I’m confused about how I can link Mastodon and Lemmy sites, say. I have an account on Fosstodon. Can I use it to access and post to https://beehaw.org/c/programming for example? I can follow @programming but that’s not the same thing? The beehaw site says to search for !programming@beehaw.org but this returns nothing (with the ! prefix) on fosstodon. Am I missing something? #lemmy #fediverse #beehaw
@jpm
Think of Lemmy as being just a different Mastodon client that happens to display things to their users with a different skin.
You interact with content on a Lemmy instance the same way as you interact with content on a different Mastodon instance.
(Technically they’re both ActivityPub clients, for the more correct terminology)
There do seem to be some kinks to iron out between the clients, though. The ! thing might be one where they disagree on how to handle it.
@programming
I think this is an oversimplification. ActivityPub is the server-to-server protocol. Mastodon and Lemmy each have different client protocols. I think the ! search syntax is part of the Lemmy client protocol specifically, and won’t work on Mastodon.
Lemmy communities will appear on Mastodon as though they are users. So you can find the programming community on Mastodon by searching for
@programming@beehaw.org. If you @mention that account your post becomes a thread on Lemmy. You can follow it, but beware that you will get all replies in your Mastodon feed, not just top-level threads.