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== What does Lemmy feel like? ==
== What does Lemmy feel like? ==


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 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 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.
Since its 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. 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 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.


== 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 :
{{Internal Link |target=What is Mastodon? |link-name=Mastodon}} users can take part in Lemmy discussions and subscribe to Lemmy communities. To post in a Lemmy community simply mention the Lemmy community (@LemmyCommunity@LemmyInstance.tdl) in a Mastodon post.<br>
<nowiki>The first paragraph will be the title in Lemmy
The first paragraph of the Mastodon post will display in Lemmy as the title, the rest will be the text body. Hashtags won't be displayed 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.
 
Once done, mention the Lemmy community where you want to post. @LemmyCommunity@LemmyInstance.tdl
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Here is the list of functions supported between Mastodon and Lemmy :
Here is the list of functions supported between Mastodon and Lemmy :


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!Hashtag
!Hashtags
!Picture
!Pictures
!Picture alt text
!Alt text
!Video
!Videos
!NSFW
!NSFW
!Poll
!Polls
!Markdown
!Markdown
!Mention
!Mentions
!Comments
!Comments
!Post (re)editing
!Post (re)editing
!Cross-post mastodon to lemmy
!Cross-posts from Mastodon to Lemmy
!private message
!private messages
!Boost
!Boosts
!Like
!Likes
|-
|-
|❌
|❌
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