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Can I post on Mastodon with a Lemmy account? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by HollandJim@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] oskoo@mindly.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think it would be great to see third-party applications pick up the slack in the meantime. Basically, having an app that lets you use any supported fediverse account to interact with a specific paradigm, whether it's community threads or microblogs.

For example, I'm replying to you now from Mastodon since I want to use federation to the fullest, but copying urls from Kbin every time is laborious. Having an app that uses my Mastodon account and presents like Kbin would be the dream.