Someone on Mastodon @'d my Lemmy account. how is this possible? I though Lemmy and Mastodon are seperate from each other?

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  • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    Both, and dozens of other services, work using ActivityPub. Lemmy and Mastodon servers are just different implementations of the activity pub specification, with eg. Lemmy providing explicit downvoting and thread support, while Mastodon just does not show dislikes and treats threads as replies to standalone replies.

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      3 days ago

      does this mean i could login with my Lemmy account in Mastodon? because when i tried to it failed

      • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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        No, your login only works on one instance, like E-Mail. But you can interact with mastodon. For example, when they use #firefox, we see that as a post in the community firefox. And I believe it’s the other way around too, though I’m not sure.