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Can I use my Lemmy account with Mastodon?
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this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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It seems to me that you can interact with posts from Mastodon with a Lemmy account, but can only log in to your home server with it. So your view if the world will be Lemmy-like. Probably you could make an account on a Mastodon server and use a Mastodon app with it to interact with Lemmy posts in a Mastodon-flavored way. There's also kbin, that does both reddit-style posts with an OP, a title, and comments; and also Twitter-style status message posts with comments but no title ("microblogs").
I don't know how to see the microblogs posted to a community from Lemmy, but presumably they could exist if a Mastodon-wielder put then there.
The Lemmy world is fundamentally incompatible with the mastodon world.
Mastodon doesn't have communities at all. It just isn't a feature yet. So you can't really subscribe to anything from mastodon because you're looking a cliff face with no hand holds. There's nothing we can subscribe to. When I look at my fbxl social user with fbxl Lemmy, I have 3 options: send message, block user, or ban. No way to follow a user because Lemmy isn't for that.
Mastodon can communicate with Lemmy because of the way it's implemented, however: you can follow a community like a user, and it'll repost anything it's tagged in so you can participate in Lemmy with Mastodon.
Ah. So it's a one-way pipe from Lemmy to Mastodon. It's not possible to have a Lemmy community set up to mirror a Mastodon hashtag? (perhaps that's how kbin does things)
Unfortunately, my instance is soapbox with its own back-end, so I don't know about how hashtags on mastodon would be interpreted. Might work!