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by raffomania 1644 days ago
I've been following lemmy [0] for a while, a federated reddit alternative in the same spirit as mastodon. It's still very small, but I think as monetization pressure on reddit increases, people will look for other places to post and this might be one of them :)

edit: add the link [0] https://join-lemmy.org/
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ephbit 1644 days ago
Their website mentions the Fediverse. lemmy is a federated network that is completely separate from the mastodon/diaspora/... network, right?

Since I already have an account on a mastodon instance I first thought I can just connect to lemmy instances using that but that is apparently not possible.

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rapnie 1644 days ago
Yes, you can. After their last release you can follow Lemmy communities with Mastodon and add comments to posts. Just enter the URL of a Lemmy community in your search bar to find the account profile. And in case that doesn't work you might try search for @[CommunityName]@[lemmy.instance] (there are some issues to be wrinkled out still).
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