And it also seems that mastodon can also be “syndicated” to these other communities, and vice versa? Is that true?

Are there limitations to any of this?

Apologies if this is not the perfect place to ask this question. I’m a lost old man. :-)

  • Zamboniman@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yes, that is one of the features of being federated. Kbin and Lemmy and Mastadon (and others) can all federate with each other, so posts and comments are all shared. It doesn’t really matter if you’re on Kbin or Lemmy, you can see the same communities/magazines and comments for the most part, and interact regardless of which one you are currently logged in to.

    • GoodKingElliot@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Well, my understanding is that email is federated, and SMS text messages are federated, but it isn’t easy to email a phone number, or send a text to someone’s email. So I’m surprised that Kbin and Lemmy can talk to each other.

      But I see someone else answered that Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon all speak the same underlying protocol, ActivityPub. Now it’s starting to make sense.

      • GeekFTW@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        but it isn’t easy to email a phone number,

        Mildly off topic, and showing my age a bit on this one but it 100% is easy, as long as the telco in question supports it.

        I used to be with Koodo up here in Canada (albeit this was years ago) and the ability to send/receive emails via your phone number was trivial. Literally could email 5555555555[AT]msg.koodomobile.com and it would be received, and when you reply the other side gets the email reply.

        Whether companies still do this on the other hand, is the question (that no one asked lol).