Still figuring out the fediverse, but I know that Mastodon users can (in an oblique way) post to Lemmy. Is there a way to have a Lemmy account and post to a Mastodon instance/section/thingie?
I wanted to respond to something on https://front-end.social/local but I’m trying to avoid creating more social media accounts I won’t use.
Thanks!
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kbin can interact with mastodon freely, so if that’s something you want to be able to do easily, you might want to switch over from lemmy.
I was thinking you can probably open the user’s profile on lemmy and reply to the post from there, but testing that didn’t seem to work. I assume that’s just federation taking a while though, so I’d say try it anyway. Searching for
@name@usersmastodoninstanceI mean. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.The issue is more likely that lemmy won’t be able to see the post from mastodon.
Lemmy will only be able to see mastodon posts that were made to a community or in reply to a lemmy post. Essentially, the mastodon content needs to have connected with a community. Otherwise, as lemmy doesn’t have the idea of simply following users and everything they post, it isn’t pulling in any post from any person.
If you want to reply to mastodon content from a community based platform, you need to use either kbin or friendica (though I’m not sure federation between friendica and lemmy/kbin is working well right now).
Thing is, as I understand, on kbin, you don’t really get a feed of the people you follow like on mastodon. So it’s somewhere between lemmy and mastodon.
So you have option, but none of them are great right now and it depends on works for you. The fediverse still has growing to do yo really make the most of this interconnectivity.
For me, having a mastodon and Lemmy account seems to work the best, as their still pretty different spaces.
