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Can I use my Lemmy account with Mastodon? (self.main)

submitted 1 year ago by rlspam to c/main

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, my instance is soapbox with its own back-end, so I don't know about how hashtags on mastodon would be interpreted. Might work!

[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 1 year ago

Here is the issue as I understand it: Both Lemmy and Mastodon use the same ActivityPub protocol to transmit messages. But, it's kinda like a form with different fields, and because the two sites are formatted differently (effectively the difference between Reddit and Twitter, one has hashtags the other has communities) they leave some of the fields blank that the other expects to have filled in.

Having lived in the world of "these are separate platforms run by separate for-profit companies so they don't work together on purpose because they're each trying to keep your eyes on THEIR platform (and THEIR ads)" for so long, it's hard to imagine being able to tweet a facebook post or post a Youtube video to Reddit without basically copy-pasting a link or uploading a screenshot. Perhaps as the Fediverse matures it'll start to make sense.