I don’t know if it uses that system, but NeoDB lets you sign in with a Mastodon account too. It’s also fully Mastodon compatible, so you can add it to a client and use it as a basic Mastodon/microblog account if you want. It uses (a modified version of?) Takahē on the backend, a project which sadly appears to have been abandoned.

In addition, you can interact with other services from one account, but not necessarily use them fully.

So as above ^^^ at least one account per service is advisable.

It runs off of RSS feeds. Here if you want to look/use as inspiration: https://github.com/chris-y/rsstolemmy I’m not sure if that’s the latest version but it should do the job.

I have one running in !beds@feddit.uk as otherwise there would be nothing in it other than the odd article I’d post manually. The idea is that I will remove it if the community grows enough that the bot is just adding noise. At the moment there’s minimal engagement, but I find it useful as I see the local news rather than looking for it elsewhere and having to post it.

It doesn’t have an app, how is it buggy?

I don’t think automatic crossposting is a good idea. However some way to “boost” Mastodon posts onto Lemmy would be good. Mbin has a way of boosting but can’t assign a magazine. Something like that may work though. Mastodon can already boost Lemmy posts.

There are a lot of people I follow who moved to Mastodon, that now appear to have moved to Bluesky (I’m seeing posts on there from people I know used to post on Mastodon).

I’m not sure why. If I move over it’ll be because everybody else is there. At the moment I’m not using it much.

I was going to put Bedfordshire in brackets next to that, but I forgot. I knew it could cause confusion!

• !imaginaryfairies@lemmings.world
• !yoursinclair@retrolemmy.com
• !britishcomedy@feddit.uk
• !beds@feddit.uk
• !raining@sh.itjust.works

I think the rest of my communities haven’t seen activity lately, so I’ll have to post in them first!

There’s also some sort of soft blocking option, which largely hides the instance AIUI but still gives the ability to follow users. This seems like a better option rather than completely defederating.

If Meta want to scrape your data they can do that anyway. All defederation does is stops you looking at their stuff (which, as you say, can be blocked at the user level anyway)

I don’t know. Mastodon already supports audio posts, how does that federate? Why can’t Threads do the same thing?

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