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As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch(techcrunch.com)

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KrisND@lemmy.world
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Is there a need to have a lemmy and Mastodon?

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bamboo@lemm.ee
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Theoretically they’re somewhat interoperable but if you plan on using both you’ll probably have a better experience having an account on an instance of each service.

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KrisND@lemmy.world
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Yeah, I think that’s what I’m gonna do. I wanna try it out, I haven’t used any popular social network in years though.

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ICE_WALRUS@lemmy.world
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From what I heard mastodon is formatted more like twitter whereas lemmy is more like reddit.

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ultrasquid@lemm.ee
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You could use only one, but browsing lemmy through mastodon (and vice versa) isn’t a great experience, so its recommended to have an account on both.

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Jilanico@lemmy.world
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If you want just one account to experience both, use kbin.

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KrisND@lemmy.world
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I’m gonna give that a try and see, before I spend time making an account. Thanks for the recommendation!

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Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works
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Only technically true. The two don’t work super well together, Mastodon is a better frontend if you’re looking for a microbloggingn experience.

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Jilanico@lemmy.world
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How do you follow a mastodon account from lemmy?

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gila@lemmy.world
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My understanding is that isn’t correct - in Lemmy you currently can follow Mastodon communities, but not users (following users on any fediverse platform including Lemmy itself just isn’t a part of Lemmy yet). I believe it’s planned to be implemented, but this is one thing differentiating Lemmy and Kbin - you can currently follow Mastodon users in Kbin, and in that case I think it’s just the same way you’d follow another Kbin user. To find their user page it would just be kbin.social/u/user@their.mastodon.instance instead of kbin.social/u/user, so I assume it would be similar for Lemmy once implemented

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