How do you do this? I’ve seen others mention it but I’m confused on how you actually do it.
Not just linking to Mastodon, but seeing the Mastodon post from PieFed/Lemmy and being able to cross comment.
What do you mean?
Any post, on any service, is technically accessible on any other instance, running any service. Actual implementation, varies.
Unless you run into it in the feed, the way to find a given post is to enter the original instance url for it into search on the instance from which you want to interact with it.
To upvote this post, for example, even from an instance that it hasn’t federated to, I can enter the url to this post on its host instance into search, and the other instance will fetch the post, allowing me to vote and/or comment.
Same goes for mastodon toots. Get the url, put into search, upvote, comment, whatever.
ccunning@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve seen a piefed user’s posts show up in my mastodon feed. Near as I can tell, after asking them, it wasn’t intentional on their part, but they used a hashtag in their piefed post that I was subscribed to on mastodon and that was what caused it to get pulled in.
It was especially confusing at first because neither my mastodon client nor my Lemmy/piefed client displayed the hashtag.
I don’t think this answered your question but thought you might find the info useful.
squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Lemmy sends out the community name as a hashtag to Mastodon, so this post is tagged #nostupidquestions. The hashtag isn’t visible, but the post shows up in the tag timeline nonetheless.
ccunning@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s really helpful to know.
It wasn’t the case in my situation though.
The post was in /c/historyruins@piefed.social and the hashtag I follow is #thailand.
justdaveisfine@piefed.social 1 day ago
Oh most definitely, here’s this post on Mastodon:
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Still unsure of how to do the reverse though.
justdaveisfine@piefed.social 1 day ago
Ok this ‘appears’ to work. Each community is viewable as a group in Mastodon, so you can tag it as you post and this creates a PieFed/Lemmy post.
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