Comment on Flipboard has begun testing ActivityPub federation of user accounts
Gamers_Mate@kbin.social 11 months agoI 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.
Microw@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I can see their profile, but no option to follow them (from within Boost)
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).
Microw@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Hm, so what does this mean for federating his “posts” to Lemmy?
thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It means as far as I’m aware, that ain’t happening. You’d have to follow from something that supports following users (Mastodon is the obvious, but does Kbin do this? 🤷♀️)
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.