▲ 112 ▼ What's the fundamental difference between Fediverse/ActivityPub/Lemmy and the Usenet? (feddit.de) submitted 3 years ago by squaresinger@feddit.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml 32 comments fedilink hide all child comments After reading a bit about Usenet, it seems to me as if the whole Fediverse seems to be just a reinvention of Usenet. What's the big difference?
[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 9 points 3 years ago (2 children) Fediverse is one standard - ActivityPub. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] pixel@beehaw.org 7 points 3 years ago Yeah but there's different ways to interact with the fediverse via activitypub, whereas Usenet was just. Usenet permalink fedilink source parent [–] kitonthenet@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) It’s actually several standards, the primary one is activitypub but mastodon also uses webfinger, and for example peertube uses p2p transfers to serve video permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] squaresinger@feddit.de [S] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) But they aren't compatible, are they? Which would make it multiple, disconnected fediverses. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kitonthenet@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child) No, i can follow and post to mastodon accounts from here, and I’ve posted my cat to !cat from my mastodon, sometimes you lose certain fields (mastodon doesn’t really know what to do with upvotes, so it doesn’t display them when I’m logged into mastodon) but the post works fine on lemmy. I also follow peertube accounts from my mastodon too permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world [B] 1 point 3 years ago Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !cat@lemmy.world permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pixel@beehaw.org 7 points 3 years ago Yeah but there's different ways to interact with the fediverse via activitypub, whereas Usenet was just. Usenet permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kitonthenet@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) It’s actually several standards, the primary one is activitypub but mastodon also uses webfinger, and for example peertube uses p2p transfers to serve video permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] squaresinger@feddit.de [S] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) But they aren't compatible, are they? Which would make it multiple, disconnected fediverses. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kitonthenet@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child) No, i can follow and post to mastodon accounts from here, and I’ve posted my cat to !cat from my mastodon, sometimes you lose certain fields (mastodon doesn’t really know what to do with upvotes, so it doesn’t display them when I’m logged into mastodon) but the post works fine on lemmy. I also follow peertube accounts from my mastodon too permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world [B] 1 point 3 years ago Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !cat@lemmy.world permalink fedilink source parent
[–] squaresinger@feddit.de [S] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) But they aren't compatible, are they? Which would make it multiple, disconnected fediverses. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kitonthenet@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child) No, i can follow and post to mastodon accounts from here, and I’ve posted my cat to !cat from my mastodon, sometimes you lose certain fields (mastodon doesn’t really know what to do with upvotes, so it doesn’t display them when I’m logged into mastodon) but the post works fine on lemmy. I also follow peertube accounts from my mastodon too permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world [B] 1 point 3 years ago Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !cat@lemmy.world permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kitonthenet@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child) No, i can follow and post to mastodon accounts from here, and I’ve posted my cat to !cat from my mastodon, sometimes you lose certain fields (mastodon doesn’t really know what to do with upvotes, so it doesn’t display them when I’m logged into mastodon) but the post works fine on lemmy. I also follow peertube accounts from my mastodon too permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world [B] 1 point 3 years ago Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !cat@lemmy.world permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world [B] 1 point 3 years ago Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !cat@lemmy.world permalink fedilink source parent