@youshouldknow YSK that you can post to Lemmy from Mastodon, and Mastodon users can interact in Lemmy threads. This is a Mastodon account.
Seems like there’s a new wave of Lemmy users, thought they may find that interesting! It can also work with other Fediverse software as well. It’s all interconnectable. It’s not perfect and there’s some quirks due to Lemmy being a forum and Mastodon being a microblog. But you can ping Mastodon users in threads, and they can reply seamlessly.
Information only gets sent to an instance if someone is following whatever created it.
If you follow a community as if it’s a user the posts will federate to your instance.
I did try that (following the community), but the mastodon account’s “request to follow” has been stuck in “awaiting approval” status. I run the Lemmy community that I’m trying to follow with my Mastodon account, but I don’t see how or where to approve these follow requests.
Are those requests gated by the mastodon admin perhaps?
I’m having the same problem. There was a bug for this (which was closed) https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4341
It may have been re-opened, but I haven’t been able to find it after a quick search.
Sometimes Lemmy doesn’t send a response saying that the follow worked
If the mastodon instance never receives acknowledgement that the follow-request was approved, it’s probably not going to start fetching those messages. I’ve tried un-following and re-following; it still doesn’t work.
As I said intially, I think that qualifies the integration as only kinda-sorta working.