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### About Community Tracking and helping #redditmigration to Kbin and the Fediverse. Say hello to the decentralized and open future. To see latest reeddit blackout info, see here: https://reddark.untone.uk/

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Many are turning to Lemmy as a viable Reddit alternative. Here is how to use your existing Mastodon account with Lemmy.

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[–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is great, but I wish I could see /interact with Mastodon posts from Lemmy.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Iirc, you can follow them from lemmy. Kbin will let you interact because they show up in a special “microblog” area, but I’m not sure how lemmy handles it.

[–] bettyspaghetti@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really need to figure out how to follow lemmy stuff from kbin. When I see ones on the front page that are relevant I'll follow them, but I don't know how to actively seek them out. I'm 38, have worked in tech for over a decade now, and this change makes me feel like a damn boomer lmao. Committed to figuring it out though!

[–] Marks@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really you have to use third party tools for discovery. Very hard to discover on kbin outside of the big communities. But I like kbin implementation of the threadiverse the best

[–] bettyspaghetti@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have any tool suggestions? Working on getting my version set up on my desktop while I patiently await an iOS app.

[–] Marks@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use this to explore and find new communities

[–] matt@mastodon.teachmaths.org 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@n3cr0 @stopthatgirl7 So, this comment is a post from my Mastodon instance. Can you see it? If you reply, then you will have interacted with it.

[–] matt@mastodon.teachmaths.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@n3cr0 @stopthatgirl7 ok, I just got a notification that @stopthatgirl7 favourited my post -- I guess you did that my "upvoting" the comment that appeared on Lemmy. This is how mastodon nd lemmy users can interact with each other.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Only I’m using kbin, not lemmy. Kbin and lemmy handle federation differently, so we’ll have to wait and see when someone on lemmy interacts.

[–] matt@mastodon.teachmaths.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@stopthatgirl7 @n3cr0 ok, so it's even cooler then -- we are having a conversation across three different platforms: me on mastodon, you on kbin and @n3cr0 on lemmy. Welcome to the #Fediverse!

[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plus I can follow all of you from all those instances, over on pixelfed (the Instagram analogue), thought I have zero idea how things federate in that direction as I haven't used pixelfed much yet.

Dozens of websites all speaking one language behind the scenes!

[–] matt@pixelfed.teachmaths.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

turns out I have a pixelfed instance too :-)

[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ok straight up how did you comment from it? I tried with mine before making my comment (cause I was gonna do it from pixelfed like you, but I couldn't figure out in the UI how to get to this convo, just a person.

Edit: I literally just made an account last night lol

[–] matt@pixelfed.teachmaths.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I had to paste a link to your comment in the search bar of my pixelfed instance. I think pixelfed UI isn't as well integrated into the fediverse as other platforms, it takes a bit of mucking around to make it play nicely.

[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Makes sense lol

[–] matt@mastodon.teachmaths.org 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@matt@pixelfed.teachmaths.org @GeekFTW hmm... pixelfed doesn't seem to be pushing the updates out, or if it does, there is a long delay. I had to get kbin to pull those couple of comments from my pixelfed instance. I don't use pixelfed very much, there could also be something broken in my setup.

[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I paste the link to a comment into pixelfed it just sits and spins on its thumb so things could just be a bit gimpy.

[–] matt@mastodon.teachmaths.org 2 points 1 year ago

@GeekFTW @matt@pixelfed.teachmaths.org I'm also running an older pixelfed release -- I should probably update it, but it's also possible the newest release may introduce compatibility problems with kbin and/or lemmy

[–] matt@mastodon.teachmaths.org 1 points 1 year ago

@stopthatgirl7 @n3cr0 ok, so it's even cooler then -- we are having a conversation across three different platforms: me on mastodon, you on kbin and @n3cr0 on lemmy. Welcome to the #Fediverse!!

[–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. I'm trying it out. ^^

[–] matt@mastodon.teachmaths.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately, I cannot find a way to follow you via Lemmy. I only found your follow link for Mastodon instances. I can view your posts on Lemmy when clicking on your name. I can also send you a PM or I can block you, but I cannot see or subscribe to your Mastodon contents from Lemmy.

[–] matt@mastodon.teachmaths.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@n3cr0 Here is my mastodon profile on your lemmy instance:

https://lemmy.world/u/matt@mastodon.teachmaths.org

You should be able to follow it, message it, etc. (although no guarantees as to quality content 😉 )

[–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, options are more limited here.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] matt@mastodon.teachmaths.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@stopthatgirl7 @n3cr0 I quite like kbin -- it is sort of the "swiss army knife" of the fediverse...

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

That’s actually why I went for kbin instead of Lemmy - it seems like it federates much better with everything else and is able to more seamlessly pull in more from all around the fediverse.