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Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Gamers_Mate@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I found this works on lemmy world for finding their profile.
  It seems kbin has an @ for the name as well as the site while lemmy just has an @for the site they are from.

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  • Microw@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can see their profile, but no option to follow them (from within Boost)

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    • thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s because they’re a user, not a community. Lemmy doesn’t let us follow users (at least not yet).

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      • Microw@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hm, so what does this mean for federating his “posts” to Lemmy?

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      • Falst@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t know how I’d feel about following users from Lemmy TBH. It’d feel like trying to compete with Mastodon or other microblogging platforms and I’m not sure we need it in this space.

        I’d find it interesting to have a unique identity for services in the fediverse instead.

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