I heard on mastodon you can apparently interact with lemmy users, although it presents itself horribly. Is it possible with Jerboa to interact with mastodon?

  • @StarManta
    33•1 year ago

    I like how everyone is answering the literal question asked (is it possible? Yes!) and no one is picking up on the extremely obviously implied question of “how?”

    (I don’t know how or I’d answer)

    • @[email protected]
      16•1 year ago

      Mastodon users can see this thread in their app. It appears as a normal Tweet, and all the comments are replies to the Tweet.

      You often see Mastodon Tweets when you change the sort from Local to All, but unless you pay attention you don’t notice the difference

        • Speckle
          6•1 year ago

          I asked the same question the other day about pixelfed accounts. The consensus was that lemmy can’t follow individual accounts yet but it’s being looked at for future updates.

          Saying that I’m just passing information along and I might not be totally correct

          • @V4uban
            3•1 year ago

            Thank you for your feedback

        • FlaxOP
          5•1 year ago

          I cannot find a way to follow accounts on Jerboa

        • Rairii
          2•1 year ago

          @anirbanbiswas I know you can on kbin (and all remote posts that aren’t in a magazine go into a “random” magazine)

          I’m not sure if you can on lemmy. Reading the documentation, you should be able to paste their URL into the search box, but it’s not working for me on your server (although I’m not logged in there so that may be the reason why).

      • @[email protected]
        1•1 year ago

        Not really. Maybe that’s instance dependent but all I see is posts to lemmy communities. I know that mastodon users can post in lemmy communities by tagging the community and it shows up here but how would a tweet with no tags show up?

        • Compadre de Ogum
          1•1 year ago

          but how would a tweet with no tags show up

          this comment here has no tags

          i have no idea to see a random toot that is not connected to any lemmy post. putting the url in the search (like in mastodon) does nothing

          • @[email protected]
            1•1 year ago

            That’s an account from lemmygrad, so not a tweet. But I get that reply tweets could show up as comments.

                • Compadre de Ogum
                  1•1 year ago

                  i mention nephs, but not the instance.

                  to create a post i MUST mention the instance.

                  the mention is there because mastodon puts it automatically.

  • @[email protected]
    6•1 year ago

    Mastodon users can interact with Lemmy, that why some instances have a “chat” community.
    But you can interact with any community from Mastodon (Ex @jerboa@lemmy.ml), it will show all posts and comments as reply.

    So maybe in the future it’s possible, the app is still alpha and many issues with Lemmy need to be fixed, don’t see interacting with other networks so soon.

    PS: There’s an app Fedilab which works with multiple fediverse networks, maybe it will have support sooner for Lemmy and interact with other networks
    https://codeberg.org/tom79/Fedilab/issues/887
    https://codeberg.org/tom79/Fedilab/issues/886