Or can not? Just wondering.
By creating an account on Lemmy. If you are asking about federation between Mastodon and Lemmy, that will probably take a very long time. We are focusing on federation between Lemmy instances now, and that is a ton of work already.
Yes, I’m asking about federation between Mastodon and Lemmy, and yes, I totally agree it should not be in the top list, and it’s absolutely not a feature request. What bothers me is how it is supposed to work in theory? Just trying to understand all those federation things. A Mastodon user has it’s own feed, but Lemmy users don’t have their own feeds for now. And if they would have feeds, it does not look like individual feeds are a primary Lemmy feature anyway. And Mastodon doesn’t have group discussions. So, practically, looks like there is actually no content to federate between Mastodon and Lemmy, am I understanding things right?
Wayyy down the line, I don’t even think I have an issue for this yet, the idea is to be able to follow not just communities, but users. So then a user’s posts (equivalent to reddit’s user page posts) will show up in your feed. So then you could follow people ala the twitter / mastodon style.
Obvi that’s a long way away, as /u/nutomic said we’re focusing on community federation rn.
While I have seen such user’s posts on Reddit, I’m still wondering what’s the use of it? It does make Reddit more a Facebook-like thing. However, those personal feeds are not shown anywhere except user profiles, am I correct? And IMO the main value of Reddit-like sites is discussion, not personal thoughts in a personal feed. The main activity on Lemmy happens in group discussions, I believe personal feeds will occupy only a very minor part of Lemmy content. So, is there even a distant theoretical need in such personal feeds federation?
I’m not totally sure if they show up in your reddit feed or not. You can even pin posts tho: https://www.reddit.com/user/gallowboob
The main activity on Lemmy happens in group discussions, I believe personal feeds will occupy only a very minor part of Lemmy content. So, is there even a distant theoretical need in such personal feeds federation?
This is true. I still do think there is a need for personal feeds following, so that lemmy users can subscribe to the rest of the fediverse, which is all currently person-based, and not group based. You might still want to see posts from peertube, or pixelfed for example show up in your feed.
Oh, I see a need now - you will be able to repost an interesting Mastodon post, or a Peertube video etc. to a community of your interest. Makes sense then.
Mastodon users will be able to comment on lemmy threads without a lemmy account, for one. And follow users is another (although not quite the full experience). I think if lemmy communities were AP actors, just like lemmy users, they could be followed by Mastodon users too. But I’m not sure if that’s possible. I’m not too familiar with AP’s details nor Lemmy’s :grinning face with sweat:
That is exactly the question. How Lemmy communities will look like on the Mastodon side? If a user
john
posts tolemmy.ml/c/blablabla
, will it appear on Mastodon as a post ofblablabla-community@lemmy.ml
or a post fromjohn@lemmy.ml
?