1 yr. ago • 100%

Accessing Lemmy From a Mastodon Account

https:// vijayprema.com /using-lemmy-from-my-existing-mastodon/

I have both a Mastadon and Lemmy account (actually two) as well as a kbin account so I'm fine with having several. It's interesting to see the interconnectivity of the two platforms. I'd love to see more of this.

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I just wish following communities worked better. currently when you follow a Lemmy community with your Mastodon account, you'll have ALL THE COMMENTS posted in that community's thread boosted to your feed without any context.

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- Yea. It'd be nice if only top level posts came through. And then, for comments to come through, you relied only on replies and following particular users.
  
  The issue though, I think, is that mastodon has no backfill mechanism. So there's no way to get a lemmy post in your feed, and then opt in to seeing all of the comments. It's the same thing that leads to "reply-guy" replies on mastodon, where people reply with the same statement because they can't see each other's replies. At some point, I think we have to just start talking about how mastodon is in some ways a bit shit.
  
  Still, I think my suggestion above would be better. Would it be possible for lemmy to adjust its federation for that?
  
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- Yes. It completely took over my home timeline doing this.
  
  We desperately need more fine grained control.
  
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  Would it make sense to have a separate aggregator app, that focuses on aggregating data from different ActivityPub apps into a single feed, so that those apps can focus on their core competencies?
  
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In the mastodon search bar, enter the URL of the post/comment you want to reply to. It will show up in mastodon as a post once searched.

Note: if you're replying to a comment or thread, you must include the community you're posting in and the username you're replying to into your reply or else Lemmy will not nest the threads correctly.

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- @Eddie@lemmy.lucitt.social @technology Here I am, replying to my own post on Mastodon! Notice how I included the user and the community in my reply.
  
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  Hi there! The links in your response are not clickable for Lemmy users, here are the clickable versions: !technology@beehaw.org
  
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  What happens if you don't?
  
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Let's go back further

Lets go chocolate rain

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