• Baron Von J@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    You just did. By @ mentioning a community you created a post. I’m replying to your post from Lemmy. You can follow the community on mastodon just by using the same @ address as you did in your post. You can follow Lemmy users, but they can’t follow you.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Does the @ mention blast every “technology” community across all federated instances? How did it get posted here without naming a specific instance?

      • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        You have to qualify what instance I’m your @ mention. Clients are just truncating it since we’re already here on this instance.

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        9 months ago

        Theyre two different softwares with two different apis, you can’t

      • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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        9 months ago

        The Lemmy and Mastodon services aren’t great at being interoperable. There’s at least one service out there that’s trying to interconnect all (or most) fediverse services, but I don’t remember enough about to turn up the the name in search.

      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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        9 months ago

        You can only browse Lemmy communities through your Mastodon client (look at/follow @[email protected] where you see posts and replies) You need an account on a Lemmy server to be able to see this community from a Lemmy client.

      • SheeEttin
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        9 months ago

        I’m not sure that you can browse a Mastodon instance from a Lemmy client. I don’t think you can even browse a Lemmy instance from a different one (that is, see a foreign instance’s communities list, or browse their Local feed), only the individual users and communities.

        But you can certainly browse a Mastodon user from Lemmy. Here’s you: https://programming.dev/u/[email protected]