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PSA: Jeri - Seven of Nine - Ryan is active on the fediverse! (startrek.website)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/startrek@startrek.website
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Just in case you didn't know ... she's on mastodon, has probably been here longer than you, and is active (she once actually replied to me!!!!!).

https://mastodon.world/@JeriLRyan

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[–] 15 points 3 years ago (16 children)

It seems that many Star Trek authors, writers, and producers etc. set up Mastodon accounts when then expected to be leaving Twitter.

Some of those accounts are being kept semi active but don’t have active followers. I understand that following a Mastodon account from Lemmy isn’t as feasible as the other way. I’m wondering if those members might be more active if they knew there was a community here that’s interested to engage.

All to say that it would be great if

— we could have guidance on how to follow them from here if possible (rather than creating separate Mastodon accounts;

—the mods here could message them to let them know there’s a new and active community here interested to engage.

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  • [–] [M] 14 points 3 years ago* (15 children)

    A couple of thoughts on this:

    1. I don't think it's possible to follow Mastodon accounts through Lemmy - at least not yet. To be honest, though, after playing with their interoperability, in my opinion it's best to just set up a Mastodon account and use it as a separate platform. The formats are different enough that you'll be grateful for the more Twitter-like UI experience.

    2. I'm personally not big on messaging actors or other series personnel without a very specific reason. These are personal social media accounts, and not everyone appreciates extra "noise" in their feed. Those who are interested will likely find out about us organically, and we would always reach out if the timing seemed right and we thought they would be receptive.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    For me the lack of desire to interact in that way means that it would be convenient if I could follow certain mastodon accounts through lemmy, but because I have no desire to microblog or attempt to interact with celebrities, in turn, I have no desire to set up a mastodon account just to lurk a few accounts

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    @Commod0re @ValueSubtracted

    I'm following lemmy through mastodon cause it suits me atm. You may find mastodon more interesting than you think. I've never been on twitter, and never will be, but I'm *very* enthusiastic about federation, and putting control in the hands of users, hence my account. While I'd like more varied content, atm, it's basically a Trek machine to me. I've met cool people, and seen cool things over the last few months. I'm pleased with my "purchase".

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It’s not that I wouldn’t find any of the content interesting, I just don’t feel like contributing on that kind of platform. Something about it just doesn’t appeal to me enough. It’s tough to nail down a concrete explanation of why exactly, yelling into the void just doesn’t do it for me. I prefer this more forum-like format where there’s space to be thoughtful and wordy in between the spicy space memes

    Because of that, it would be neat if I could aggregate more Trek content into my life by following some accounts, but if I have to create another account and visit another separate website in order to do that I’ll have to pass, at least for now

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    @Commod0re
    Yea, I completely get that. If twitter hadn't gone off the rails first, I might be in exactly your position. I wasn't a big reddit user. In 11 years, I generated about 3k comments(I know this cause I edited them all last night). What I really like are old school forums, but they've fallen out of favor. This place is pretty cool though, and I'm here to stay, if not prolific. My reddit account will be nuked at month's end. Just waiting to see if more stuff returns to edit.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Another option is to use kbin.social, which lets you access both, lemmy as well as mastodon from one single account and user interface

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    @mle86 @ValueSubtracted How does kbin handle posts from mastodon? I cannot seem to find a federated feed list there.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    To be honest, I'm not sure either, I'm new to this as well.

    Under search you can enter their mastodon handle, which will then pull up the mastodon profile. From there you can follow, but I can't figure out where the posts show up either. I thought it wouls be in the "people" menu, but that seems to only pull up a selection of peoples profiles.

    From.what I read in other comments, it should be possible though.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago (4 children)

    It’s showing zero posts because she has never interacted with a lemmy community, or at least done so while your instance was subscribed to it.

    This is instance visibility, a weirdness that affects all fediverse instances.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    No. Lemmy doesn’t allow you to follow mastodon accounts or any personal accounts, incl lemmy accounts, for that matter. Similarly, following a lemmy community from mastodon, while possible, generally doesn’t work well.

    Kbin provides parallel interfaces to both threaded and microblog content that works well.

    Generally though, it’s an unsolved problem trying to unify the whole fediverse into a single interface.

    It will be interesting to see if lemmy will evolve to enable some sort of user based following. At the moment, keeping things simple with community subscriptions is part of how lemmy is developed.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Thanks for the explanations, I'll take a closer look at kbin as well, see how that works as a place from which to follow various comms and blogs. I know if I have too many different feeds to check, I'll just forget.

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