It is still not possible to follow someone on #Mastodon (or elsewhere) from #Lemmy or #Piefed, right?

It is still not possible to follow someone on #Mastodon (or elsewhere) from #Lemmy or #Piefed, right?

So no use of #activitypub either. Is that correct?

@pfefferle

@mikka@mstdn.social you don't follow people on Lemmy and Piefed, you follow communities.

You can follow people from Mbin and NodeBB.

All four of those softwares use ActivityPub.

@julian @mikka you can follow Lemmy and Piefed people from other places just fine tho! I follow accounts from my Mastodon account quite often

@liaizon @julian My question was about a different case. Just the other way round.

@julian My question was about a different case. Just the other way round.

Yes, and that is why I did not mention mbin.

@mikka @liaizon @julian you can follow a blog on lemmy (see @notiz.blog ) and following others using WordPress is an early beta and I have not tested to follow communites/groups, but we definitely plan to support that.

@pfefferle @liaizon @julian @notiz.blog Actually I wanted to know if it is possible to follow *from* lemmy/piefed > someone elsewhere. Because this is a necessitiy to federate anything from a WP-installation running activitypub (plugin) to fediverse.

@mikka@mstdn.social @pfefferle@mastodon.social the answer is yes.

WP federates out as a group actor which threadiverse software understands.

@julian @pfefferle Yes, but only if you have at least one follower on the targeted flavor of fedi.

@mikka@mstdn.social that's correct, this is how all software running AP works.

@julian Just not with lemmy/piefed, if you are not able to follow an individual (WP-blog in this case) residing out of the walled fedi garden.

Not sure about mbin. Couldn't test that yet, as I am still waiting for my registration...

@mikka @julian This is @notiz.blog viewed on lemmy.world. WP blogs are federated out as groups as you can see on the example of notiz.blog on the second picture.