Basically just what the title says, how well do they work together/interact with each other and how can it be improved?

I don't like microblog-style social media, but there are some people and/or organizations that I'd like to follow (for example, Nick from the Linux experiment). To my knowledge, I pretty much just have to keep mastodon around to see microblog content. I'd really rather just follow the few people I want to from here and otherwise maintain the current functionality of Lemmy.

One option could be to have a client that uses both platforms together, but I think that would just be clunky (like the title of this post, sorry about that). Another would be to add the ability to follow people into Lemmy, but I think that may mess up how Lemmy is intended to work. The last option I've been able to come up with is turning a mastodon user into a community, kind of like the reverse of what mastodon does to Lemmy communities.

I know a lot of people probably don't want microblog-style functionality on Lemmy (I'm one of them for the most part) but I think the entire concept of the fediverse is kind of a moot point if the various different platforms can't actually interact properly. Right now, it seems like mastodon is the only one that really talks to other platforms the way they're all supposed to. I'd really like to be able to access all of the fediverse's content from right here on Lemmy, because it is my favorite fediverse platform and part of the point of the fediverse is to only need one platform for all of the content.

Let me know what y'all think about the current state of interoperability between Lemmy and mastodon (or just fedi platforms in general) and what can and/or should be done to improve it.