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?

  • AdaA
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    11 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@lemmy.ml
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      11 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.

      • AdaA
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        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 :)

        • AdaA
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          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@lemmy.ml

          • @nutomic@lemmy.ml
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            11 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.

            • AdaA
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              21 year ago

              Will do!