As a new user to all these sites, I’m confused about they interact with each other. For example, on Lemmy, I can view a Mastodon account, but I can’t view that account’s posts. This makes sense, as sorting your home feed by “all” could hypothetically result in your feed getting flooded by popular Mastodon posts....
So they could now post to that Community and see every direct reply to that post and reply to those replies but they can’t currently just stumble across Lemmy Communities in their federated timeline because Lemmy can’t do that yet.
ELI5: How does Lemmy know to not show Mastodon posts?
As a new user to all these sites, I’m confused about they interact with each other. For example, on Lemmy, I can view a Mastodon account, but I can’t view that account’s posts. This makes sense, as sorting your home feed by “all” could hypothetically result in your feed getting flooded by popular Mastodon posts....