All this talk about using mastadon account on lemmy IS BULLSHIT. Sorry but - reading about mastadon account etc made it sound like lemmy is just another mastadon instance. Or another "perspective" on the same underlying data. It kind of works but it's absolutely confusing and frustrating to try to do this. Just make a new lemmy account - which I was trying to avoid because I thought with federation I should be able to move freely between instances.

It would be nice to merge these kinds of "social media modes". I believe reddit tried to do something similar with following users etc. But it's not there yet and only hampers adoption to advertise this.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I know people will hate the idea, but these federates services need an SSO somehow.

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Or a better "landing page" like an app that can manage multiple instances easily. Or merge multiple communities from different instances. But running in my browser. I'm sure this is in the works with the other lemmy clients or self hosting.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

No pun intended, it's more like federated identity (hope I'm not being pedantic)

But I'm with you. I'm the weirdo who likes their data together and uniformly vulnerable lol

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

haven't tried it but couldn't you technically login to a lemmy-app with your mastodon-account?

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe with an advanced lemmy app, but from the website it doesn't work from my experience. Or is incredibly clumsy.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

wiggle your trunk if you can read this..

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm on Kbin, what should I wiggle?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 14 points 2 years ago

your kaboose, of course

[–] WeirdAlex03@universeodon.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@TropicalDingdong @fossilesque *wiggles*

[–] WeirdAlex03@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago

Huh. I know Masto doesn't do Markdown formatting, but I think that would've worked here. I guess escaping that does make more sense though

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Instructions unclear. Trunk stuck in the keyboard.

[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can you make an inverse instructional on how to browse and post to Mastadon from Lemmy? Lol

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

~~Use hashtags in your post body, and it will Federate. :)~~

See below

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

for posting. yes this is specific to the perchance community, but you can use it for any community

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Nice post.

[–] Ilgaz@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Actually after noticing the general user profile here, I plan another exodus to some place else.

[–] Blaze@discuss.online 2 points 2 years ago

Nice tutorial

[–] michaelc@social.rootaccess.org 1 points 1 year ago

@fossilesque This is really neat! I really like being able to be on a completely different instance and commenting/favoriting from other federated instances.