Yes, with some asterisks. Mastodon users see communities as users. for example, they see this community as the @Mastodon@lemmy.ml user. If they tag that user in the toot, then the first line of their toot is the title, second line the link, everything after that is the body. Then it'll show up in that community as a normal post.

Can we search their hashtags somehow?

No. If you want both link aggregator and microblog functionality, use Kbin. It offers both in one.

Can they comment on this post from a Mastodon client even though I posted it from wefwef while logged in at lemmy.world?

Yes, as long as they're following the community "user" and see the post. They can then reply to that post, which shows up here as a comment.

[–] toasteranimation@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for this. Some have said lemmy might get kbin-like features eventually. Could link aggregation like we’re discussing be one of them?

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm assuming you mean Lemmy getting microblog functionality (this is a link aggregator). I don't think so? It's not on the roadmap, I've not seen any feature requests like that on the github, and people don't seem terribly interested in writing the code for that.

I personally don't care about microblogs. Never used twitter or mastodon, I'm much more interested in following topics than people.

[–] toasteranimation@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree with you about microblogs in general. I was just thinking it would be ideal to be able to easily pop in on a hashtag just like a ‘community’ (from right here in wefwef) to be able to get to information that’s being disseminated over there. I expect there to be a lot of quality content on the Mastodon side, but I could be fooling myself.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can always have a peek yourself if you want to. If you're interested in Mastodon stuff, why not make an account yourself?

Also, lol, looks like the bean hype has spread to Mastodon

[–] toasteranimation@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’ll have to be my next step. I started making a mastodon account an hour or two ago, but then stopped thinking maybe I didn’t have to, and could somehow get all the same functionality from a lemmy client. I’d like one central app for all this. I’ll head over there and dive in

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you want a one-stop shop for both link aggregation and microblogging, then once again, please look at Kbin. They have that as an explicit goal.

[–] toasteranimation@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I’ll do it. Thanks again