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.
This has been long discussed and deemed part of a problem space that Lemmy isn’t meant to solve. So probably never.
But there are Fediverse apps like Friendica or Mbin that support both, and it lookes like Pixelfed is going to sooner or later support the reverse, i.e. subscribing to Lemmy based groups.
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.
pixelfed also have hashtags, maybe we can map an hashtag to a lemmy community.
That’s similar to want #Mbin does.
So when is Lemmy going to support following users? Seems like a major missing feature to me.
This has been long discussed and deemed part of a problem space that Lemmy isn’t meant to solve. So probably never.
But there are Fediverse apps like Friendica or Mbin that support both, and it lookes like Pixelfed is going to sooner or later support the reverse, i.e. subscribing to Lemmy based groups.
i know some federated weather service that is displayed as a user on lemmy.