Hi All, I’m new to the Fediverse but I’m slowly learning about it and it excites me. It has shown me that there is more than the big services to be enjoyed.
However, one thing I’m not sure on is how to following users across the Fediverse works. I have an Lemmy account on lemmy.world instance and I have a Mastodon account on mastodonapp.uk instance.
I have installed the official Mastodon app, I searched and found my Lemmy user account (@SonyJunkie@lemmy.world) in the app and followed it but when I post on Lemmy these do not show up in the Mastodon app or timeline. I tried @ing my Lemmy account from my Mastodon account and it obviously showed showed up in my timeline but I didn’t get any notification on my Lemmy account.
Am I misunderstanding how this works? If so, please can someone explain it to me using words of one syllable or less!!
I wouldn’t expect to see mastodon content in Lemmy at the moment; I’m pretty sure that functionality hasn’t been built in. Kbin can view Mastodon content as “microblogs”. I’m not sure how ‘viewing lemmy content from Mastodon’ is supposed to work since it doesn’t work in the other direction.
Viewing lemmy from mastodon just shows you the posts. It’s not much useful, as you can’t see the comments, and it tends to be a bit noisy, too. That said, it still works.