You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

but pasting

[email protected]

into my search bar at mas.to does absolutely nothing?

[–] poorlydrawnarsenal 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It’s confusing but following that account is subscribing to the Lemmy community, it just shows up in your mastodon feed.

It gets a bit wonky when you view it from the Lemmy instance. Something that I hope that the powers that be fix soon with federation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@poorlydrawnarsenal do replies made from mastodon show up there?

[–] poorlydrawnarsenal 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yup, so I’m currently replying to you from my Lemmy account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@poorlydrawnarsenal that's great, thanks. That means I don't have to create a new social media account, yay

[–] poorlydrawnarsenal 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah I think federation is really cool. Imagine using your Twitter account to reply to an Instagram post in your feed and your reply shows up on Instagram. It’s just hard to explain federation without using it haha.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@ronsboy67 @poorlydrawnarsenal the only thing I don't think you can do from Mastodon is create a post on Lemmy

[–] poorlydrawnarsenal 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You actually can! When you make a post if you tag the account @gunners @lemmy.world (but formatted correctly, I didn’t want to make a post) it will create a post in the community.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

@poorlydrawnarsenal oooh I will try this sometime. At least until I find a good Lemmy app for the iPad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

@raumdeuter @poorlydrawnarsenal that's fine. I don't want to creat an account there for the same reason I didn't join @arsenalfc.social on mastodon - so much of my posting has nothing to do with the greatest football club in the history of History, so would be irrelevant😀

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@ronsboy67 @poorlydrawnarsenal @I_am_the_grass @gunners

I honestly don’t understand what the Lemmy stuff is all about… does this means it links with multi-accounts? Such as posting from one area which posts across multiple platforms?

[–] poorlydrawnarsenal 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, so Lemmy is like Reddit. It’s a thread based social media site, but you can access it and comment on posts from your mastodon feed.

So theoretically you only need one account to access the fediverse equivalents of Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, etc.

It’s for sure not perfect. It’s wonky but it’s also kinda early days for it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@poorlydrawnarsenal ah okay.. I understand.. I tried to do this once with messengers, but it all failed.. but seems more possible with social media..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@Hantsravens @poorlydrawnarsenal it helps that a lot of these sites are entering their "enshittification" phases (as @pluralistic has coined) at around the same time. A lot of thought went into how to grab the web back from tech monopolies several years ago and this is the result.

The various exoduses has put a strain on the smaller servers and they're still working through that (especially the Lemmy servers) but hopefully as time goes on things get smoother.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@poorlydrawnarsenal thanks for explaining

[–] Astrealix 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I quit Reddit like right from the start; it's easier this way. Annoyingly not nearly as much stuff to doomscroll on Lemmy but it'll get there eventually. And Twitter helps out with F5 antsiness lol

[–] I_am_the_grass 2 points 2 years ago

Yea, I tried doing that but I'm also a heavy content contributor on /r/gunners so I guess it was harder.

But I have to pick a platform eventually.

[–] Uncrasimatic 1 points 2 years ago

I haven't been back to Reddit since they nuked the apps. I like to think it's a total graveyard.