As I understand it, Lemmy does not have that capability yet and is one of the distinguishing factors between Lemmy and Kbin which allows mastodon account following. You can see mastodon content, just can't follow. (I believe)
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I'm still not entirely sure what kbin is. Is there a mobile app for it?
Kbin is a parallel project to Lemmy in the Fediverse, one which launched some months ago. Lemmy has been around a couple of years. Both Kbin and Lemmy structure content similarly to reddit's subreddit topics, where Kbin calls them "magazines" and Lemmy calls them "communities." Topic threads are nested chains of comments and replies with inline media and a 10k character limit. Instances of Kbin and Lemmy can and do interact, with users from either community participating transparently in posts and discussions.
In a technical sense, Kbin is implemented in PHP, where Lemmy is implemented in Rust.
Kbin is also able to interact more closely with Mastodon instances, users and content. With an account on a Kbin instance, you can follow, boost and reduce Mastodon content, in addition to up voting or down voting it.
Kbin also natively displays a user reputation score which is similar to reddit karma, as the net value of boosts less reduces. Up and down votes are (seemingly) not tracked in the aggregate. Lemmy does not expose these stats in the default UI, though there are API endpoints that return this dats
A final distinction (at least that I know about) is that Lemmy exposes an API for 3rd party access and supporting 3rd party apps. Kbin does not yet have a pu loc API, though I understand that one is under development and is currently under review.
So to answer your question: no, i don't believe there are no apps for Kbin yet, but app developers have indicated their intent to support Kbin when it is more mature.
You've basically gotten your answer from the other comments, but you happened to pick the one fediverse platform that doesn't really federate well. Lemmy (I believe by design) only federates with kbin and that's about it. Kbin on the other hand federates with both Lemmy and mastodon/firefish (formerly Calckey).
And just a note, with the activitypub protocol, all platforms have the option to federate with every other activitypub platform, but not all choose to, and not everything at that. So while you can follow Mastodon/firefish from, say, Pixelfed, it'll only populate the photos, not the text only posts.
If you really want to follow Masto/firefish, you'd be better off with kbin as I don't believe Lemmy has that on their roadmap. Unfortunately, there isn't a migration option yet, so you'd have to refollow the same communities all over again from kbin.
I really appreciate the reply. I think I'm going to stick with Lemmy for now, since it has a mobile app I enjoy, and I'm mobile the vast majority of the time. I'll just also make a mastodon, and follow the other things on there. Maybe when Kbin gets a mobile app I'll consider switching.
I'm seriously in awe of how people act on this side of things. A dozen replies, none of them hostile. I never got that on the other site! Lol.