So I’ve been trying to get myself accustomed to this place and understand whats going on.
To my understanding: -There are Lemmy instances -Instances communicate with each other to create the “Lemmyverse” -There a larger version of this that encapsulates all (or a lot of) services that use ActivityPub called the “Fediverse”
My question is how or if would I interact with said other services from Lemmy? Is that possible? Could I say, see Mastodon or Peertube content from Lemmy? If I can, how? Do I sign up to those sevices with my existing Lemmy account? Can or will I soon be able to interact with everything through one account? Because that seems to me like it should be possible assuming everything and everyone is federated.
How is Lemmy interconnected with the Fediverse right now, and how might it become further connected in the future?
At the moment Lemmy and Kbin federate exactly, Lemmy communities and Kbin magazines federate 1:1 with upvotes, downvotes, comments, all working as expected.
Mastodon users can follow communities and magazines as though they were users, post to them, and see replies. Although they see everything linearly. If you ever see a community post that starts by tagging the community that likely came from mastodon.
Lemmy does not currently, and may never, allow you to follow mastodon users or tags. Kbin offers a microblog view that does display mastodon content in its intended form.
I hope Lemmy at least adds the ability to follow other lemmings so their posts appear in the feed.
Though, then I don’t see why it wouldn’t work with mastodon users too, since they just seem to be treated as regular lemmings in their profile and all, aside from the tagging.
I know following users was a pretty big sticking point on reddit, it was certainly a feature I had no interest in using, but it’s a lot more interesting here with federated interoperability. Regardless, I think it’ll be a while before the lemmy devs even have time to think about features like that.
Magazines? I apparently missed something so far.
Kbin calls them magazines. Same thing.
I know this is a thing, I’ve seen people doing exactly this, but I still have zero clue how to do it or how it works.