Can I follow mastodon accounts in Lemmy?
Can I follow mastodon accounts in Lemmy?
I thought we were all one big federated family but I don't have a deep knowledge of how it all works. I'd like to follow accounts like lowqualityfacts and Georgetakei but I can't seem to find them by searching.
From Lemmy you can see the accounts, but usually not their content (see note below). @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social
@georgetakei@universeodon.comInteraction between Lemmy and Mastodon doesn't work well because the two services structure their content differently. Lemmy is community based and Mastodon is user based. Lemmy doesn't have a mechanism to follow an individual user, and Mastodon doesn't have an analog to communities (afaik).
(Note: In the case of these two accounts, some of their toots are visible because they have been pulled into the !tails@lemmon.website community as part of an experiment to bridge Lemmy and Mastodon.)
You can't follow accounts on lemmy, afaik
And I am glad for that, actually.
I wish you could, but for all intents and purposes Lemmy and Mastodon aren't part of the same fediverse. Kbin/Mbin let you follow accounts, and I think !tails@lemmon.website automatically turns toots from some accounts (including Takei's) into Lemmy posts.
I've had issues going the other way too. Supposedly you can follow Lemmy communities on Mastodon but I never got it to work.
I did but it's not worth it. It's impossible to follow conversations in the comments.
If your Mastodon server has a setting called authorized_fetch on, federation with Lemmy is currently broken (they've just pushed a fix so hopefully that'll be live soon).
That said, it only affects posting to Lemmy for me, I'm still able to follow communities just fine. So maybe it's yet another setting causing havoc that we don't know about yet!
Kbin/mbin should allow it.