Hello,
It’s hard to find information about this in this early stage of Lemmy.
I know that there is a protocol “ActivityPub” that kind of allows communication between Fediverse platforms and instances.
My use case is the following one: If a specific person posts a tweet/toot on Mastodon, I want to automatically create a post in a Lemmy community.
Can you give me some tips how to achieve this? I’m a software developer by the way, so writing code is not a problem. But is it even necessary to write code?
You can post from Mastodon to Lemmy by mentioning the name of the community in your post using the @ communityName @ serverName.tld format. The first line of your lemmy post becomes the thread title and the reminder becomes the body.
I tried this out on my mastodon account and it worked really well. Honestly, if browsing communities on Mastodon wasn’t such a nightmare I wouldn’t even need the Lemmy account.
I’m hoping one day we’ll be able to follow communities in mastodon using the ! channel @ serverName.tld notation. It could simplify the way people maintain mas groups as well.
You can follow communities not using the double @, but all that turns up in your mastodon feed are boosts.