Still figuring out the fediverse, but I know that Mastodon users can (in an oblique way) post to Lemmy. Is there a way to have a Lemmy account and post to a Mastodon instance/section/thingie?
I wanted to respond to something on https://front-end.social/local but I’m trying to avoid creating more social media accounts I won’t use.
Thanks!
kbin can interact with mastodon freely, so if that’s something you want to be able to do easily, you might want to switch over from lemmy.
I was thinking you can probably open the user’s profile on lemmy and reply to the post from there, but testing that didn’t seem to work. I assume that’s just federation taking a while though, so I’d say try it anyway. Searching for
@name@usersmastodoninstanceI mean. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.The issue is more likely that lemmy won’t be able to see the post from mastodon.
Lemmy will only be able to see mastodon posts that were made to a community or in reply to a lemmy post. Essentially, the mastodon content needs to have connected with a community. Otherwise, as lemmy doesn’t have the idea of simply following users and everything they post, it isn’t pulling in any post from any person.
If you want to reply to mastodon content from a community based platform, you need to use either kbin or friendica (though I’m not sure federation between friendica and lemmy/kbin is working well right now).
Thing is, as I understand, on kbin, you don’t really get a feed of the people you follow like on mastodon. So it’s somewhere between lemmy and mastodon.
So you have option, but none of them are great right now and it depends on works for you. The fediverse still has growing to do yo really make the most of this interconnectivity.
For me, having a mastodon and Lemmy account seems to work the best, as their still pretty different spaces.
There’s no dedicated follow feed, yeah, but I noticed posts and threads of followed accounts showing up in my subscribed feed, even though they were made in a community I’m not subscribed to. So I think the follow and subscribed feeds are probably just merged together currently, or rather “following” a user is being treated as just a flavor synonym for subscribing to a user.
Aahh. That’s interesting. I don’t think anyone has mentioned that to me before. Some might not even know!
I think it would be great to see third-party applications pick up the slack in the meantime. Basically, having an app that lets you use any supported fediverse account to interact with a specific paradigm, whether it’s community threads or microblogs.
For example, I’m replying to you now from Mastodon since I want to use federation to the fullest, but copying urls from Kbin every time is laborious. Having an app that uses my Mastodon account and presents like Kbin would be the dream.
Couldn’t agree more. There may be useful browser extensions by now? I haven’t delved into that space.
But yep, I’ve said the same thing elsewhere.
If I’m grumpy, I say “the fediverse doesn’t exist (yet)”, because up until now it’s been dominated by mastodon and one simple paradigm. When the user can easily exist on multiple platforms, then it’s a fediverse.
Yeah, it’s been a bit of a rough ride since I started on GNU Social. When Mastodon first ‘came to power’ it felt like they were stepping on everyone’s toes. Eventually, I came around to a lot of what that community stood for and what they were building.
But it’s true, it feels like we still need a task force dedicated to smoothing out the rough edges of federation so that the ideal becomes reality for everyone. I’m confident we’ll get there and it’ll be magical when we do.
Ooooh … a fediverse old timer! Tell us the old tales! (I’m not teasing you here, I’m being celebratory and serious, even if weird!)
“Task force” is a good way to put it.
Without wanting to be pessimistic, what worries me is that a brain worm has kinda settled in of “being a platform hero”, where people feel that the right way to work on the fediverse is to make a their own new platform, sell it, start instances, get user numbers up, ship new features, ship mobile apps etc … almost like developers are stuck in older and corporate ways of thinking.
I don’t think there’s nearly enough reusable modular software work going on, nor even enough thought about what that would look like. But there are plenty of people making their own platforms and apps, basically reinventing the wheel again and again, and, I fear, making the same mistakes that will strike at some point, again and again.