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Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs or Hacker News: You subscribe to communities that you're interested in, post links and discussions and vote and comment on them. <br>
Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs or Hacker News: You subscribe to communities that you're interested in, post links and discussions and vote and comment on them. <br>
Communities are similar to forum categories, so Lemmy can be used as a forum. <br>
Communities are similar to forum categories, so Lemmy can be used as a forum. <br>
Since it's part of the {{Internal Link |target=What is the Fediverse? |link-name=Fediverse}} different Lemmy instances can communicate mainly with other Lemmy's intance.
Since it's part of the {{Internal Link |target=What is the Fediverse? |link-name=Fediverse}} different Lemmy instances can communicate with each other and to some degree, with the rest of the Fediverse, but discoverability between Lemmy and other parts of the Fediverse is limited.


Lemmy doesn't support hashtags as Mastodon yet. Discoverability between fediverse app is limited. There is also some limitations, not tied to Lemmy, for example the markdown and picture aren't well supported by each other fediverse app.
{{Internal Link |target=What is Mastodon? |link-name=Mastodon}} users can take part in Lemmy discussions and subscribe to Lemmy communities. Lemmy doesn't support hashtags as Mastodon yet.  
Also Lemmy uses Markdown and pictures in a way, that other parts of the Fediverse have trouble displaying.


{{Internal Link |target=What is Mastodon? |link-name=Mastodon}} users can also take part in Lemmy discussions and subscribe to lemmy communities.
== Lemmy and the Fediverse ==


== Lemmy and the fediverse ==
=== Mastodon ===


=== Mastodon ===
Mastodon users can post in a Lemmy community. Go to Mastodon, create a post and follow that form:
Mastodon users can post in a Lemmy community. Go to mastodon, create a post and follow that form :
<nowiki>The first paragraph will be the title in Lemmy
<nowiki>The first paragraph will be the title in Lemmy


The second paragraph will be the body of your post. You can add some hashtag but it will only work on mastodon as Lemmy doesn't support them.
The second paragraph will be the body of your post. You can add some hashtags but they will only be displayed on Mastodon as Lemmy doesn't support them.


Once done, mention the Lemmy community where you want to post. @LemmyCommunity@LemmyInstance.tdl
Once done, mention the Lemmy community you want to post in. @LemmyCommunity@LemmyInstance.tdl
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{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!Hashtag
!Hashtags
!Picture
!Pictures
!Picture alt text
!Picture alt text
!Video
!Videos
!NSFW
!NSFW
!Poll
!Polls
!Markdown
!Markdown
!Mention
!Mentions
!Comments
!Comments
!Cross-post mastodon to lemmy
!Cross-posting from Mastodon to Lemmy
!Boost
!Boosts
!Like
!Likes
|-
|-
|❌
|❌