@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’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.
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
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.
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 in lemmy when I see it starts the post by mentioning the community or author of the post haha.
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’s “request to follow” 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?
Sometimes Lemmy doesn’t send a response saying that the follow worked
If the mastodon instance never receives acknowledgement that the follow-request was approved, it’s probably not going to start fetching those messages. I’ve tried un-following and re-following; it still doesn’t work.
As I said intially, I think that qualifies the integration as only kinda-sorta working.
I’m having the same problem. There was a bug for this (which was closed) https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4341
It may have been re-opened, but I haven’t been able to find it after a quick search.
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?
Search for it. It looks like a user. You have to follow that user then make a post mentioning it. It should post to the community.
That makes sense. I’ll try next time. Thanks!
@Ascendor Geht auch mit snac. Und Honk. Unlängst ausprobiert.
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.
Although I cannot remember how to do it “correctly” I have a suspicion whats wrong with your post:
Mastodon just has a “text” for the post, some mentions and maybe media attached to it.
Lemmy also features a post title and an URL. IIRC the first paragraph of your post get converted to the title, the remainder is the post body (maybe you need to put the desired link second?!). I guess your text in the first paragraph is too long to fit in the title and the post is discarded.
Try something like this:
ICE Tucson, AZ - 2/7/26 Fascist paramilitary invaders deployed... Source: reddit.com/...
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 https://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.
You can also create a community with false subcommunties and ban whoever you want!
Really funny exploit!
Will this reply show up in Mastodon??
Ah, wow. It does!
Forgive my ignorance but what is a Mastodon? I only ever heard it to be used as a animal
It’s a federated service like Lemmy, but built to be a Twitter clone instead of reddit.
I would be so hyped to see a true dual Lemmy mastodon service that fully allows you to browse and post to both Lemmy and mastodon style feeds. Currently even kbin is really more focused on the Lemmy / piefed end and the microblogging function still requires the posts to be under a magazine meaning masto posts aren’t really browseable and they’re not really fully interact able from both ends. I feel like a service fully compatible with both formats would give a broader reach that would really allow fedi to grow. You’d be able interact with like half of fedi at the same time which would make it feel so much bigger and more comparable in scope to traditional social media.
It’s a federated Twitter alternative. It’s existed for a while - the initial release was in 2016, but obviously with all the Musk-related nonsense in the past few years, it’s grown a lot.
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
