I’ve seen users from mastodon and friendica comment on lemmy posts, but I’ve never seen posts from instances running non lemmy software show up in my feed. Is this a consequence of different software handling federation differently?
- Ada ( @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•1 year ago
Lemmy only subscribes to other Lemmy instances. Other instances can post here and reply, but any post initially not made to Lemmy won’t show
I imagine that’s a design choice.
There are other group implementations out there though, like gup.pe. It would be nice to see Lemmy be able to federate with other group based platforms
- Ada ( @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•1 year ago
Lemmy only subscribes to other Lemmy instances. Other instances can post here and reply, but any post initially not made to Lemmy won’t show
I imagine that’s a design choice.
There are other group implementations out there though, like gup.pe. It would be nice to see Lemmy be able to federate with other group based platforms
- nutomic ( @nutomic@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
This is not true, Lemmy already federates communities from Friendica, Peertube, Lotide and more. Guppe might also work but I need to see an example group to know how it federates.
- Ada ( @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•1 year ago
Wait, so I can subscribe to a community on Friendica from lemmy?
If so, I have never been more happy to be wrong :)
- Ada ( @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•1 year ago
I’ve just tested this, and I can’t subscribe to Friendica groups.
When I was talking about federating with Friendica in my original reply, that’s really what I meant. The ability for a lemmy instance to follow groups from another group based instance that isn’t lemmy.
I know they federate comments and replies etc, but that isn’t what I was getting at. My wording probably wasn’t as clear as it could have been
- nutomic ( @nutomic@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Which Friendica group are you trying to follow, and do you see anything in the server logs? Would be nice if you can open an issue on Github.
- Ada ( @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•1 year ago
Will do!