quick question but I’ve read that lemmy federates with both mastodon and peertube (I have checked and can find myself here: https://mastodon.social/@Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi but I am unable to see any users from mastodon or peertube.

Search failing on lemmy:
Screenshot of a search for "@torvalds@social.kernel.org" returning nothing

Same search on mastodon.social:
Screenshot of the same search successfully returning the user's profile

Is there something I’m doing wrong or has federation not been implemented both ways as of yet?

EDIT: minor formatting regarding images

  • Matt@netmonkey.techEnglish
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    2 years ago

    There’s no way for you to follow a Fediverse account from Lemmy, at this time; however, as you know, it does work the other way around.

    • Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyiOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      are there any plans for this? I had a quick look around the GH and I couldn’t really find anything conclusive.

      • Matt@netmonkey.techEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Sorry, I don’t know. 😕 There is a Lemmy-like project called kbin which has that ability, from what I’ve read others say, but it’s not as mature as Lemmy (which still has several rough edges). I don’t speak from experience though – I haven’t checked it out yet.