Many are turning to Lemmy as a viable Reddit alternative. Here is how to use your existing Mastodon account with Lemmy.

I found this blog post useful for explaining how to interact with Lemmy via Mastodon.

  • morpheus17pro@lemmy.cat
    17·
    1 year ago

    It’s really interesting to be able to have this functionality within Mastodon. However, I created a Lemmy account as trying to follow communities from Mastodon was a little bit spammy, as every comment is a boost from the community in my timeline.

    • PriorProject@lemmy.world
      81·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, this post/article is great at explaining the current state of things, but I would not want to engage with Lemmy this way more than like once a month.

      If one is interested in Lemmy, a second account is well worth it to get the community-optimized UX it provides.

  • Drewsteau@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    This is very cool that you can interact between these two sites. I’m going to stick with my Lemmy account for now since this seems like it’s much easier to do on the web browser version of Mastodon and not so much on the apps!

    As another user said I also don’t like that individual comments show up as boosts, and on one of the three mastodon apps I’ve been trying (lol) it doesn’t show what the comment is replying to

  • echo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Is this like some generational thing where people are used to logging in to so many things with their google account that they hate making new accounts? Like sure you can interact with lemmy from mastodon, but the UIs are so different that it’s an awful experience, so I don’t know why you would actually want to do that.

  • ntzm [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’d like to be able to use the same account for Lemmy / PixelFed / Mastodon with the native UIs for each. Something that will hopefully be possible in the future!