Up until now our main means of communication outside the site during e.g. downtime has been via our Twitter account. Given 
's innovative destruction of Twitter as a serious or reliable platform, we'll be using a Mastodon account going forward: @hexbear@matapacos.dog.
If you're on Mastodon already, please give us a follow! And if you're not, you should sign up! https://toots.matapacos.dog is an instance hosted by our very own @PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net. See you on Mastodon folks 😎
Is it possible to see updates from a hexbear account now that we're federated?
For now, Mastodon -> Lemmy Federation is basically just one way. Masto accounts can follow Lemmy users and communities with comments and posts, but all Lemmy users can do is interact with those. There don't seem to be plans to change that (unlike Kbin, which does link aggregator and microblogger on the same Fedi platform).
Given that it's mostly used for communicating about active site outages, this doesn't seem that important anyhow, but yeah @jack is correct. Would be neat in principle though, if not for this specific acct.
We're supposed to be able to, but it only seems to be working sporadically.