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@asklemmy So, is this how I post to a Lemmy group if I'm only on Mastodon and haven't even made a Lemmy profile?...

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

But wait, can we see Mastodon from Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You are in this thread!

You can’t see all of mastodon from lemmy though. Only when a mastodon user interacts with lemmy.

This can be done in two ways.

  1. Replying to a lemmy post or comment (they can upvote too)
  2. Creating a new post to a lemmy community, which is what this post is.

But because mastodon (and microblogging generally as there are other fediverse microblogging performs) is based on following people, and you can’t follow people on lemmy, all of the interpersonal mastodon stuff, though public, is not visible to lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@maegul

Wait, so, #Lemmy has no ability to just fetch a random non-Lemmy post by URL?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nope, Lemmy's search doesn't work by URL. I can put in search terms to search across the federation, or I can do [email protected] (example [email protected] ) to search for an instance. I imagine I could search anything that's covered as a "Group" under ActivityPub protocol, but Mastodon doesn't really use those and I don't know any other AP service that does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not that I know of. Unless the content fits into the post-comment-reply structure, it doesn’t come here. DMs might be a different story all together, but they’re not a great feature over the fediverse anyway.

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