I am still learning this whole thing and I ended up creating accounts here and on Mastodon. Is that necessary or do I automatically have a Mastodon username with my Lemmy? I used the same stuff on both accounts, can I merge them or something?
Edit: thanks everyone, I can’t respond to each comment while I’m at work, but I appreciate every one of you!
@toasteranimation I’m actually replying to this from my mastodon account on a mastodon app, so I’m perfectly aware it’s possible. The layout is just suboptimal. I’m just wondering why can’t/if an app can be created that I log into with my mastodon account, but shows a layout like lemmy.
Roger. I’m slowly coming up to speed here as the caffeine circulates. As people have explained it here, there are differences in how the microblogs and lemmy instances store their posts/comments/upvotes etc. These formatting differences at the programming level seem to be where the friction is when I’ve asked similar questions. People say, ‘well, upvotes and downvotes don’t work the same way, etc’ . I share your desire and instinctively thought it would be possible when I dove in here last week, but there are issues making a completely unified fediverse app that shows content from all places in your preferred format. I’m an Apollo refugee, so I want my Apollo-clone app (wefwef) that I’m using to show me mastodon content in MY preferred format, but it’s a no go right now. I’m sure an app will come along and make this possible soon. As of now, the kbin people are explicitly aiming to do just this (blend all content from both sides) so try kbin.social for that. I think it’s still buggy
@toasteranimation fair enough. I understand that a lot of this software is still having growing pains, so makes sense that the answer is essentially no for now, maybe if you wait (or try to implement it yourself)
It’s all so new and devs are rushing in so things will evolve quickly. Kbin kinda does the job, but once you try it, you’ll just go back to where you came from because the flow is clumsy, especially if you’re used to something else.
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@toasteranimation I’m actually replying to this from my mastodon account on a mastodon app, so I’m perfectly aware it’s possible. The layout is just suboptimal. I’m just wondering why can’t/if an app can be created that I log into with my mastodon account, but shows a layout like lemmy.
Roger. I’m slowly coming up to speed here as the caffeine circulates. As people have explained it here, there are differences in how the microblogs and lemmy instances store their posts/comments/upvotes etc. These formatting differences at the programming level seem to be where the friction is when I’ve asked similar questions. People say, ‘well, upvotes and downvotes don’t work the same way, etc’ . I share your desire and instinctively thought it would be possible when I dove in here last week, but there are issues making a completely unified fediverse app that shows content from all places in your preferred format. I’m an Apollo refugee, so I want my Apollo-clone app (wefwef) that I’m using to show me mastodon content in MY preferred format, but it’s a no go right now. I’m sure an app will come along and make this possible soon. As of now, the kbin people are explicitly aiming to do just this (blend all content from both sides) so try kbin.social for that. I think it’s still buggy
@toasteranimation fair enough. I understand that a lot of this software is still having growing pains, so makes sense that the answer is essentially no for now, maybe if you wait (or try to implement it yourself)
It’s all so new and devs are rushing in so things will evolve quickly. Kbin kinda does the job, but once you try it, you’ll just go back to where you came from because the flow is clumsy, especially if you’re used to something else.