I believe the current state is:
- Mastodon users can participate on Lemmy
- Lemmy users cannot follow Mastodon users
So you may see comments or posts from Mastodon users who have posted to Lemmy, but if you want to follow Mastodon users you’ll need a Mastodon account.
There is a middle ground. Mbin allows you to participate on both Lemmy and Mastodon.
It is kind of insane that most of the examples are of 60 year olds challenging the 75 year olds.
One of the young ones is in their 50s, and one example is of an early 70s challenging a later 70s.
Only one in the whole lot I would think of as “young” (35).