I apologize if there’s posts on this already. I’m still new here, and it’s very confusing.
I’ve read through the wikipedia entry, blogs, stack overflow posts, lemmy threads, etc… however in all of them, I feel like everyone glosses over how one goes about subscribing or even viewing content from other “packages”. For example, I have an account on lemmy.world, and am using the lemmy mobile app. I’d like to view / subscribe / participate in content from Misskey. Is this possible?
Everything I’ve read suggests it is, given that both lemmy and misskey leverage the same protocol, though I can’t figure out how that works.
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Generally if you search for the full URL or handle of a profile or community your server should be able to find it. For example to find a user like mark ruffalo I just searched for @MarkRuffalo@mastodon.social on my lemmy instance. After a few tries it did find him but not his posts. I’ve only reliably gotten this searching to work through the main lemmy ui so your mileage may vary depending on the app you use. Misskey should work similarly I believe but I don’t follow or know of anyone on there so not sure
I believe it just finds the user and not the post because the previous posts aren’t synced. So if you are the first user on your instance (eg lemmy.world) to look at that user, only the new posts that this user posts after you have subscribed are synced to the instance.
Upvoted for actually attempting to answer the question. Very well done.
Well, the “how” is technically simple. You paste the URL to the search box and you hit subscribe. You can do that right now with:
- Lemmy communities
- Kbin communities
- PeerTube channels
- Mayyyyybe a.gup.pe / chirp.social groups??? idk how well those would work
Lemmy itself only let you subscribe to ActivityPub Group actors though, so it’s quite restrictive in that regard. kbin adds user follows and microblogging into the mix, but you can’t do those through Lemmy yet (or perhaps ever).
However, the real “problem” is presentation. While you can, say, follow a Lemmy group from Mastodon. Mastodon is not intended for groups so it kinda breaks and ends up spamming your home timeline with all the posts and comments. Other implementations such as Akkoma or Misskey or Calckey (pending rename) might end up interacting better (because Mastodon will try to convert everything it gets into Notes in a “lossy” fashion).
While the protocol does allow you the freedom to interact between services, you will not get the best experience if you’re not on a “similar enough” service. Although that does not stop you from following a PixelFed account from Misskey, or a Mastodon user accidentally finding their way into the Lemmy comments section. (You can tell because they’ll be the only comments that end up tagging people when replying)
Full disclosure I can be completely wrong, but this is my understanding.
I don’t believe it is possible today to connect your Lemmy to Misskey. I may be wrong, but Lemmy at the moment supports kbin and lemmy. For example, Mastodon can read Lemmy, but Lemmy cannot read Mastodon. This is just a limitation of the way the app is programmed, even though the ActivityPub backend can communicate.