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?
Two ways to liven up your Mastodon feed:
- You can follow hashtags (search for a hashtag and follow it) and it’ll show up in your main feed.
- You can find people to follow based on the people who you’re following are following using https://followgraph.vercel.app/
I am a heavy ex-Twitter user who left when the blue checks went wild. I have substituted it with Mastodon/Post/Spoutible. Yes, all three. Less than than half the people I followed are on any of them combined, but it still has some people I like to hear opinions from. I’ll never go back to Twitter, and it’s weird not seeing all the alt-right freaks on any of those other platforms. But really, it’s been good for me to not get into the useless arguments I used to inevitably fall into with those people.