Hello folks. Is it technically possible to push the Lemmy instance by mirroring content from the public Mastodon start page to individual Lemmy pages? The interface should be able to do that? (Maybe I don’t understand the Fediverse again.) If it is possible, is there a guide on how to mirror public Mastodon content to Lemmy? e.g. from this random page https://mstdn.social/explore
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Anyone posting something on Mastodon can tag a lemmy community to mirror the post there as a new post. It ends up looking a bit strange (it’s obvious it was a Mastodon post), as hashtags end up in the title.
A fair bit of Mastodon content doesn’t fit well on Lemmy. One mundane technical reason is that their posts don’t always split up well into the post title / post body that Lemmy expects. A cultural reason is that Mastodon users have a much higher tolerance for other users promoting things like their patreon than Lemmy users do. Even if the posts split well, and is content that Lemmy would like, bringing in the replies to it opens up a spam vector.
Lemmy let’s you impersonate other users. I used to do that with https://lemmy.world/c/tails@lemmon.website, but stopped because the above-mentioned reasons made it tricky to automate (and because I got bored with it)
The Mastodon tags and user mentions are also out of place on Lemmy.
While possible, I think it ends up being a bit of a janky setup. The problem is that Lemmy doesn’t let you follow individual users, whether they are on Lemmy or Mastodon.
You could try out mbin. It’s similar to Lemmy, but has a microblogging feed that you can use to follow people
Personally I keep a separate mastodon account since I find the formats to be separate
Rule 5
I don’t want support (because I’m no server admin). An answer how it’s possible, or not is enough.
Rule 5: not a tech support community. There are other places to try like !fediverse@lemmy.world. Locking.
