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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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[–] 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.