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"Moving to the Fediverse

This tension between these communities and their host have, again, fueled more interest in the Fediverse as a decentralized refuge. A social network built on an open protocol can afford some host-agnosticism, and allow communities to persist even if individual hosts fail or start to abuse their power. Unfortunately, discussions of Reddit-like fediverse services Lemmy and Kbin on Reddit were colored by paranoia after the company banned users and subreddits related to these projects (reportedly due to “spam”). While these accounts and subreddits have been reinstated, the potential for censorship around such projects has made a Reddit exodus feel more urgently necessary, as we saw last fall when Twitter cracked down on discussions of its Fediverse-alternative, Mastodon."

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            Can you upvote or downvote posts through Mastodon? Or does that have to be done from a Lemmy instance?

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            Hmm. I can see that account, but I don’t see any posts (in the Mastodon app).

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              it could be that your instance doesn’t have the post (e.g. no one else in the instance is following the account). Fediverse stuff is weird in that regard where it won’t fetch them from the other server either, but they will show up going forward if you follow the account.

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                Ah, so when I subscribe and it shows up as “pending”, that’s me trying to connect the two?

                Still learning, thanks for the help.

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                  Kinda. You’re server will not back-populate old posts from someone you just followed. However, you should get all future posts.

                  If you find a thread on Lemmy and you want to comment on it in Mastodon, but you can’t find it normally, you can copy the URL to the thread or comment, paste it in Mastodon search, and then it should force-load that post. Then you can reply and comment on it as normal.

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          I assume it’s through activity pub - that’s how pixelfed and mastodon communicate as well.

          What I’m not sure of is if beehaw uses activity pub internally or it’s just there for fediverse integration.

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      I completely agree with this and I think it’s because of the legal issues it avoids. I’m not a lawyer, but if I’m not mistaken, the entire fediverse doesn’t take a hit if a single server is a bad actor. Whereas sites like Reddit and Twitter need to defend themselves based on the content users generate.