You can't follow accounts on lemmy, afaik
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2024
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And I am glad for that, actually.
From Lemmy you can see the accounts, but usually not their content (see note below).
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social
@georgetakei@universeodon.com
Interaction between Lemmy and Mastodon doesn't work well because the two services structure their content differently. Lemmy is community based and Mastodon is user based. Lemmy doesn't have a mechanism to follow an individual user, and Mastodon doesn't have an analog to communities (afaik).
(Note: In the case of these two accounts, some of their toots are visible because they have been pulled into the !tails@lemmon.website community as part of an experiment to bridge Lemmy and Mastodon.)
I wish you could, but for all intents and purposes Lemmy and Mastodon aren't part of the same fediverse. Kbin/Mbin let you follow accounts, and I think !tails@lemmon.website automatically turns toots from some accounts (including Takei's) into Lemmy posts.
Kbin/mbin should allow it.