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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Mastodon has a ton of apps and Lemmy app development is going crazy right now. Are there any apps that can use both Lemmy and Mastodon accounts (and preferably Kbin accounts too)? I know the interfaces may need to be different, but the protocols are the same as far as I understand it, so it seems technically possible.

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Technically all of them work already, just with subpar UI. If you follow a Lemmy community on Mastodon by searching for it like a user, the community’s posts show in your Mastodon timeline.

Each community post appears as a Mastodon post boosted by the community “user”. Threaded replies all work.

To make a post to a community, you tag the user in any top-level Mastodon post.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This is such a clever part of the protocol. So many different UIs are possible with the same underlying framework and data.

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