your ATT bill

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Iirc, you can't log into Mastadon with a lemmy account, but there should be a way to follow a mastodon account from a lemmy instance. Never tried it, though.

Edit: Apparently, it's not possible either. Mastodon users can follow lemmy communities, but not the other way around. 😔

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

@janAkali @maxprime You certainly can follow Lemmy groups from Mastodon. And you can reply to Lemmy threads from Masto.

In fact, take a look at my account — I'm doing it right now...

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is so wholesome, the world needs to support teachers like this!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just echoing a class I had in high school.

My social studies teacher ran the whole year as "micro community." There were three different classes per year, and each class was a community. Each student had a role within the community, and performed actual job duties necessary to keep things functioning. For example, I was a banker and had to cash checks. After tests, we got checks based on test scores, so you got (fake) money to spend on stuff. We had to pay a utility bill or he would turn off the lights and not use the projector for notes. The kid running the power company would collect that money.

The best part was the stock market. Each community was also a company whose share value depended on overall test scores. So you could invest in whichever class you thought would score the highest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Wow! That is so creative and thoughtful. I wish everyone has a teacher like that who truly loves the profession and respects the impact they have on their students' lives.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

I hope this is real; and if it is, I hope there are more teachers like this.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's the most intricate way I've ever heard of someone trying to find a meme they once saved and can't find it

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Federated alternative to shXtter

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

The formerly successful site known as Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

or (ex)twitter

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

Mastodon is to Twitter as Lemmy is to Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Way to make me feel silly for having both an account on both a Mastodon server and a Lemmy server! ;)

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I love both Mastodon and Lemmy, but they usually don't federate very well with each other, so one cannot replace the other: Lemmy users cannot see microblog posts which aren't connected to any community and Mastodon doesn't show the body of Lemmy posts. Currently trying out Friendica, which manages all parts of the Fediverse reasonably well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Interesting - will look into Friendica. I just hacked up the latest stable release of Lemmy to run on OpenBSD but it’s not something I think I want to maintain long-term. Looking for something that will last a while, kinda like email but maybe not that long!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is it possible to migrate from Mastodon to friendica? And how are the mobile apps?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

@Bebo
You can always migrate, but sadly there is no way to import your profile directly from Mastodon. The two best apps, Fedilab and Relatica, are fine but rather limited in functionality, so I often end up using the web version.

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