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How do I access Beehaw or Lemmy from Mastodon? (self.support)

submitted 2 years ago by kinttach to c/support

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I've heard that federation is broken right now on Beehaw. When it comes back, will I be able to access Beehaw from Mastodon? How would I do that?

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[–] tezoatlipoca@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Like here it is in Elk (my masto instance is mas.to)

[–] kinttach 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That was easier than I expected. On the Mastodon instance that I use, no previous posts show up (I tried a few communities on other servers). I believe that’s because no one has previously subscribed from that server, so they weren’t federated yet. I’ll watch them over the next few hours.

[–] tezoatlipoca@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

No actually its because msgs "boosted" by the community will only be sent to your inbox post-follow, if that makes sense. For the same reason when you search for and sub to a community on one Lemmy instance to a comm. on another, it only gets the last few posts; but your instance will get all the ones that come after.

Essentially following a lemmy community is like a magazine subscription; you don't get all the previous ones retroactively, but you get all the ones that come after you subscribe/follow.