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?

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • DharkStare@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        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.