Discussion about Lemmy/pixelfed bridges: https://lemmy.world/post/24306481
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025
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A bridge isn't really necessary. Both Lemmy and Pixelfed use the same communication protocol. Lemmy just doesn't let you follow users, and PixelFed is a user-based, rather than group-based, program.
If you want to follow both groups and users, you should just use a site that's running software that supports that. Mbin, or nodeBB, or something.
So when is Lemmy going to support following users? Seems like a major missing feature to me.
you can already follow other users (i.e. watch their activity) via rss feeds. For example your accounts feed is https://slrpnk.net/feeds/u/LibertyLizard.xml?sort=New
I can paste that link into my rss reader (which is an external program or website), subscribing to your accounts feed, and stay updated about your activities that way.
Interesting. Is there a way to set this up so I could follow a user on pixelfed here on Lemmy for example?
And would you see just my posts or also a bunch of contextless comments? The latter might not be too useful.