Hi All, I’m new to the Fediverse but I’m slowly learning about it and it excites me. It has shown me that there is more than the big services to be enjoyed.
However, one thing I’m not sure on is how to following users across the Fediverse works. I have an Lemmy account on lemmy.world instance and I have a Mastodon account on mastodonapp.uk instance.
I have installed the official Mastodon app, I searched and found my Lemmy user account (@[email protected]) in the app and followed it but when I post on Lemmy these do not show up in the Mastodon app or timeline. I tried @ing my Lemmy account from my Mastodon account and it obviously showed showed up in my timeline but I didn’t get any notification on my Lemmy account.
Am I misunderstanding how this works? If so, please can someone explain it to me using words of one syllable or less!!
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things on both mastodon and lemmy are incredibly slow over the past two days, due to the overwhelming twitter/reddit mass migration, i would give it a week before honestly evaluating whether or not posts which should show up, are showing up on either platform in a timely manner
What I did was make a list called “me” and add my various Fediverse accounts to it (ones that I’d previously followed) and this gives me a feed of all my posts.
I started another list for Lemmy communities.
There may be easier was of doing this though.
If you have the time and inclination can you step-by-step this process for us? I’d love to do the same but don’t understand the process. Heck I don’t know what “list” means!
Thanks either way awesome human.
Yep, no worries.
Heck I don’t know what “list” means!
OK then, we’ll start with the basics - a list is just a collection of various items. In the Fediverse you can follow people on the bulk of the services and communities on here. So they are basically the items you’ll be adding to your list.
Bear in mind that:
- I’m still figuring this all out.
- My examples are using Tusky, other Mastodon apps exist.
- I have largely decamped to Calckey.
So the first thing you want to do is follow someone. I will follow you on here for this example.
I hit the search button and add your user ID into search:
I click through and hit “follow”. Happy days.
I assume you are good up to here.
Then on the home page I press my avatar to get the side menu up and we want the 'lists" option:
There’s a big + on this screen to add a new list, so I hit that and get the panel to give it a name.
Then hit “create a list”.and it tags it on the end of any other lists you have. Hitting the ellipsis … gets you the option to edit it, along with other other things you may need to manage the list:
Hit a bit of a bump as you need to accept my follow request for this bit to work so I’ll use another example:
Hit + and it turns to an X (so you can remove them from the list). They are now in your list and, when there are new posts, that list will start to fill up with content.
Hope that helped.
I’m not the one who asked, but THANK YOU so much!! This was incredibly helpful!
No worries, I am still figuring this all out but that does mean it’s still fresh in my mind, where power users are probably doing something fancy.
Another current feature that I have not seen mentioned here are following communities/magazines on Mastodon as groups. For Mastodon users this is a great way to go about filling your feed as an alternative to hashtags. Interoperability in this direction is pretty good and I have found myself unknowingly having full conversations with Lemmy users from Mastodon.
I wouldn’t expect to see mastodon content in Lemmy at the moment; I’m pretty sure that functionality hasn’t been built in. Kbin can view Mastodon content as “microblogs”. I’m not sure how ‘viewing lemmy content from Mastodon’ is supposed to work since it doesn’t work in the other direction.
Viewing lemmy from mastodon just shows you the posts. It’s not much useful, as you can’t see the comments, and it tends to be a bit noisy, too. That said, it still works.
