As of right now, you can follow either Lemmy accounts directly or follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon relatively easily if you know what you are searching for. This is really cool because you can read (and participate to !) discussions without having tu use a Lemmy-specific app or account. The wonders of the fediverse !
But the interaction through mastodon has a few issues, notably:
- Communities repost comments too, making the community feed unreadable
- Media in Lemmy posts are links, which make them quite cumbersome to watch (which is also the case in Lemmy itself ? I’m curious as to why) (minor problem)
- To my knowledge, you can’t post to a Lemmy community from Mastodon, but that’s to be expected I guess. (minor problem)
The discussions on Lemmy often are more interesting than over on mastodon but I prefer mastodon’s format so I am way more active over there. It would be way more pleasant to have everything in the same feed but because of 1. this isn’t possible at the moment.
So the question is: does anybody know if Lemmy can or will fix any of these issues, especially n°1 ? Or is this something to be fixed on Mastodon’s side ?
sry for English 🙃
Am I weird for thinking comparing Lemmy and Mastodon is odd? To me it’s almost like saying “I prefer apples over gravity” - they’re two completely different things in my opinion.
Yeah, I think they have very different use cases. For Lemmy, I’ve mostly figured out what that is and it feels familiar to me. For Mastadon, I’m still trying to figure it out.
I was never on any of the microblog platforms.
Microblogging is pretty much just box into which you can shout whatever you want, and sometimes people interact with what you said.
Makes me think of doing a monologue or something. Lol