As of right now, you can follow either Lemmy accounts directly or follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon relatively easily if you know what you are searching for. This is really cool because you can read (and participate to !) discussions without having tu use a Lemmy-specific app or account. The wonders of the fediverse !

But the interaction through mastodon has a few issues, notably:

Communities repost comments too, making the community feed unreadable
Media in Lemmy posts are links, which make them quite cumbersome to watch (which is also the case in Lemmy itself ? I'm curious as to why) (minor problem)
To my knowledge, you can't post to a Lemmy community from Mastodon, but that's to be expected I guess. (minor problem)

The discussions on Lemmy often are more interesting than over on mastodon but I prefer mastodon's format so I am way more active over there. It would be way more pleasant to have everything in the same feed but because of 1. this isn't possible at the moment.

So the question is: does anybody know if Lemmy can or will fix any of these issues, especially n°1 ? Or is this something to be fixed on Mastodon's side ?

sry for English 🙃

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[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

A groups rework is currently on mastodon's roadmap as inprogress. We've not heard a lot of what this will look like but it's very likely it will solve issue 1.

2 is related to how Mastodon handles the ¿page? object in the activitypub spec. I believe Mastodon prefers notes but could implement dedicated handling of it and probably will at some point.

3 is actually just incorrect. All you need to do is mention the community and it will post.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

The groups implementation for Mastodon has been stuck as a draft for 1.5 years now, I wouldnt expect it to get merged anytime soon. Even worse, for reasons I dont understand they made the group federation intentionally incompatible with Lemmy.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19059