I am still learning this whole thing and I ended up creating accounts here and on Mastodon. Is that necessary or do I automatically have a Mastodon username with my Lemmy? I used the same stuff on both accounts, can I merge them or something?
Edit: thanks everyone, I can’t respond to each comment while I’m at work, but I appreciate every one of you!
Is it even possible to have your Lemmy account sign into Mastadon?
I tried to do this with the Tusky app and it said “Failed authenticating with that instance” so I figured it isnt possible.
Mastodon has an API of its own, just like Lemmy. You can follow/respond/like things cross platform, but the client apps need their own special API for sending data to the server.
It’s a real shame, because the ActivityPub standard that makes following other servers possible also has a spec detailing how to do client/server communication, but very few ActivityPub servers have bothered to implement it.
Do you know of any that are accepting new users?
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