@creatinglake Yep, you can. I used to follow !linux from my Mastodon account. Now I'm commenting from my Friendica account!
I will say though, following Lemmy via Mastodon isn't ideal. No downvotes, link posts mess up the "copy link to post" feature, all the replies are forced into your timeline as boosts, and you can't actually post to the forums (only reply) because there are no post titles.
@jonasvautherin @creatinglake Mastodon doesn't do everything that a platform connected to the Fediverse can do; Lemmy has a lot of features Mastodon doesn't, and Mastodon has a lot of features Lemmy doesn't. For example, as far as I know Mastodon users can't create original posts to Lemmy communities, nor downvote posts on the site.
The beauty of the Fediverse is that you can create different platforms for different purposes - Twitter-like microblogs, Reddit-like link forums, photo sharing, video sharing... if you have an account on one of them, that perhaps represents your preferred set of features, you can still keep up with activity on the others using their analogous features. And as Joe Bidet said while I was typing this: it's about cooperation not competition.
@pingveno @jackalope The utility of any social network is determined by its active users, and Friendica users can communicate with Mastodon and Diaspora folks. It's just that those users make up 99% of its social utility and the majority end up forced to make unusual concessions for compatibility (like not titling your posts, so Mastodonites don't have to click on a link to read them).
@serenity Minor point, but of course the VTuber dev would make an ultra-optimistic, cutesy writeup full of wave dashes and sparkle emojis.
It's starting to look like running the Debian Linux family on an Apple Silicon Mac will become a top-tier option in the future. Asahi's really exceeding expectations.
@cult @poVoq Most instances federate with everyone by default. Mastodon (as well as Friendica, Pleroma, and probably most other platforms) have options to either treat all users on another instance as suspended, and/or block all communications with an instance, and IIRC this is what people call defederation. It's functionally equivalent to "not following Tumblr."
@junbird @nom_nom @hamiller_friendica That's actually the main thing I use this Friendica account for - Guppe and Lemmy groups. I might have to create a proper Lemmy account eventually though.
They are different platforms that can communicate with each other, and whose users can interact with, follow, and reply to each other. Mastodon is a microblogging service like Twitter, where everything is a short text post, and Lemmy is more of a link sharing/aggregation service where you can post links or text and others can comment on them. As far as I know, Mastodon users can comment on Lemmy posts, but their ability to post directly to Lemmy communities may be limited due to the platforms having a different feature set.
@yogthos Hopefully this brings GNOME closer to implementing it too. I'm tired of having no middle ground between doubling the size of everything (and causing screen crunch) and keeping it the same (and needing to squint or lean in to see some things).
@_ed You should! It has an excess of features - the thread display and post titles are the ones that make it a lot easier to interact with Lemmy, though I'm still not sure I can make link posts; but also recommended users, federation with Diaspora, following RSS feeds, dislikes, quote re-shares, post formatting, and a bunch more.
It's dated in some ways, like the signup process and some clunky aspects of the UI. But it might be better than Mastodon once you get the hang of it.