I’ve heard that federation is broken right now on Beehaw. When it comes back, will I be able to access Beehaw from Mastodon? How would I do that?

  • tezoatlipocaEnglish
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    2 years ago

    You can “follow” communities on a Lemmy instance just like a regular user.

    Lets say we’re talking [email protected] (and the federation isn’t bork).

    Search for @[email protected] in Mastodon and (if the federation isn’t bork) it should find the community as a user and you can follow.

    Followed communities in Mastadon:

    • all posts and comments show in an amorphous stream as individual toots – depending on what interface you use it could be just random toots or they’re displayed threaded
    • they all show as boosts from the community “user”… which if you think about it, that’s all a community does - it reboots all posts and comments-on-posts to all subscribers of the community.
      • kinttach@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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        2 years ago

        That was easier than I expected. On the Mastodon instance that I use, no previous posts show up (I tried a few communities on other servers). I believe that’s because no one has previously subscribed from that server, so they weren’t federated yet. I’ll watch them over the next few hours.

        • tezoatlipocaEnglish
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          2 years ago

          No actually its because msgs “boosted” by the community will only be sent to your inbox post-follow, if that makes sense. For the same reason when you search for and sub to a community on one Lemmy instance to a comm. on another, it only gets the last few posts; but your instance will get all the ones that come after.

          Essentially following a lemmy community is like a magazine subscription; you don’t get all the previous ones retroactively, but you get all the ones that come after you subscribe/follow.