I’ve always wondered how many people actually decide to use something like mastodon to see Lemmy posts. I mean I know how inadequate it can be with a lack of a proper UI but I’m just wondering. Especially, with the infinite possibilities this can have.
If I’m right Lemmy devs haven’t implemented observing others platforms yet. I mean Mastodon, Pixelfed and the others.
Mastodon users can see Lemmy posts, but I’m not sure if it works the other way around unless the Mastodon post is specifically to a Lemmy community. Kbin magazines do show up on Lemmy though
Hello from Mastodon.
Hello from Kbin! Come join us on https://kbin.social/m/truegaming wooo!
If the person who posts on mastodon mentions a community on lemmy, their toot appears as a post in that community on lemmy. It happened on !thunder_app@lemmy.world
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !cat@lemmy.world
I look at them separately because I haven’t figured out how to do it from one to the other.
You can follow communities from Mastodon with format @lemmings@lemmings.world (ie replace the exclamation mark with an @). It’s a miserable experience though. It’s better to follow communities using Lemmy or Kbin (I’m not sure if Calckey works better).
It’s a miserable experience though
Yeah. I followed the Technology community and it’s a mess on Mastodon. Replies all show up on the Home feed and there’s no context. I have to click on the comment then scroll all the way up to see the original post.
I wonder why they don’t differentiate between a comment and a thread? They have that capability in Mastodon.
On Lemmy, I sure use it a ton between different Lemmy instances and KBin! On Mastodon I only use it to communicate across Mastodon instances really, but neither service would be the same without the ability to see posts from other instances.
I tend to use Lemmy most often just because it’s easier to interact with Lemmy and kbin that way, but I have Mastodon, Lemmy, kbin, and pixelfed posts in my feed on my Calckey instance, so I can at least browse communities I’m subscribed to through there.
What would be nice is some way to sync subscriptions and blocks across platforms and between instances. I’d probably be using my own instance more often if that were a bit easier.
Using lemmy directly will give you more control over the post and lemmy specific features…
@imattau
But you can always follow communities and people (including yourself) to post and reply from another fediverse account… 😁
@Venomnik0
