Anbalsilfer @ Anbalsilfer @sopuli.xyz

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We very often see the same username created across many instances

Guilty as charged. I'll say though, there are several legitimate reasons why one might want to do this. I personally use it as a substitute for Reddit's multireddit feature, by grouping community subscriptions across different instances by theme. As long as users use the same username across instances I don't think this practice should be automatically regarded as an attempt to sockpuppet. It that was the goal, the accounts would definitely not be using the same username across all the instances.

Thanks for that input, that's very cool that those relays exist. I have to apologize anyway though because I apparently was pretty confused when I made the original post, because on Lemmy you can't directly follow other Lemmy users at all, whether they're on Mastodon or Lemmy.

Something like what I envisioned might still be workable, but it would take a bit more effort and savvy. It would probably require a Mastodon hashtag bot as well as a dedicated Lemmy community for each tag for the bot to post into. See my edited OP.

When you search on a mastodon instance, some of the hits will be users. You can narrow down the search to show only those by explicitly specifying so. A segment of those users often look weird because they have no name at all and always share the standard lemmy default icon as profile picture. Like this:

Those are (usually) non-Lemmy Fediverse users, most of which are on Mastodon. You can click on them to see the profile and from that you should be able to follow them.