• HardTea@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m using the Thunder app to access my lemmy.world account. Is Mastodon also Lemmy? Can I browse lemmy.world and mastodon at the same time? I’m so new and vv confused.

    • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Not really.

      They’re both fediverse, but one is designed to follow communities, and the other is designed to follow people. A Mastodon user sees a community as a user, and can thus subscribe to it. There’s not really a way for a Lemmy user to do the inverse and subscribe to a user.

      If you want a platform that does both (can subscribe to both communities and users), check out Kbin.