Hello, some people have told me that it is possible to see lemmy posts from mastodon. To me it makes a lot of sense to have a single app for whole fediverse. However, mastodon is not doing a good job at this.
Each time I look at my mastodon home feed, it is spammed with completely random posts from lemmy which do not even show up in the organised view wefwef/memmy provide. Is there any way how to take care of this?
For lemmy I have found wefwef and memmy to be actually quite good. Interface is simple and easy to use, posts look organised. On mastodon it just feels far worse, especially with lemmy connected.
Are there any alternatives to the official mastodon app that would allow better integration with lemmy? To me it seems logical to have a single app for both platforms as they use the same principle.
Mastodon and Lemmy both use the same underlying protocol, but are fundamentally different types of content with different paradigms for interacting with it.
There are folks working on combining the two into an app or platform - Kbin is one - but mashing the content together is going to give the garbage UX you describe.
Yeah, in Mastodon I follow specific accounts that I like to hear from.
In Lemmy I'm in communities to get the latest info on a topic, like the composting community I just found lol
Exactly. Mastadon is about who is sharing, Lemmy is about what is being shared.
I get your point. I see the way of posting is quite different. mastodon has simpler posts.
So if there was a feature to interact via one app with both platforms, it would make more sense to approach this from the lemmy perspective
To be honest, I do not even know what kbin is
Kbin is a Lemmy clone that has a mastodon client built in. It uses slightly different terminology (e.g. magazines instead of communities) but is otherwise functionally the same.