that's not true, there are multiple reasons one might like to, such as if you are interested in content that is blocked by one instance, particular if you want to access content on instance a and also content on instance b, and instance a blocks instance B, or vice versa.
you could want to have separate personalities, one that you discuss your expertise as a mechanic, and another that you use to talk about your expertise as a Furry.
You might want a sock account to argue with people without getting negative votes on your primary account, etc.
Can someone help me see how the cross apps thing works? Like can you link some mastodon post that I can see here on lemmy?
lemmy isn't designed to do that, but mastodon is. For example if you paste the perma-link for your comment https://lemmus.org/comment/791388 into the search bar of your Mastodon account on Theres.life you'd find the same content at https://theres.life/@faintwhenfree@lemmus.org/110834025709111907
deleted
maybe, maybe not. Particularly if your account is followed by anyone with a platform that doesn't support DELETE from remote servers, like like earlier versions of Diaspora and GNU Social. and yoru delete command might not work such as if the remote server is down when the delete request is sent. Once you choose delete most platforms send a request to every server that it knows of to delete the same, if it doesn't get a response within a certain amount of time it will request it again, and after so many failures it stops trying. The server could later come back up and it never know that the item was deleted.
I'm not sure aware off hand of any servers that make it easy for admins to turn off the ability to delete, but its Free Software so anyone could download the source code edit it as they see fit, like removing the delete function, compile it and run it on their own server.
Its a really great reminder that we all should assume anything that has ever been posted on the internet will exist forever. So don't post stuff that is going to come back and haunt you.
I know, but having separate accounts within the interfaces of each site can be helpful. If I have a Mastodon account, I know exactly how my posts are going to look and act on Mastodon. Same goes with Lemmy and Kbin.
I also have access to features on one service I wouldn't have on others. Some posts are easier to view and access from a different site or instance. Kbin doesn't have any mobile apps yet, so I use my Lemmy account when I want to access fed on mobile.
Lastly, sometimes I'm just in the mood to use one site over the other. If I'm in the mood for more Twittery content I go to Mastodon. If I'm in a more Reddit mood, I go on Lemmy. If I want to do both at the same time, I use Kbin.
They're both Reddit-esque Fediverse platforms, but are developed and maintained by different people.
Lemmy has been around longer, so it is probably more robust, but Kbin has more features, including the ability to follow individual users across the 'verse, and has support for a number of Fedi groups, including Friendica Forums and Guppe Groups, that Lemmy has no support for.
It is its own community that happens to be federated with Lemmy and Mastodon. You can toggle federation on and off, and when off, you only see kbin's material. Otherwise it functionally acts like another lemmy instance, with a different interface and features missing from base lemmy.
There is also a microblog attached to it that connects with Mastodon in the same way. Each community has its own microblog that acts as a hashtag when on Mastodon.
This I didn't know. So posting a comment on the microblog will make it visible to Mastodon as well?
And Lemmy, they all talk to each other via ActivityPub. There's a number of commenters in this thread that are commenting from Mastodon and Kbin (like yourself) while I'm on Lemmy.
Lemmy isn't designed to access microblogs or follow individual users though, so you'd probably never see it from Lemmy.
This is where I link my own post from a few days ago - but basically to say kbin is actually a very good way to browse Mastodon "Toots", and yes you can post just as easily too.
https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/275724/Browsing-the-wider-fediverse-from-kbin
i'm pretty sure when federation is off it also means you won't see other kbin instances, just your own
They are different platforms, you can access Lemmy communities from Kbin, where it looks just like a kbin magazine, or from Friendica, where it looks just like a Friendica Forum, of from Mastodon, where it looks like an annoying bot that re-posts every comment as a separate Re-toot. ---
There are many other Fediverse platforms but those are the ones I have the most experience with.
Interesting. I haven't yet seen actual federation. (That I was aware of, anyway.)
How would I access something on Mastodon from Lemmy (for example)?
that's why you have separate profile pics for each service, to help you recognize which you're seeing!
Exactly. The problem is what do I do when I have more accounts than there are Eeveelutions?
Why are you using multiple accounts? You DO know you can read/write posts across servers, right? Like me right now posting a comment to Lemmy from Kbin.
I do know, and I do it cause I can. The features and UI are different from site to site, and sometimes I'm a Reddit classic mood, Twitter mood, or a combination of the two. It's the same content, but different ways of experiencing and interacting with it you know? Plus until Kbin gets mobile app support, I have my Lemmy account for Sync.
If you haven't yet, you should try loading kbin as a progressive web app. I find it works quite well that way.
Is Mastadon just Lemmy with extra restrictions? Like, can't they see posts like mine, which bare no character limit?
