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I’m not sure that actually works. You can search for a Mastodon user, but when you try to subscribe the sidebar buttons are missing on Lemmy. Image

My understanding is that you can subscribe to a Lemmy community in Mastodon, but not the other way around. Maybe there’s a trick I’m missing?

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Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Lemmy has no support for following individuals as far as I know. As others have mentioned, Mastodon users can post to Lemmy by @-ing a community, and Lemmy users can interact with that post normally, and with any replies in it (or other replies made by Mastodon users).

It’s possible Lemmy users could directly @ Mastodon users, though I don’t have Mastodon, so I’m not sure.

If you want to be able to follow both communities and individuals, then that is basically the selling point of Kbin, though Kbin isn’t for me so I don’t know exactly how it works and where in your feeds posts by individuals you follow shows up.

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- aebrer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Only saying this for general informational purposes, but if you want to be able to follow Lemmy and Mastodon content and post either, kbin supports that out of the box (masto style content is called "microblogs")
  
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- Rootiest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  It’s possible Lemmy users could directly @ Mastodon users
  
  Let’s see…
  
  @rootiest@fosstodon.org
  
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  - rootiest@fosstodon.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    @Rootiest@lemmy.world @Coelacanth
    looks like it works
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    Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Neat!
    
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wegettosss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I cant find sidebar either

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Klaymore@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Ah yeah it shows up as a user not a community. I think if you search the URL of one of their posts you can see the community it’s posted in and subscribe to that.

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