I can see that I can follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon (just tried it out with a handful of communities), but I don’t see a way to have it work the other way.

There’s a few lovely people on Mastodon that post things I’d love to see pop up in my Lemmy feed - like @Curator@mastodon.art, for example. But I can’t figure out how to follow them from here?

  • nutomicAEnglish
    91·
    2 years ago

    Lemmy can only follow communities, not users. Otherwise it would require a whole new UI and other major changes. Doesnt make much sense when you can create a second account on Mastodon or one of many other platforms which already implement user following much better.

    • English MobsterOPEnglish
      51·
      2 years ago

      Fair enough. It’d be nice to centralize all my social media in one place - Mastodon, PeerTube, Lemmy, etc. It’s actually super-cool that this works the other way at all - I’ve followed a couple communities on Mastodon and it’s neat seeing posts pop up in my feeds.

      But I totally get why Lemmy works the way it does. I almost wonder if maybe it makes more sense to be able to follow Mastodon hashtags? I’m not familiar enough with the ActivityPub protocol to know how easy that is, though (and I get the feeling it’s not easy…).

      • nutomicAEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        You cant follow hashtags, only follow the users who post them and then filter according to the hashtag on each post. That doesnt make sense for Lemmy (it only follows group actors, which are similar to user accounts).

        • zergling_man@lemmy.perthchat.orgEnglish
          6·
          2 years ago

          Modelling tags as communities actually sounds like a good idea though. But you wouldn’t want to namespace them by instance, hmm. I guess they could just have their own namespace as a pseudo-instance.

    • 🦊 OneFluffyBoi 🦊@octodon.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      @nutomic Is there willingness to consider adding support for following users (and perhaps hashtags too)? It would be a good interop feature. IMO one of the biggest selling points of the Fediverse is that I can follow users from PixelFed, Calckey, Lemmy, etc and have their content show up seamlessly in my feed; I can even interact with it. Not having this feature just seems like it cuts off Lemmy users from the majority of the Fediverse, unless they want to manage multiple accounts on multiple platforms.

      • Cougar
        3·
        2 years ago

        Check out kbin.pub, it’s like lemmy but supports microblogs (mastodon-like). It’s not yet fully federated with Lemmy but will try to. I’m not a user though, just found about it today.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    No, following users is not supported by Lemmy. You could try kbin though which supports that.