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Why is Lemmy called Lemmy? (lemm.ee)

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Reddit is called as such because “I read it on Reddit”

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[–] cyborganism 1 points 1 year ago

I was asking myself this just a few minutes before I saw your comment.

Thank you for this great explanation.

If I understood correctly, we don't need to have an account on each of these applications (kbin, Lemmy, mastodon) to be able to interact with their content.

However, they each have their own set of features and their own way to interact with the content. So Lemmy acts a bit like Reddit with up/down votes and discussion threads with comment depth, while Mastodon acts more like Twitter. I wonder how these content properties are set and managed by the different apps.