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They don't currently interact properly. When a Mastodon post shows up in Lemmy, it doesn't have an appropriate title, the body usually has a bunch of mentions, and the responses aren't worded like normal Lemmy comments.
I can't speak to protocol interoperability, but culturally, Mastodon posts rarely work in Lemmy.
That's the major thing I hate about Mastodon, where threaded comments include every user in the chain. It reads so terribly and just messes up everything. The server knows which comment is nested with other comments, and the UI shows this. The only thing they're useful for is notifications, and even that seems like a solved problem on the server side to handle.
Doesn't Twitter hide the usernames of people in the thread but still notify them? I thought it had some quality of life tweak that made conversations a bit easier to read.
Not sure, but I guess this could be handled entirely client side, but then creates bad experiences across different platforms. I'm not sure what happens now on Mastadon if someone replies to your note and doesn't @ mention you? As someone coming from Reddit, I think they way Lemmy handles nested conversations and notifications makes more sense.
Agreed. For Lemmy content, Lemmy's UI is perfectly cromulent.
What /c community do these posts even show up in?
As far as I see, the one that was tagged in Mastodon.
Lemmy communities are treated as users by Mastodon, and they boost contributions to the communities. If you tag the community in Mastodon, the post will appear in the lemmy community.
They work better than some posts from lemmy <-> lemmy, i get quicker responses and federation with mastodon than with lemmy. The only annoying thing is to start a conversation i and the responder need to ping us both.