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Can I subscribe to mastodon users? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by tavius02@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I know it's possible to follow communities on lemmy from a mastodon account, but I was wondering if it's possible to do the reverse, and subscribe to a mastodon user? I wanted to try and get a combined feed from both platforms - I prefer lemmy, and given it works one way I was hoping it might work the other?

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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, on lemmy you can't subscribe to users at all. What activitypub call groups is what lemmy uses. A mastodon user can subscribe to a community on lemmy, because mastodon allows for subscribing/following groups, but the other way around, following users from lemmy that are on any other platform is not possible.

The Dev said that it would be a huge amount of work to implement this and it doesn't even fit into the linkblog style thing that lemmy is. How would the content of said user be shown to you here? It would get even more confusing fast.

[–] 7eter@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

i would like to get the posts that the person i am subscribed to be shown in my home feed. No matter if i am joined to the specific community that it was posted in. And if the subscribed person isn't on Lemmy their post could theoretically even be shown without an according community. But i'm not sure if i would want that.