old, stupid
you can do it. you just need to open the magnifying glass for Search and paste in the address for the mastodon account… same as subbing to a remote magazine.
if you search for someone youre already following, or click ‘following’ under your profile and click the remote user you will see their posts.
here is George Tekei’s feed who is on universeodon
you can follow users on mastodon on mbin.
here is a screen of me searching for and following a mastodon account: 
i disagree.lemmy absolutely is a forum (subject-based threaded discussion). mastodon absolutely is not.
are there jerks in the fediverse? yep. many bad actors.
many server ops will defed known nonreciprocal servers. ‘scrapers’
they are different server platforms using the same protocol for different purposes. mastodon == federating twitter, ie ‘old man shouts into the cloud’. lemmy == federating reddit, ie threaded discussions.
there are so many perfectly good non-federating server products as to make this question moot. lemmy is the wrong platform for a stand-alone environment.
they do federate with others though… so not stand-alone as op is describing
no. its the wrong tool for that job.
there are already dozens of good stand alone forum products. there would be no need to use a purposefully federating platform where half the code is put to federation. silly.
bluesky is neither federating nor decentralized. the bigger it gets, the more unlikely they every implement those features
its just twitter with forums run/controlled by a single corporate board.
twitter/mastodon is just an old man shouting into the cloud (single to many). the discussion is very limited in scope. forums (many to many) are much more intensive due to the volume of human activity and its nested interactions with said data.
even if you just look at the biggest players thats dozens of servers with 100k users all upvoting/replying/moderating and your instance needs to process that if you want a decent interaction.
threaded-discussion server products require far more resources than a simple mastodon, twitter like server. if you want to federate with the threadiverse its going to be resource intensive.
yep. i use mbin on my instance, so i have access to both sides of the fediverse unlike lemmy.
the threadiverse is group discussion. the twitterverse is ‘soapbox’, or ‘old man shouts into the void’
im confused. is it a ghost town, or is it full of people giving him instant ‘shit’?
yep, its complete possible, though i dont use it for very many people… mostly george tekei
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