Submitted 2 days ago by bdonvr@mastodon.sdf.org to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
@youshouldknow YSK that you can post to Lemmy from Mastodon, and Mastodon users can interact in Lemmy threads. This is a Mastodon account.
Seems like there's a new wave of Lemmy users, thought they may find that interesting! It can also work with other Fediverse software as well. It's all interconnectable. It's not perfect and there's some quirks due to Lemmy being a forum and Mastodon being a microblog. But you can ping Mastodon users in threads, and they can reply seamlessly.
I just wish the tags used on Mastodon didn’t end up in the body text when they end up on Lemmy. It can add a helluva lot of clutter when they add a thousand of those fuckers.
I would also like it if their posts didn’t start with tagging everyone in the thread.
It always looks funny tho. :D
I’ve tried explaining the fed to my friends and family like “it’s like insta and FB and xitter and reddit all got to talk to one another and there’s different organizations like email has”. I’m not sure they get it much better.
I just explain but starting how you can email gmail from Outlook and such ( familiar concept). Then tell them you could email a Facebook account using username@facebook.com (this shows they were open to it at some point), that it was a default state of things because they wanted you connected. But then they realized they can make you sign up to their own website and make more money, so now we need account for everything. But imagine you didn’t, you could access different contents in the UI/format you want. You don’t need to share screenshots of different social media (shows why it’s useful), you could just follow different people from different websites.
So far this explanation has worked. I haven’t converted anyone, but they understand. Sometimes they try to install and see, then say “the things I want are not here” because we don’t have all the niche
I’ve converted no one. But I get the most tempted looks when I say: there are no ads, and when you search for anime, noone is adding that to their secret database of your likes
Especially when you try to expliain that you can send stuff from mastodon to lemmy, but not lemmy to mastodon, unless it’s just tagging a user, and then it’s only on certain platforms.
We all play together, but we don’t all play the same way and it’s not always nice.
YSK that the first line will be the title of your post. It looks better on Lemmy/PieFed if you mention the community in the second line or further down.
Yes, the title looks fine here.
Better yet, leave the mentions and hash tags at the bottom of the text. Declutter my reading, please.
Ok, so Mastodon can post to lemmy, does this also work the other way around? And could I follow persons on mastodon somehow woth my Lemmy account? Does this show up as a small community?
I think the way Lemmy / PieFed are set up you can’t inherently “follow” someone like a feed. PieFed being an article posting site (?) Like Lemmy they support each other right away. So posts on that platform while written in another programming language, still mesh and show.
not with lemmy, but with mbin
No. Lemmy doesn’t support following people. Best you can do is mention them and they’ll get your ping. Or DM them.
You can followe them from a mastodon account tho.
Example response from PieFed
You should give an explanation on how to do it
But can you post from lemmy to Mastodon?
I’m not asking if it would make sense, I just feel left out cause of the one sided posting ability
You can follow lemmy users and communities with a mastodon account.
Guess I’m on Mastodon now…
Look, you’re famous!
Yeah, that’s the wonder of the Fediverse. One network that can be interacted with by many tools and platforms.
Hopefully, we can see cross-service APIs and federation become common. Having Matrix, Lemmy, Mastodon, and other platforms being able to talk with each other would be terrific. Especially if we can import/export our profiles at will, to migrate across services if we want to experiment or escape an enshitffied place.
The beauty of interoperability. Thank you ActivityPub.
I know mastodon posts/replies from lemmy when I see it starts the post by mentioning the community or author of the post haha.
You can also create a community with false subcommunties and ban whoever you want!
Really funny exploit!
Kinda sorta.
The specific mastadon instance I’m on (mefi.social) does show the existence of lemmy communities and users, but it doesn’t import their posts or replies. mastodon.social seems and some other larger implementations seem to work fine though. I’m not sure if this is a configuration issue or what.
Information only gets sent to an instance if someone is following whatever created it.
If you follow a community as if it’s a user the posts will federate to your instance.
I did try that (following the community), but the mastodon account has been stuck in “awaiting approval” status. I run the Lemmy community that I’m trying to follow with my Mastodon account, but I don’t see how or where to approve these follow requests.
Are those requests gated by the mastodon admin perhaps?
Can you post new threads from Mastodon, or only comment to existing threads?
Both! If you notice this thread was made by a Mastodon account.
Thanks - how would I do that? How to choose the community from Mastodon?
on piefed you can add tags to a post and they’ll show up in mastodon
This didn’t work for me. Did I do something wrong?
IIRC you must be following the community with your Mastodon Account to be able to post there. At least that was the problem, when I tried it the last time.
I tried again, this time after making sure to follow the community, but it still failed.
Try following the communities first.
Not sure if it works for more than one community at a time, but maybe it does?
Not great with this fediverse stuff, i made a world account when i came from reddit and now most of my communities are dead. Where should I move to?
Your communities? Like ones you run?
It won’t make a difference where you move to, you’ll be accessing the same communities.
!linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works is still the same community with all the same posts whether you’re on Lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, or piefed.social. Are you sure you’re looking at the most active community? Sometimes people make a community with the same name as one that exists, but usually people flock to the established one.
Check out lemmyverse.net/communities for a good site to find communities. You can click the house icon in the top and set it to lemmy.world so that clicking the links takes you there on Lemmy.world.
paequ2@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Will this reply show up in Mastodon??
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
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paequ2@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Ah, wow. It does!
Patnou@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Forgive my ignorance but what is a Mastodon? I only ever heard it to be used as a animal