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[โ€“] 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

So, I have Lemmy now and just made an account on PieFed. I donยดt want to use multiple platforms. What would you suggest? Can I synch them?

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 10 months ago

    Lemmy and Piefed communicate with each other natively. You'll find people talking about Lemmy here because they are on Lemmy, and most of them won't even realize that you are not. It doesn't matter that you are not, as we communicate across the platforms just fine.

    One of our greatest challenges is that we don't have a good umbrella term to refer to all of us. But I guess that's not such a tragic problem.

    In either case, no further action needed on your part.

    Welcome!

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  • [โ€“] [S] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    You only need one platform, it's like email, you use the provider you like the most.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, this is part of what had me a bit confused. I'm on lemmy, and in addition there're different apps/readers for different instances? I just downloaded the top choice from the app store (Boost for lemmy). But they all talk to each other? And as far as I understood, you can also interact with for instance Mastodon which is an alternative to Twitter?

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 10 months ago*

    In short, every Lemmy instance holds a complete copy of the full post and comment history of every user of every other website on the lemmy/mastodon network. Every post and comment you make is first copied locally and then sent to the other sites for their own local copy.

    Itโ€™s more resource intensive to have all of these separate sites, but it ensures that if one falls, another can take its place basically instantly. Redundancy means lemmy is incredibly sturdy with effectively 99.99% uptime. Your site might go down, but just change the url and youโ€™re back. Albeit with a new account to make. Though I havenโ€™t had to swap sites at this point, and itโ€™s not a common occurrence

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