So I’ve been starting to look further into the Fediverse and using it a lot more than any other part of the internet at this point. I wanna know the reasons why people might prefer Lemmy or Mastodon, I have both but seem to lean towards Lemmy for some reason, but not sure why maybe it’s the simple design and you can find topics a little easier or it might be because I prefer the idea of Reddit over twitter.
Why do you prefer Lemmy? (or mastodon?)
the whole idea of mastodon and twitter is alien to me. Why should I prioritise people over the content they make? Like here you can rate an interesting post and it would likely pop up in your feed. In twitter I just rely on particular content makers , hoping they come up with something worthwhile. No concrete subjects, only random musings
In Mastodon you can not only follow people but also hashtags. And there are accounts that exist to ‘retweet’ posts related to a topic, so basically curation.
I never really understood it myself. But from what I’ve heard from people who are (or rather were) regular Twitter users, they like to follow celebrities or specific journalists (people who have actual interesting things to say). Those people are often not on Mastodon, though.
People are complex with many different thoughts and interests. It is unlikely you are interested in all the different things someone else is. Thus it doesn’t make sense to follow people. Topics, everyone has their own list they are interested in, so follow those topics and you will meet the people also interested in it.
Yeah, same for me. I had both Reddit and Twitter, but the latter annoyed the hell out of me after some months so I deleted it years ago. Reddit and the topic centered approach did fit my needs and interests way better. Now there’s kbin and I’m equally happy.
That makes sense, yeah I think in the end I prefer using a community aspect than a person based one.