sh.itjust.works Main Community @sh.itjust.works rlspam @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

Can I use my Lemmy account with Mastodon?

I signed up for an account on this Lemmy server as part of the recent migration from Reddit.

Based on my research about the Fediverse, I should be able to use my Lemmy account with Mastodon servers. However, I can’t seem to use my account with the Ice Cubes app. Is anyone else trying to do this or am I misunderstanding something? Maybe I should try another Mastodon client?

Otherwise, thank you in advance for the community’s help!

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Actually mastodon users can browse lemmy, but they don't see upvotes.
Accounts are specific to server instances, got it. There’s obviously no Mastodon content on Lemmy yet, so I understand the limitation. Thanks all!!
It seems to me that you can interact with posts from Mastodon with a Lemmy account, but can only log in to your home server with it. So your view if the world will be Lemmy-like. Probably you could make an account on a Mastodon server and use a Mastodon app with it to interact with Lemmy posts in a Mastodon-flavored way. There's also kbin, that does both reddit-style posts with an OP, a title, and comments; and also Twitter-style status message posts with comments but no title ("microblogs").

I don't know how to see the microblogs posted to a community from Lemmy, but presumably they could exist if a Mastodon-wielder put then there.
- The Lemmy world is fundamentally incompatible with the mastodon world.
  
  Mastodon doesn't have communities at all. It just isn't a feature yet. So you can't really subscribe to anything from mastodon because you're looking a cliff face with no hand holds. There's nothing we can subscribe to. When I look at my fbxl social user with fbxl Lemmy, I have 3 options: send message, block user, or ban. No way to follow a user because Lemmy isn't for that.
  
  Mastodon can communicate with Lemmy because of the way it's implemented, however: you can follow a community like a user, and it'll repost anything it's tagged in so you can participate in Lemmy with Mastodon.
  
  Ah. So it's a one-way pipe from Lemmy to Mastodon. It's not possible to have a Lemmy community set up to mirror a Mastodon hashtag? (perhaps that's how kbin does things)
I think people on Mastadon can see and reply to our posts and comments, but I don't think we can 'browse' content on mastadon quite the same way.
This is where /kbin comes in. It's has threads and microblogging so it's compatible with both lemmy and mastadon.

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