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Is it possible to follow Mastodon accounts from Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by EnglishMobster@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I can see that I can follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon (just tried it out with a handful of communities), but I don't see a way to have it work the other way.

There's a few lovely people on Mastodon that post things I'd love to see pop up in my Lemmy feed - like @Curator@mastodon.art, for example. But I can't figure out how to follow them from here?

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[–] EnglishMobster@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair enough. It'd be nice to centralize all my social media in one place - Mastodon, PeerTube, Lemmy, etc. It's actually super-cool that this works the other way at all - I've followed a couple communities on Mastodon and it's neat seeing posts pop up in my feeds.

But I totally get why Lemmy works the way it does. I almost wonder if maybe it makes more sense to be able to follow Mastodon hashtags? I'm not familiar enough with the ActivityPub protocol to know how easy that is, though (and I get the feeling it's not easy...).

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You cant follow hashtags, only follow the users who post them and then filter according to the hashtag on each post. That doesnt make sense for Lemmy (it only follows group actors, which are similar to user accounts).

[–] zergling_man@lemmy.perthchat.org 6 points 1 year ago

Modelling tags as communities actually sounds like a good idea though. But you wouldn't want to namespace them by instance, hmm. I guess they could just have their own namespace as a pseudo-instance.