This is very cool. Wordpress also has activitypub integration. I would love it if I could comment âdirectlyâ on blog posts with a Mastodon (or Lemmy!) account.
I tried a few of the federated magazine links they listed, but I canât resolve them in Lemmy. I know Lemmy doesnât do person follows (yet?), so if thatâs how theyâre presented, that makes sense.
But yeah, federation between Mastodon and Lemmy is pretty unidirectional. Users on (most) Mastodon instances can use their accounts to post to Lemmy and follow Lemmy users, but it doesnât really work in the other direction.
Thatâs what Iâve noticed. At one point, I recall being able to at least search for a Mastodon user from Lemmy and have them come up in search results (no posts and couldnât follow). I just spot checked that, and it doesnât seem to do that anymore. I know little about Mastodon so canât even speculate which side the problem may be on.
At one point, I recall being able to at least search for a Mastodon user from Lemmy and have them come up in search results (no posts and couldnât follow).
Hmm, I think that still works provided the Mastodon user has interacted with Lemmy in some way. It will pull up their bio and posts/comments made on Lemmy, but thatâs it.
I think the difficulty lies in the way the two platforms treat user accounts. On Mastodon, itâs pretty straightforward - a user is a user.
On Lemmy, the users are users, and the community federates to Mastodon as a âgroupâ that boosts/retweets every single post and comment that users make to that community. Itâs not really ideal, but Iâm not sure if it can be improved considering the radically different structure of each platform. This is what the Quarkâs feed looks like on Mastodon:
!A screenshot of @quarks as seen on Mastodon, showing the various users being âboostedâ.
Interesting. Could be theyâve never interacted with Lemmy then. I just tried to pull up George Takeiâs Mastodon account from Lemmy, and no results. (@georgetakei). I vaguely recall searching for another user in the past (months ago), and they did come up in search. Unless Iâm just doing it wrong (always a possibility).
Itâs not really ideal, but Iâm not sure if it can be improved considering the radically different structure of each platform.
Yeah. I donât know what changes would need to be made to Lemmy to support following users. There is a person_follow table in the DB, though, so maybe the framework is there but incomplete?
I have a long-running, unreleased fan-fiction project set in the Star Trek universe. In which, the First Contact theme song is an in-universe piece of music called âHumanityâs Themeâ that is played in celebration of Federation Day.
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