From news, to shitposting, to memes, to more shitposting, Lemmy feels vibrant, active, lighthearted, fun and even powerful. Mastodon feels like a fucking funeral.

  • null@slrpnk.net
    36·
    8 months ago

    Microblogging versus content aggregation with comments. Two different things that are technically similar enough to share a protocol.

    On Masto, it’s more about being a person saying something into the ether. Lemmy is more about adding content to communities, subscribing to the ones you like, and then talking about it there.

    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
      14·
      8 months ago

      This 100%>. It’s why Reddit is way more fun than Twitter. Twitter is like yelling into the void and sometimes the void yells back. It’s good for publishers and content creation, bad for real conversation. Reddit supports real threaded conversation with voting to highlight the good parts of the conversation.

      The other thing is interest following. Twitter you have to follow people, and a person may be posting on things you have interest in and other things you have no interest in. Reddit you follow subjects, and you see good content regardless of who posts it.

      Mastodon and Lemmy are just decentralized Twitter and Reddit.

    • bitdweller@programming.dev
      14·
      8 months ago

      And that’s why Reddit is still winning. It’s the only big social network that does that (aside from Lemmy). All the other big ones are people-centric (or business or whatever). It’s you subscribe to a person. On Reddit and Lemmy you subscribe to a topic.