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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Basically your post is already "posted" there. Anyone with a mastodon account on an instance that federates can see it. They could either paste on their mastodon search interface the url to this post and see it appear as a mastodon message. They could then reply on mastodon and it would show for you here on your lemmy instance.

They could also follow your account on mastodon or a community just as if you were a mastodon user and then see your posts on their timeline.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Not quite. Lemmy isn't set up to make microblog posts, but mastodon users can still see community posts and comments and reply.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If a mastodon user comments on AA Lemmy post, and a Lemmy user replies, it will be delivered to the mastodon user. I've not tried posting to a mastodon user directly though.

Paging myself at @[email protected] to see if this works.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

@[email protected]
It does indeed work. So you can post directly to a mastodon user from a Lemmy post comments section.
@pineapplelover

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

How do I @ a user like you did?

@[email protected]

Edit: hmm interesting that's cool

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

Will it? That’s pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Narrator: It did.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

If some user follows you or community it will get federated into mastodon. Otherwise you can't relly push the post into mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yes, but no.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

@pineapplelover @tezoatlipoca You just did! It’s ActivityPub all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If you mention a Lemmy community in a post on Mastodon, it appears as a post in that community. Like this post on Mastodon: it also shows up in the Lemmy community "Linux", and many if the comments are from Lemmy users: https://social.edu.nl/@foxy/111937325118529631

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I don't think you can do microblogging like on mbin, but I think you can directly write and reply to Mastodon users, and posts with hashtags should also be able to be found by Mastodon users if they look for them. I don't think Lemmy threads have a hashtag field like mbin either though, so you would have to manually type them out when making a new thread.

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

@pineapplelover I think you just did, he says from mastodon

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

@pineapplelover I must subscribe to [email protected] or something. Wherever u posted to

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago