Lol forgot to add - kbinauts like Derpy point and me and rakyat (on our kbin accounts) had been replying to monyet posts in the early days lagi. But federation still hinky, that's why I have alt here. Other masto account holders too I think.
may be due to the locked account thing mentioned in the profile. so, if you're not a follower, you can't dm, and I don't think lemmy allows you to follow individual users.
Locked account in terms of accepting followers automatically but you should be able to reply. Hold on let me check something... Aha! Federation lambat. @weecious@monyet.cc check back the monyet ori post: https://monyet.cc/post/53547 - their comment has been federated back here, so you can deffo reply to them :)
(next time also, if you see it in a federated location and wanna bring it back here to reply, and this should work, copy the comment ori url (always hosted on their own account) and paste in search bar. When fetched, you can reply :))
this is related to what I posted here, it's just that now we can do it for mastodon comments as well :-)
at least those comments replying to original posts in lemmy. it would be nice to be able to pull in arbitrary toots to reply to, now that would be interesting!