Help connect to Mastodon through Lemmy (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 1 month ago by NeuralNomad@lemmy.cafe to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I thought Activity Pub enables you to connect to all Federated servers. Why am I having difficulty subscribing to Mastodon feeds?

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[-] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Lemmy only supports following groups. It will reject a post if it isn't posted to a group.

Check out piefed and mbin for things that are more compatible.

[-] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

You cannot follow everything from everything.

From Mastodon you can follow Lemmy communities and Lemmy users. Some Lemmy communities name gets hashtags on mastodon, e.g. if you follow #idm there, you will see posts from !idm@lemmy.zip
From Lemmy you cannot follow/subscribe to anything from Mastodon. You can see replies and posts of Mastodon users in Lemmy communities

If you want to follow all from one account with a Lemmy-like interface, the closest you can get is with Mbin. There you can follow Lemmy communities, Mastodon and Lemmy users. You cannot follow Mastodon hashtags though.