This is the place to ask beginner and simple questions. Some examples include:

• Soap, scent, or gear recommendations • Favorite scents, bases, etc • Where to buy certain items • Identification of a razor you just bought • Troubleshooting shaving issues such as cuts, poor lather, and technique

Please note these are examples and any questions for the sub should be posted here.

  • souleater7173@sub.wetshaving.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m seeing posts from Lemmy show up on Mastodon. Does this mean there’s a way to link these accounts so that, for example, my post in the SotD thread shows up as a post on Mastodon?

    • merikus@sub.wetshaving.socialM
      4·
      1 year ago

      Exactly. Lemmy and Mastodon all operate under the activitypub protocol, so they can see each other’s content, but display it in different ways.

      On Mastodon, check out @wetshaving@sub.WetShaving.social. You’ll see it’s a Mastodon feed of all the posts to that Lemmy community. You can also check out a specific user, so @souleater7173@sub.WetShaving.social will be all your Lemmy posts.

      The thing is that they don’t play nice together. So yesterday I tried tagging one of the Lemmy communities’ Mastodon account in a Mastodon post, and it created a post on Lemmy that was the text of my Mastodon post.

      So not perfect, but it is another way to watch what’s going on.

    • nguarracino
      1·
      1 year ago

      I still don’t fully understand this, either. Under the hood, they’re both using ActivityPub, but they don’t seem entirely compatible. I can tack on a Lemmy community name to a Mastodon URL - i.e., https://elk.zone/@wetshaving@sub.wetshaving.social. I see the Mastodon version of the community’s profile page, but I don’t see any actual posts.

      Edit: I’m starting to see Lemmy posts on my Mastodon timeline now. Maybe just a delay due to federation? It’s really interesting to see how the posts are represented in Mastodon. They look like posts by the Lemmy user, boosted by the community they were posted in. Cool!