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Following a Lemmy community from Mastodon (startrek.website)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know it's theoretically possible to follow a Lemmy community from Mastodon, but what format does the community address need to be? I'd like to streamline and not juggle two apps if possible.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In the Mastodon web interface, you can take the URL of the Lemmy community and paste it into the search bar. After you press Enter, the community should show up, and you can follow it.

Another way to reference the community is using @ notation. For this community, you'd use @[email protected] in Mastodon.

I use Ivory to access my Mastodon account, and I've found that it doesn't recognize URLs from Lemmy at all. So, the @ notation works best there. Regardless, the Mastodon web interface handles it all properly.

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

@tarasoraptor Testing replying to Lemmy from mastodon 💾

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It worked! ;)

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

for anyone following lemmy from mastodon, is there any way to sort posts by top/hot?

I tried to look up lemmy communities but the feed in mastodon was basically a chronological dump and not optimal

ideally there would be a client that can do chronological feeds AND the reddit-esque post view where items are ranked somehow

I guess kbin.social is the closest thing but I don’t really like their overall interface and it keeps going down or is super slow

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

@technology

Nope, it's just the feed of comments & posts from a community. I also find that for some communities there's no feed. It's really clunky for any frequent use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

@[email protected] Well, I just saw your post on my calckey instance because i subscribed to @[email protected]

;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

has anybody been able to do the opposite & subscribe to a mastodon user from lemmy? i've tried to put beehaw.org/c/[email protected] into the url bar but it doesn't work, neither does putting the full url into search

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

kbin has that feature but Lemmy does not

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

damn, i was hoping to have everything in one app.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Lemmy purposely doesn't allow that; it's one-way with no intentions of changing.

Kbin allows it, though. Kbin merges Lemmy and Mastodon so you can easily flip between one or the other. You can follow Lemmy communities and Mastodon users, and you can be followed by Mastodon users. It's one reason why I switched.

https://fedia.io is the currently-recommended instance right now; should still be open sign-ups. Check your email for confirmation if you register; it tends to go to spam.

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

That's a shame. Kbin seems to have a very Apple approach to its UI, dumbing things down and making it hard to find stuff. I like Lemmy's UI, but would like to be part of the fediverse and not just... the Lemmyverse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Kbin is barely a prototype, so I wouldn't say it has a real approach to the UI. It's about to go through a lot of change as contributors begin working on a more thoughtfully designed UI. Many basics are not even implemented in its current state, so expect it to change a lot. Also third-party apps will start showing up once an API is added.

That is, check on it again in a few weeks.

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

thanks for letting me know, guess i'll probably make a kbin account just for mastodon since i don't really like twitter/mastodon's ux

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

As far as I know, Lemmy doesn't have a way of following anyone else on the Fediverse, but you can certainly follow Lemmy users from Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

id@server For community of ska: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/ska it would be [email protected] the id to use in the search field.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I think you can just search for the https url directly since both Mastodon and Lemmy have WebFinger support.

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

A lot of communities from other instances either show 404 or are empty when browsing to them from kbin but on the other instance, they have content. Is this just technical issues while everything gets ramped up and connected?

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

The connections have a delay and it takes a little to servers to accept the new servers connections. 404 Error eventually happen, maybe you need to connect more (comments and subscriptions) with other communities in the server that you want or in another servers to make discoverable your account (I don't know how exactly this software works, but fediverse is similar).

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

Makes sense. Thanks!