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Microsoft DevBlogs now federated
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this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2024
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The blog does not talk to Lemmy instances, nor Lemmy instances talk to the blog. The blog does not implement ActivityPub. Lemmy comments of the articles do not show up on the blog. You can follow the bot, and it definitely makes the content available, but it doesn't fit most people's understanding of "federated". Twitter doesn't federate with Mastodon, even if there are bots that copy Twitter content onto Mastodon.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great initiative. But I think calling it federation is misleading.
Does anything? I'm genuinely asking. I know how to follow other accounts from Mastodon or Pixelfed - I don't think there's any way to follow another account from my Lemmy account? As far as I'm aware that functionality doesn't exist in the first place anywhere, but happy to be told otherwise.
It does - I can follow it from Mastodon (or Pixelfed, or...). It's using the Wordpress ActivityPub plug-in (doesn't support Lemmy, but as per my previous comment I'm not sure that anything does).
Look at where my account is from in this comment
It's also possible to ping Mastodon users to bring them into Lemmy discussions. @msftdevblogs