You can actually browse individual profiles from places like Mastodon on Lemmy. They get interpreted as a community where each post is one “toot” from that user.
Though comments and upvotes don’t proliferate back to the original platform, they live on your instance.
As far as I can tell, this would subscribe you to a user with the username “fediverse”. I’ve already seen a user and a community both named “cat” on the same instance, so that could be a problem if calckey doesn’t differentiate between @fediverse@kbin.social and fediverse@kbin.social.
You follow users the same way you’ve follow someone on Mastodon.
You go to search and add a username in. Mine, for example, would be @emperor@feddit.uk.
This then follows you on here and introduces all your posts and comments into your feed. What I do is create a list of all my Fediverse accounts so if anything I say somewhere needs a boost, I can fish it out:
Lemmy currently doesn’t allow you to follow individuals. As kbin does, it is probably a feature we will see in the future.
For now you’d need a Mastodon, kbin or Calckey account (I recommend the last one).
You can actually browse individual profiles from places like Mastodon on Lemmy. They get interpreted as a community where each post is one “toot” from that user.
Though comments and upvotes don’t proliferate back to the original platform, they live on your instance.
How do I see lemmy from calckey ?
Search for a community just like you would elsewhere.
This place would be
@fediverse@kbin.social, so you’d search that to find this place on the fediverse. Lemmy communities use the same format.As far as I can tell, this would subscribe you to a user with the username “fediverse”. I’ve already seen a user and a community both named “cat” on the same instance, so that could be a problem if calckey doesn’t differentiate between
@fediverse@kbin.socialandfediverse@kbin.social.That is a known bug at the moment. I believe there is a fix in review right now but Codeberg seems to be down.
Try searching for the community like you do a person. @ name @ instance
You follow users the same way you’ve follow someone on Mastodon.
You go to search and add a username in. Mine, for example, would be @emperor@feddit.uk.
This then follows you on here and introduces all your posts and comments into your feed. What I do is create a list of all my Fediverse accounts so if anything I say somewhere needs a boost, I can fish it out: