How do I subscribe to content outside of lemmy? - eviltoast

I apologize if there’s posts on this already. I’m still new here, and it’s very confusing.

I’ve read through the wikipedia entry, blogs, stack overflow posts, lemmy threads, etc… however in all of them, I feel like everyone glosses over how one goes about subscribing or even viewing content from other “packages”. For example, I have an account on lemmy.world, and am using the lemmy mobile app. I’d like to view / subscribe / participate in content from Misskey. Is this possible?

Everything I’ve read suggests it is, given that both lemmy and misskey leverage the same protocol, though I can’t figure out how that works.

  • FozzBear@lemmy.mumbled.xyz
    471·
    1 year ago

    Generally if you search for the full URL or handle of a profile or community your server should be able to find it. For example to find a user like mark ruffalo I just searched for @MarkRuffalo@mastodon.social on my lemmy instance. After a few tries it did find him but not his posts. I’ve only reliably gotten this searching to work through the main lemmy ui so your mileage may vary depending on the app you use. Misskey should work similarly I believe but I don’t follow or know of anyone on there so not sure

    • mikazuki@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      I believe it just finds the user and not the post because the previous posts aren’t synced. So if you are the first user on your instance (eg lemmy.world) to look at that user, only the new posts that this user posts after you have subscribed are synced to the instance.

      • SleepingTower@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        1 year ago

        That’d be nice. I think this is what confused me - I made an account here, and expected to be able to use this account to interact with other packages like Funkwhale. However, it seems this is not the case. Each package requires you to create an account on their platform if you want to interact with their content within their app.

      • FozzBear@lemmy.mumbled.xyz
        2·
        1 year ago

        I don’t believe so, it looks like they use their own API. I would guess because they implement a subset of the subsonic API and it might be hard to juggle both. But there’s no harm in trying and seeing what happens.