My biggest concern isn’t that there isn’t more cross talk between lemmy and mastodon, and that’s because the fediverse is yet to actually do a good job of making the boundaries between platforms thinner. There are many conversations going on in parallel that would be happy to connect but can’t because the fediverse hasn’t worked out a way to make that work well (yet).
I’m unsure how to subscribe to a person who toots on mastodon and have their toots show up as some form of post here.
Lemmy has no way to follow a person, so it’s impossible. Not sure where such thing sits on a roadmap or whatever, but I get the impression it isn’t a priority, at all maybe.
Lemmy does federate decently with mastodon though, as you point out, so consuming lemmy content from mastodon can work, but isn’t great. Following a community for instance provides all posts and comments, which quickly becomes a firehose. I imagine most don’t do that for long.
Following lemmy accounts on the other hand, IME, works nicely, as only posts are federated over, which is a much more manageable feed.
EDIT: Sorry, this was wrong, comments as well as posts from a specific user do get federated across.
And replies all work well too, so once you’ve made contact with a thread on mastodon by replying, it will all behave naturally for the mastodon platform, which is quite nice to see actually.
There’s also kbin, which tries to fuse the two platforms, but even there, you can’t look at a feed of just the people you follow.
I’m unsure how to subscribe to a person who toots on mastodon and have their toots show up as some form of post here.
For example when I’m looking at https://programming.dev/u/mfowler@toot.thoughtworks.com there’s no way to subscribe or follow.
It’s much easier to get Lemmy content on Mastodon than it is to get Mastodon content on Lemmy.
Lemmy has no way to follow a person, so it’s impossible. Not sure where such thing sits on a roadmap or whatever, but I get the impression it isn’t a priority, at all maybe.
Lemmy does federate decently with mastodon though, as you point out, so consuming lemmy content from mastodon can work, but isn’t great. Following a community for instance provides all posts and comments, which quickly becomes a firehose. I imagine most don’t do that for long.
Following lemmy accounts on the other hand, IME, works nicely, as only posts are federated over, which is a much more manageable feed.EDIT: Sorry, this was wrong, comments as well as posts from a specific user do get federated across.And replies all work well too, so once you’ve made contact with a thread on mastodon by replying, it will all behave naturally for the mastodon platform, which is quite nice to see actually.
There’s also kbin, which tries to fuse the two platforms, but even there, you can’t look at a feed of just the people you follow.