cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/37748055
… where every platform communicates with every other platform. i’ve rarely ever seen a post from mastodon on here, and even if it’s technically possible, it doesn’t seem that it happens very often.
likewise, i’ve rarely if ever seen a post from lemmy on mastodon. these two platforms just don’t seem to interact much.
the fediverse is already very small. fragmenting it even further by having multiple services that basically don’t talk to each other is not good. we need to either (a) aggressively find a way to bridge certain lemmy communities to be more visible on mastodon, especially location-based communities, or (b) i think that i’ll have to decide to only use mastodon in the future, because that’s where all my irl-friends are (yes i have those too, i do not only exist in a terminally online state :) and because mastodon is bigger already and that’s why i think that it has a bigger chance of taking off.
so, what do i suggest should happen?
especially for location-based communities (australia, london, darmstadt, …) it should be more probable for people living in these locations to draw use out of the lemmy community. maybe it’s just a question of showing lemmy content from these communities on mastodon home pages, or auto-subscribing mastodon users to nearby lemmy communities. something like that.
My Mastodon feed is full of Lemmy posts, the reverse is less true.
That doesn’t really change the fact that they aren’t identical use-cases.
This seem to stem from a misunderstanding. Lemmy and Mastodon have different goals. Users of each generally don’t want the other’s content generally showing up en masse.
If you want to see something from Mastodon, you can usually get it on Lemmy, and vice versa. I don’t often see Mastodon posts either, but that’s because I only follow Lemmy communities, so I only see them when someone on Mastodon tags a Lemmy community in their post. If you want to see more Mastodon content, see if you can follow some users or hashtags from Lemmy.
But that might not be supported; I haven’t tried. If you prefer Mastodon, I’m pretty sure that you can follow Lemmy communities from there.
I would really be fine following some Lemmy communities on Mastodon, but the Lemmy developers have made the absurd choice to have a community reblog every single comment made on one of its posts. Why??? Threadiverse users don’t see it like that, they just see the posts.
lemmy and mastodon are more than just activitypub frontends. mastodon is for microblogging where you follow users while lemmy and other threadiverse software is a discussion forum and news aggregator where you follow communities. it’s cool you can share some posts across these platforms but there is a reason you don’t see the same posts everywhere and that’s a good thing.
It’s quite trivial to follow a Lemmy community or user.from Mastodon. Then it’s just on your feed like normal. To post a new thread from Mastodon you just @ mention the community. On oirFed you can hashtag your post, too.
It’s really following Mastodon from Lemmy that’s a challenge. As there’s no mechanism to follow users or hashtags here.
I sometimes see my own Lemmy posts, and often others’, on Mastodon, but I have no idea how it happens: It seems random, and I’m not the one doing it…
You can view Lemmy content from other fediverse platforms like Mastodon. Either directly, via a user page, a community, a hashtag, following one of those things and seeing it in your feed, or just having it surfaced in one of the other feeds when the server knows it exists (probably from someone on the server following one of those things).
You can probably do the same thing from Lemmy. I see Mastodon posts pretty often when someone tags a Lemmy community.
