I had been spending quite some time on mastodon, but lately realized that it just isn’t for me.

Mastodon is very focused on individuals, not as much on content. I’m not saying there isn’t a need for mastodon, and I’m happy it’s there, but my main use case is contacting (semi) public figures or software-support there, which happens rarely. Curating a feed that is both interesting to me and “high quality” without being overrun doesn’t seem feasible.

Lemmy is much more focused on content. You don’t follow people, you follow topics or interests and get the things surfaced that the most people in that interest group appreciate. The discussions work much better (Twitter-like reply’s are just one huge bag of trash). It also doesn’t matter who the people are behind the content, as long as it’s interesting it will find an audience.

Just something that I’ve been thinking about. Any thoughts on this?

  • @flameguy21@lemm.eeEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    Sure, they’re two different sites, but the smaller user base makes Mastodon harder to enjoy for most people since the people they know aren’t using it. That’s not an issue for Lemmy because no one cares about the specific users, they just want the content and discussion. I just think it’s kinda interesting how the fediverse approach works to different degrees for different kinds of sites.