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Can I follow Mastodon accounts from my Lemmy account? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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We can follow lemmy accounts from Mastodon but I was wondering if we can do it the other way round?

I tried searching the username of some Masodon accounts into the search bar on Lemmy and nothing came up but when I search up the username of any Lemmy account, they do show up.

So, I'm guessing it's not yet possible?

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[–] kersploosh 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is why kbin exists. It's a Lemmy/Mastodon combo service.

[–] Unforeseen 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

TIL been here daily for some time now and didn't know that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No, but it is possible to follow a PeerTube channel.

Are you sure you can follow Lemmy users from Mastodon? Is it not only communities that you can follow from Mastodon?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

yes Mastodon allows you to follow Lemmy users, here's mine for example

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@[email protected]

and as you said, communities work too

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

No, the devs have explicitly stated they don't want to add following users to Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You can follow a community from Mastodon. But not the other way round currently iirc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That's what I recall. I wish you could...