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Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".
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I think Lemmy has it easier than Mastodon.
The bird app is mostly about following specific individuals, so the masses will go the where said individuals go.
The R app is all about communities and topics, so people will be more inclined to try it out. Personally I couldn't care less about who or how many people use Lemmy, as long as I got my Zelda memes.
Where do I go for the Zelda memes?
Strongly agree. Mastodon is alright and I use it a little, but the twitter-type format never really worked for me. I feel like when I have to follow individual people I usually end up either following no one or being forced to follow people who post things that interest me sometimes but a lot of the time post things that really don't. Following particular topics or threads just seems much more natural to me; I can look at exactly what interests me and nothing more.
Interesting people are not interesting all of the time, and following people usually just results in your feed loading up with complaints, gossip and drama.
I want to talk about things and ideas, not people.
Yeah the twitter style of social media has always confused me, I feel like there's much more community and fun here than mastodon but I use both
I have tried to go back to Mastodon, but I have not found an instance that makes me care enough.
Another Reddit refugee here: lemmy makes much more sense to my brain than mastodon ever did. So far, this has huge promise.
For me the decentralized nature of Lemmy / Kbin, (the only two reddit clones i know right now), is what’s really bringing me in.
I’ve been on Reddit for over a decade and seen communities completely close and go private because either a lack of moderation or infestation of bots. With how Lemmy and Kbin are set up, if one group of people don’t agree with another, they can set up shop on a different server.
This really gives users power over communities instead of having to do different naming such as r/animemes vs r/goodanimemes.
Reddit to me felt like I'd found a home. My score shot up into the thousands and I felt it was somewhere that was mine. I was on Twitter but never got into it, left when the orange babboon was allowed back on, and don't miss it.
It really sucks. Using a service run by a bad actor is tantamount to supporting and condoning the actions and viewpoints of those people, even though people don't actually think that way.
Anyways, I did feel like Reddit was something special, even with all the dumb changes. I am hope Lemmy becomes a new, better home for you.
Micro blogging like Mastodon I like more for following the personalities. I don't have a big attention seeking personality so I do not get a lot of followers on that type of social media. I am more of a reply guy so Lemmy style content aggregator with comments I am able to participate more in.
@DidacticDumbass reading (and commenting) this from mastodon and I should say: great!
Use the experience you like better!
I never to figure out how to navigate the fediverse from here!
High Five from across the 'verse!
@DidacticDumbass just a late response as this just appeared in my time line: https://youtu.be/SXUDs0ee_w0
Yes! I keep hearing about how people post from across platforms, but I finally see an example of how to do it. Nice!
Well yeah, Lemmy is to Reddit what Mastodon is to Twitter. Never cared for Twitter pre or post-Elon.
Mastodon is WAY better if you follow tags. that said, I am very optimistic of Lemmy, it just needs a quality app.