How transferable is this account that I'm posting from across the fediverse?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Cool_Name@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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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deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I’m not on lemmy.world but I can see and reply to content there.

You can view and post on almost any other server.

Like how Reddit posts can link to but are different from YouTube videos, Lemmy posts can reference other services, but they don’t directly interact.

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- Cool_Name@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Thank you. I was frustrated when I found a community from lem.ee and couldn’t log on to lem.ee with my current account. Now I see that I can search it up even though I am on lemmy.world.
  
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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
We had a similar thread recently here: discuss.tchncs.de/post/27868444

You are registered on a Lemmy instance and from those you can only follow communities (that are structured the way Lemmy communities are, but the backend doesn’t need to actually be Lemmy), not people. Mastodon, PeerTube etc. are places where people post to their own profiles, so you can’t follow those from Lemmy, you need to create an account on e.g. Mastodon to do that. You can combine both worlds with some backends (piefed, mbin, friendica).

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- Cool_Name@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Cool, so I probably want mastodon and lemmy accounts, which I already have. But I’ll try to avoid making new accounts if they aren’t necessary. Are there any worthwhile sites that are compatible with lemmy?
  
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  - schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    As I wrote, try looking for a piefed, mbin or friendica instance you like.
    
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Some of the content you are seeing is likely posted from “other platforms”

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I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Supplementary question: what’s the difference with kbin in this regard? Or is it dead.

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- IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Lemmy was closer to reddit than Kbin. Lemmy always had more users and users were more spread out. Kbin basically had like 70% of the users on one instance, the biggest instance is shutting down, there is now only one instance accepting new signups. So yea, seems dead.
  
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  - Blaze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Mbin took over: mbin.fediverse.observer/list
    
    kbin.earth/register is an active instance
    
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- Blaze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Mbin took over: mbin.fediverse.observer/list
  
  kbin.earth/register is an active instance
  
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lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The account is not transferable at all the federated part is you accessing other platforms data from your account. Like email your account is very much tied to the server you setup with. What we need is something like openid like service to just store profile information like subs and creds and other servers to handle the data like pots and comments. Something like that would make it even more complicated like a uri of a comment would be bob@Idserver@PostedViaDataserver. You you would just login as bob@Idserver from any data server.

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- Cool_Name@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Thank you for the info.
  
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