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Integrate Mastodon in Friendica?
Dear @Friendica Support, looking at https://mexico-pensante.blog/admin/federation shows that #Mastodon seems to be a really popular service of the #Fediverse. Only today, I got two friendship requests.
How can I integrate Mastodon into my Friendica instance (post and fetch)?
Friendica (Mexico-Pensante.Blog) should be my primary platform.
Best, Robert
#fediverse #mastodon @Friendica Support
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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Mastodon is always pretty well integrated, not only you can already interact with Mastodon accounts and posts directly from your Friendica account, you can also use many Mastodon-compatible mobile apps directly with your Friendica account.
Robert Winkler
Robert Winkler  
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Thanks @Hypolite Petovan! how can I post directly to my mastodon.social account (and, ideally, also follow my account there)?
@Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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Why would you want to post on your mastodon.social account when you can interact with Mastodon accounts and posts directly with your Friendica account?

It’s like asking how you can post directly to your Mastodon account from another Mastodon account, it doesn’t make immediate sense to me.
Robert Winkler
Robert Winkler  
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@Hypolite Petovan Yes, maybe I'm thinking in a too complicated way. I'm not 40 anymore and grew up in the pre-286 decade. And the (a)'social' 'networks' I used before installing my Friendica server use different protocols. Thus: The conclusion is to follow my mastodon.social on Friendica and to follow my Friendica on mastodon.social? Or is this also redundant? Ideally, I just would add my mastodon account somewhere in Friendica.
@Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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If you want to post and receive the same content in both your Friendica account and your Mastodon accounts, then they are redundant and you can safely leave your Mastodon.social account behind as your Friendica account supersedes it in terms of capabilities. Not only can you interact with Mastodon contacts and posts natively from your Friendica account, you can also follow RSS accounts and interact with Diaspora users and posts.

The only things we don’t have at the moment compared to a Mastodon.social account are creating and participating in polls and blocking domains at the user-level (only node admins can do this).
xy@libranet.de
xy@libranet.de  
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@Robert Winkler search your account and add it / follow it. i do that, too with my accounts
@Robert Winkler
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