I am new here can someone explain how this works? (self.asklemmy)

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So i was earlier at mainstream social media apps, by it was very shitty(dumb people), then I went to reddit, after some while I realised it's also shit(clown people and dumb mods, like no freedom). So now I found this. I have few queries- 1.How does fediverse and lemmy work, couldn't find much on the Internet and AI wasn't much help either. 2.Whats the environment here? 3.What all words and how freedom is allowed here? 4.What are some general rules/unspoken tradition to follow if any? 5.Anything else u wanna tell about

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[-] QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social 2 points 12 hours ago

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.

[-] Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 minutes ago

That's cool. If I wanted to see Bluesky posts from piefed, how could I do that?

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