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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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.
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.
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
Does that microblogging feed produce better contant than following whole communities in your experience?
What kind of content are you looking for? Reading every random thought of people you like, or reading every random person on a subject you are interested in?
Frankly, I’d like to be able to follow a combination of people and subjects, but that’s hard because if I’m a techbro promoting my business by showing off some code, is that marketing or technical content?
One way or the other, you have to mentally filter out posts that don’t interest you.
I like subject-based content like Lemmy and Reddit, but it’s also nice to feel like part of a community where people (kinda) care about you as a person. In order to achieve that here, you need to be in a small community or a prolific enough poster that people get to know you. I also don’t like that microblogging tends to push real names and selfies and stuff—I value my anonymity. I don’t have to worry about someone from work feeling a certain way because I play Dungeons and Dragons or have trans friends or have the occasionally cathartic apoplectic political rant.
One nice thing about Mastodon is you can follow a hashtag and sort of get the best and worst of both worlds. I wish Bluesky offered that. Maybe they will in the future. They do offer custom feeds, but it’s not as simple as just pinning a hashtag in Mastodon, but otherwise I think Bluesky is a lot easier to use. Creating lists of people is easy. I haven’t yet looking into how to create a feed like “Star Wars posts”. Other people have but I don’t know exactly how they function.
Rule 5
I don’t want support (because I’m no server admin). An answer how it’s possible, or not is enough.
