We very often see the same username created across many instances
Guilty as charged. I’ll say though, there are several legitimate reasons why one might want to do this. I personally use it as a substitute for Reddit’s multireddit feature, by grouping community subscriptions across different instances by theme. As long as users use the same username across instances I don’t think this practice should be automatically regarded as an attempt to sockpuppet. It that was the goal, the accounts would definitely not be using the same username across all the instances.
I know it’s possible to subscribe to a Mastodon user on a Lemmy instance, but it seems to me like this is of limited utility since the more standard use case on Mastodon is following tags rather than users. So, is it possible to somehow follow a Mastodon tag using Lemmy and get posts with that tag integrated into your Lemmy...
When you search on a mastodon instance, some of the hits will be users. You can narrow down the search to show only those by explicitly specifying so. A segment of those users often look weird because they have no name at all and always share the standard lemmy default icon as profile picture. Like this:
Those are (usually) non-Lemmy Fediverse users, most of which are on Mastodon. You can click on them to see the profile and from that you should be able to follow them.
Edit: While it’s true that you can find Mastodon users on Lemmy using the method described here, you can’t actually subscribe directly to another user to get their posts in your feed, whether they’re on Lemmy or Mastodon. This notion of users directly following users is very much more in line with Mastodon’s design philosophy than Lemmy’s, so you’re probably right that you can follow a Lemmy instance from Mastodon but not the other way around. Please excuse my brain fart.
The only way I can see to make anything similar work would be to have hashtag bots like those described by @RxBrad automatically post into relevant (or separate specialized) Lemmy communities, which admittedly seems like it might be interesting. Whether something like that already exists, though, I have no idea.
Thanks for that input, that’s very cool that those relays exist. I have to apologize anyway though because I apparently was pretty confused when I made the original post, because on Lemmy you can’t directly follow other Lemmy users at all, whether they’re on Mastodon or Lemmy.
Something like what I envisioned might still be workable, but it would take a bit more effort and savvy. It would probably require a Mastodon hashtag bot as well as a dedicated Lemmy community for each tag for the bot to post into. See my edited OP.
Whenever I try to add an instance account, Thunder appears to replace the instance I’m already logged into with the new one, so I can only browse one instance at a time. Is this behaviour intended? If so, will support for multiple instances be added later?
This is what I’ve been doing to log into new instances, but it always seems to just replace the instance I was already logged into with the new one. The UI looks like it’s supposed to show a list of instances and the button says “Add account”, but the list is always empty, no matter if I’ve logged into other instances before.
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Relaying of Mastodon hashtags to Lemmy instances
Does something like this exist? As far as I can tell, setting something similar up would require:...
Can you subscribe to/follow a Mastodon tag using Lemmy?
I know it’s possible to subscribe to a Mastodon user on a Lemmy instance, but it seems to me like this is of limited utility since the more standard use case on Mastodon is following tags rather than users. So, is it possible to somehow follow a Mastodon tag using Lemmy and get posts with that tag integrated into your Lemmy...
Lemmy clients able to federate content from multiple instances?
The only one I’ve seen that can do this so far is Liftoff. Does anyone know of any others?
Does Thunder support multiple instances?
Whenever I try to add an instance account, Thunder appears to replace the instance I’m already logged into with the new one, so I can only browse one instance at a time. Is this behaviour intended? If so, will support for multiple instances be added later?
Is there an app that can make multi communities?
It’s the one thing I miss from Reddit....