You are commenting on a LemmyNet post from the shit just works instance. I am replying from a LemmyNet account on lemmy.world. It could also happen that someone from a Mastodon instance could reply to this comment. Everyone can have their account on a specific instance (even self-hosting their own instance) and still be able to see content from other websites. There is no singular website that hosts all data and there is no singular authority (ok maybe you could argue the developers of the software, but it’s also open source and other options do exist so it’s not a true single point of authority) for the entire network.
You can reply to Lemmy posts or comments on Mastodon and they appear as comments on here. If someone replies to that comment, you’ll see the reply on Mastodon.
Both systems use ActivityPub which is how they can talk to each other.
Content and data is shared between instances.
But what does that mean? How would I see content from one on the other?
You are commenting on a LemmyNet post from the shit just works instance. I am replying from a LemmyNet account on lemmy.world. It could also happen that someone from a Mastodon instance could reply to this comment. Everyone can have their account on a specific instance (even self-hosting their own instance) and still be able to see content from other websites. There is no singular website that hosts all data and there is no singular authority (ok maybe you could argue the developers of the software, but it’s also open source and other options do exist so it’s not a true single point of authority) for the entire network.
Have you never talked to someone on #Mastodon yet? They all use ActivityPub as a protocol.
I’m on Mastodon also. But how do they connect?
You can reply to Lemmy posts or comments on Mastodon and they appear as comments on here. If someone replies to that comment, you’ll see the reply on Mastodon.
Both systems use ActivityPub which is how they can talk to each other.
I told you already.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub
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