• Communist@beehaw.org
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    This is a situation where you CAN technically do this, but I really wouldn’t recommend it. I have separate lemmy and mastodon accounts because accessing lemmy from mastodon is an awful experience.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, this. My mastodon timeline became quite unreadable, just a flood of lemmy links, if you follow a more active community.

  • Ananace@lemmy.ananace.dev
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    If you search for https://beehaw.org/c/programming instead - a.k.a. the URL instead of the Lemmy-syntax of !programming@beehaw.org - then you should find it as a “person” on Mastodon. Messaging to that “person” is the same as creating a new post in the community, replying to one of the “toots” that it boosts is the same as commenting - or replying to a comment.

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    @jpm

    Think of Lemmy as being just a different Mastodon client that happens to display things to their users with a different skin.

    You interact with content on a Lemmy instance the same way as you interact with content on a different Mastodon instance.

    (Technically they’re both ActivityPub clients, for the more correct terminology)

    There do seem to be some kinks to iron out between the clients, though. The ! thing might be one where they disagree on how to handle it.

    @programming

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      I think this is an oversimplification. ActivityPub is the server-to-server protocol. Mastodon and Lemmy each have different client protocols. I think the ! search syntax is part of the Lemmy client protocol specifically, and won’t work on Mastodon.

      Lemmy communities will appear on Mastodon as though they are users. So you can find the programming community on Mastodon by searching for @programming@beehaw.org. If you @mention that account your post becomes a thread on Lemmy. You can follow it, but beware that you will get all replies in your Mastodon feed, not just top-level threads.

  • hiajen@feddit.de
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    Finding lemmy communities fron mastodon works fine more me (communitiesbare shown as users tho). The other way around troubles me too, could be a problem ofnoverloaded servers.

    But as @communist@beehaw.org stated: the experience of crossfollowing diffrent plantforms (not instances) aint the best (yet).