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ActivityPub magic? (furry.engineer)
submitted 1 year ago by bristle@furry.engineer to c/tech@pawb.social

ActivityPub magic?

So you can tag Lemmy communities from Mastodon like @tech and it just makes a new thread on Lemmy?

My imagination is a bit small, so I'm not seeing the immediate utility of this. How do you vote/downvote? How do you subscribe to a community? Those interfaces aren't present on Mastodon.

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[-] dipolecat@yiff.life 2 points 1 year ago

@bristle @tech I assumed that a masto fav became an upvote, and that Lemmy would lack downvotes. The latter is apparently wrong but there's at least a chance favs work like that.

[-] TerrorBite@meow.social 1 points 1 year ago

@dipolecat Can confirm favs count as upvotes – just tried it.

@bristle @tech

[-] dipolecat@yiff.life 1 points 1 year ago

@TerrorBite @bristle @tech it seems that this only works when a masto user favs a lemmy user's comment. When a masto user favs one of my comments in a Lemmy thread, my score doesn't seem to change, and I found a comment from with score 2 (so at least one upvote) which I didn't receive a fav for in my masto interface.

[-] TerrorBite@meow.social 1 points 1 year ago

@dipolecat @bristle @tech that's probably because the favourite only federates to the favourited user's instance. There's a bit of a disconnect between how Mastodon federates events and how Lemmy federates them. The design of Lemmy kinda requires more aggressive federation than that Mastodon requires.

this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
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