I’ve tried to log into Lemmy through multiple apps using my Mastodon username and instance, but I get errors.

I thought federated accounts were supposed to be usable across applications.

Am I misunderstanding?

  • PupBiru@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    i thought the way it worked was that communities and users in lemmy/kbin have an @ on mastodon, and that users posts in a community show up as a toot on their user account with an @ for the community, and then communities retoot and anyone can reply to those toots?

    … but that doesn’t seem to be it: at least right now, communities and users show no toots on my instance

    however you should be able to search for and find communities and instances as accounts at least:

    @caseinpoint@reddthat.com
@meta@kbin.social

    (first being the user that posted this thread, the second being a kbin community)

    both of these are findable on mastodon; also tried a lemmy community but that didn’t seem to work?