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These instructions don't appear to be documented. Here's a post from a bit while ago that covers the basic functions of participating on Lemmy via Mastodon mentions.

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[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 57 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's true this is a thing that you can do, but the experience seems pretty degraded vs. just registering an account with a Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed/Sublinks (did I miss any?) instance which is natively configured for the kind of threaded conversations that exist on this segment of the fediverse. The instructions basically amount to "Go to a Lemmy instance and use its interface to find a community you're interested in, then copy the link to the discussion you want to interact with and paste that into your Mastodon instance's search bar, then reply to the post that appears. It's that simple!"

If you only interact with threads occasionally or you just want to try it out from Mastodon, this is workable, but you need a lot of patience for the busywork that's involved.

[–] Snoopy@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago

True, the masto timeline is weird and messed up. Hozever, the oreason i use mastodon and iceshrimp is because my experience on Lemmy is also degraded.

I need hashtag badly, we need the fediverse connection. I think english speaking communities doesn't notice this problem because they have enough people to talk, share content...

The support of hashtags is missing, we can't interact with peertube account, nor mastodon. Mbin is better. Piefed will work on it, they did a tremendous job with feed, pixelfed, peertube. it's an amazing experience. They are pretty close to lemmy parity functionalities and they even surpass them.

Only few options are missing :

  • crosspost
  • mobile app (interstellar will support piefed)
  • comment and mod view

But yeah, as you said xposting from mastodon is lot work but some masto user came, so i'm happy :)