Actually mastodon users can browse lemmy, but they don't see upvotes.
Accounts are specific to server instances, got it. There’s obviously no Mastodon content on Lemmy yet, so I understand the limitation. Thanks all!!
It seems to me that you can interact with posts from Mastodon with a Lemmy account, but can only log in to your home server with it. So your view if the world will be Lemmy-like. Probably you could make an account on a Mastodon server and use a Mastodon app with it to interact with Lemmy posts in a Mastodon-flavored way. There's also kbin, that does both reddit-style posts with an OP, a title, and comments; and also Twitter-style status message posts with comments but no title ("microblogs").
I don't know how to see the microblogs posted to a community from Lemmy, but presumably they could exist if a Mastodon-wielder put then there.
The Lemmy world is fundamentally incompatible with the mastodon world.
Mastodon doesn't have communities at all. It just isn't a feature yet. So you can't really subscribe to anything from mastodon because you're looking a cliff face with no hand holds. There's nothing we can subscribe to. When I look at my fbxl social user with fbxl Lemmy, I have 3 options: send message, block user, or ban. No way to follow a user because Lemmy isn't for that.
Mastodon can communicate with Lemmy because of the way it's implemented, however: you can follow a community like a user, and it'll repost anything it's tagged in so you can participate in Lemmy with Mastodon.
Ah. So it's a one-way pipe from Lemmy to Mastodon. It's not possible to have a Lemmy community set up to mirror a Mastodon hashtag? (perhaps that's how kbin does things)
Unfortunately, my instance is soapbox with its own back-end, so I don't know about how hashtags on mastodon would be interpreted. Might work!
Here is the issue as I understand it: Both Lemmy and Mastodon use the same ActivityPub protocol to transmit messages. But, it's kinda like a form with different fields, and because the two sites are formatted differently (effectively the difference between Reddit and Twitter, one has hashtags the other has communities) they leave some of the fields blank that the other expects to have filled in.
Having lived in the world of "these are separate platforms run by separate for-profit companies so they don't work together on purpose because they're each trying to keep your eyes on THEIR platform (and THEIR ads)" for so long, it's hard to imagine being able to tweet a facebook post or post a Youtube video to Reddit without basically copy-pasting a link or uploading a screenshot. Perhaps as the Fediverse matures it'll start to make sense.
I think people on Mastadon can see and reply to our posts and comments, but I don't think we can 'browse' content on mastadon quite the same way.
This is where /kbin comes in. It's has threads and microblogging so it's compatible with both lemmy and mastadon.
Home of the sh.itjust.works instance.
