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Can I follow mastodon accounts in Lemmy?

I thought we were all one big federated family but I don't have a deep knowledge of how it all works. I'd like to follow accounts like lowqualityfacts and Georgetakei but I can't seem to find them by searching.

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  • From Lemmy you can see the accounts, but usually not their content (see note below). @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social
    @georgetakei@universeodon.com

    Interaction between Lemmy and Mastodon doesn't work well because the two services structure their content differently. Lemmy is community based and Mastodon is user based. Lemmy doesn't have a mechanism to follow an individual user, and Mastodon doesn't have an analog to communities (afaik).

    (Note: In the case of these two accounts, some of their toots are visible because they have been pulled into the !tails@lemmon.website community as part of an experiment to bridge Lemmy and Mastodon.)

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