@lemmy I have account on mastodon.social (as you can see above). I can read Lemmy and write posts via my Mastodon frontend, but it has very limited functionality (ex. I can’t upvote posts or it is comfortable to read long threads). Is there a way to use Lemmy frontend without creating any Lemmy account with my Mastodon server backend?
Mastodon is a great way to follow folks on Lemmy, as Lemmy is focused more on communities around topics than individual contributors. The foil to that, then, is that individuals can be easily recognized as regular contributors within those communities – but only because you happen to see their usernames often enough, not because Lemmy is designed to follow them.
Because of these design choices, I like leveraging Mastodon to hone in on ICs who tend to post interesting content, and share it via my Mastodon network. Likewise, it can be fun to see toots from Mastodon referenced in the communities I follow here, as they help facilitate good discussion.
There are give and takes.