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.
@ekZepp They’re sorta bridged in the sense that if you @ a lemmy community from other ActivityPub software it’ll post to the community. It’s the same protocol, though a different enough implementation that it acts a lot like a bridge. The first line acts as the title, then the rest of the post is the body.
TIL. Where is this stuff documented anyway?
It’s kind of the whole point of activitypub, so it would be on the front page of any software that implements it.
I guess mbin is halfway there in being a bridge? It lets you check both mastodon and lemmy posts
What would lemmy bridge to?
The other two monkes?
