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c/support · by kinttach@beehaw.org · 3y

How do I access Beehaw or Lemmy from Mastodon?

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?

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HiT3k@beehaw.org · 4 pts · 3y

You can follow communities from the Mastodon app, but the experience will be "microblog-y" in nature. Communities are represented as users on Mastodon. So, search for @technology@beehaw.com on Mastodon. You will see all the posts in the community as "toots," and all comments as replies.

tezoatlipoca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y (3 replies)

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

Lets say we're talking support@beehaw.org (and the federation isn't bork).

Search for @support@beehaw.org 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.
tezoatlipoca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Like here it is in Elk:

kinttach@beehaw.org · 0 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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.

tezoatlipoca@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3y

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.