This is out of scope for Lemmy, there are already dozens of Fediverse projects which provide this functionality so it makes no sense to reimplement it in Lemmy as well.
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randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Also I would like to be able to follow a Mastodon user from Lemmy
nutomic@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Out of scope, yes. But it sure would be nice from a more abstract perspective. Right now content flows in one direction. Lemmy->Mastadon, but not vice versa.
This could be a good thing, or a bad thing, depending on whether you are a content creator or content consumer. If you’re creating content, a post to Lemmy will have a wider reach (huzzah!). But if you’re a lazy lurker and want to check fewer streams, then you sign up to Mastadon and get both (huzzah!).
Anecdote from history, for comparison.
Back in the late 80s, early 90s, when OS/2 and Windows were competing for marketshare, this was a choice that IBM made – to make a Windows compatibility layer on OS/2. Technically, it was a masterpiece, and increased the number of programs available to OS/2 users. Why choose Windows when you can choose OS/2 and you can select from the best apps from both ecosystems! Except it backfired within a few years – developers stopped developing for OS/2 entirely, instead targeting the Windows API because they could reach both platforms with it.
I suspect that Mastadon being able to draw content from Lemmy, and not vice versa, is a similar thing here. But I’m unsure if it will help or harm Lemmy.
Jezebelley3D@kbin.social 11 months ago
Join us on kbin. This is precisely the feature kbin provides.
nix@merv.news 11 months ago
But no apps on kbin :(
itsaj26744@programming.dev 11 months ago
But U dont have rss feeds I guess
maegul@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
The lead devs have acknowledged that it would be good (they did an AMA not long ago). But they feel it’d be a lot of work and so not a priority right now.
Personally, I think lemmy would have a lot to provide in reimagining a user’s personal blogging feed as something more like a personal community they manage for themselves.
Candelestine@lemmy.world 11 months ago
…I really like the sound of that idea.
maegul@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Me too! A lemmy user could even have multiple personal blogs if they wanted, each separately follow-able, with cross posting when wanted. Then you could follow either their posts to general communities, and/or any of their personal blogs.
Once multi communities come, lemmy then becomes an interesting blogging platform that should also interop with mastodon well.