I’ve tried to log into Lemmy through multiple apps using my Mastodon username and instance, but I get errors.

I thought federated accounts were supposed to be usable across applications.

Am I misunderstanding?

    • thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee
      5·
      11 months ago

      Hey, so here’s how it works in theory.

      On mastodon, Lemmy communities (not sure about Kbin magazines) show up as groups. But you have to replace the ! in their address with a @ to find them.

      For example I can search for the Star Trek community (!startrek@startrek.website ) on Mastodon by searching for @startrek@startrek.website and follow it like so:

      New posts and comments will then show up in my Mastodon feed as boosts. I can reply to them and it’ll appear on the Lemmy side too.

      You can even make your own Lemmy posts from Mastodon, the first line of your toot will become the post title and the rest will be the body, you just need to tag the “group” in there somewhere.

      Where it gets complicated and my knowledge falls down is that it seems like you can’t always find every community by searching like the above example, and I’m not sure why. For example I just tried @meta@lemm.ee and had no luck. BUT some that I tried to find yesterday to no avail are now showing up this morning, so maybe there’s just a delay in them getting indexed the first time you search for them 🤷‍♀️

      • caseinpointOP
        2·
        11 months ago

        Awesome. Looks like I’m able to find the communities but none of the old posts show.

        Looking forward to see how this goes with new posts!

        Thanks for explaining!

    • PupBiru@kbin.social
      1·
      11 months ago

      i thought the way it worked was that communities and users in lemmy/kbin have an @ on mastodon, and that users posts in a community show up as a toot on their user account with an @ for the community, and then communities retoot and anyone can reply to those toots?

      … but that doesn’t seem to be it: at least right now, communities and users show no toots on my instance

      however you should be able to search for and find communities and instances as accounts at least:

      @caseinpoint@reddthat.com
@meta@kbin.social

      (first being the user that posted this thread, the second being a kbin community)

      both of these are findable on mastodon; also tried a lemmy community but that didn’t seem to work?