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I am new here can someone explain how this works?
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One thing it's easy to miss about the fediverse is that it's not just lemmy users here. You'll see folks from friendica (which is like facebook) or pixelfed (which is like instagram) or mastodon (which is like twitter) or one of a dozen other services in the comments. Each one of them has a different culture and different ways of interacting, so assuming everyone is gonna act like you're used to from reddit is going to serve you poorly. My best advice is to always be actively kind to other people, and try not to complain too much about the mods or the admins -- no-one's get paid to be here (and many of us are actively paying for server fees) and no-one can stop you from saying anything you want, because you can always start your own community or stand up your own instance.
so I'm curious about the other platforms being here - how do I tell who they are?
How can I interact with those platforms from my lemmy instance?
Its something I don't understand but think would be awesome and improve my lemmy experience greatly if I had those as part of my lemmy feed if thats possible?
Thanks in advance
You'll start to recognize the larger instances after a bit. The domain/instance name sometimes has a hint as to what kind of platform it is.
Lemmy gets along well with "Threadiverse" (Reddit-like) instances: Lemmy, PieFed, and Mbin. Searching for Communities (subreddits) will automatically fetch the community list from the other platforms and you can join/subscribe like you would on Reddit. So, it should be easy for you to access those.
If you're on PieFed, they take it a little further and allow you to combine similar communities across platforms into a single "Feed". A few 3rd party apps for Lemmy allow you to do something similar. Just keep in mind that different instances will usually have slightly different rules/mods for similar communities.
Lemmy doesn't interact too well with Mastodon (Twitter-like) instances. But those users can see our activity and comment on posts at will. You can reply to them just like any other user once they've commented on a post that you can see.
Mbin instances support a little bit of peeking into the Mastodon side, and PieFed supports it a bit more. For instance, following users will pull their posts into a catch-all "Microblogs" community that other users on the threadiverse can interact with. Ex:
!microblogs@piefed.social
There are even some "bridge" accounts that have the potential to link up Mastodon and BlueSky users... But as far as I've seen on the threadiverse side, only PieFed users have recently been able to take advantage of that.
You likely won't see too many users from Threads. A decent number of instances block Meta and any Threads user would also need to enable something in their account settings to see outside of their bubble.
Mostly, you can’t tell. There are some tells, for instance comments will often start by at mentioning op, and posts to communities will at mention the community in the post body, but oftentimes you just won’t notice. There’s a reasonable chance you’ve already read and/or replied to someone on another service already.
I haven’t used lemmy in a year or so now, but last I knew, lemmy did not support following users directly. Piefed does, and I’m told mbin does as well. And let me tell you, having the capybara every hour account (@capybarahourly@mastodon.social) and the zoo twitter mirror account (@zootweetmirrorbot@mastodon.ai) in my feed has, in fact, greatly improved my experience.