I’m pretty new to the whole Lemmy thing, but I figured I’d ask peoples’ opinions on whether it’s worth it to get into Mastodon too now that I’m officially a member of the Fediverse.
Is it active? Is it worth it? Have you had good experiences there?
Mastodon has been active for years, and since the twitter implosion, it is just as lively there as twitter ever was. Just more polite. I got the impression that we left all the trolls back on the birdsite, so mastodon is much nicer in tone.
There are several sites that can help you find your twitter-friends on mastodon based on if they have their username in their profile. Also, make new friends from across the fediverse!
There are a number of companies, newspapers, clubs, government agencies from different countries already on there, and also active. (I mostly know of the german ones, where even regional government hopped on there. They’re even running their own instance.)
There are about a million instances now, so I’d recommend joining not a big one, but one that is thematically close to you. You will still be able to reach all (most) of the others, but the local timeline will be interesting. :)
Mastodon is substantially more active than Lemmy thus far. It’s a different type of medium to Lemmy, so what you want to use is up to you.
Personally I use both, but just like I was spending much more time on reddit than twitter, I’d like to spend more time on Lemmy than Mastodon. I have also found Lemmy a little more intuitive to use initially, so it might be worth spending a couple weeks getting used to how the fediverse works before jumping into Mastodon.
I find it very active, once you follow a few active accounts. People boost interesting stuff into your timeline, you can follow hashtags directly, and on smaller thematic instances the local timeline is a great place too, so there is plenty of ways to get a nice active feed.
Mastodon is very active after you start following enough people and hashtags to populate your feed. It’s a bit rough to get started though: no algorithm means no content (or very random content in the local/federated feeds) until you build it up for yourself. But once you hit critical mass, I’ve found it a much nicer experience than I ever got on Twitter.
I run into the issue of people randomly using hashtags. For example, I follow #reddit, but then all I see is porn. And if I search for, say, MKBHD, then I see at least two dozen of them. Some are “legit” retweeting bots, others are just impersonators. I’ve been trying to use Mastodon since a couple months back but I never really got into it. We need more persons of significance and media outlets to join. I am disappointed that, after NPR quit twitter, they don’t have at least some kind of presence on Mastodon.
Never used twitter, now use mastodon, just makes more sense to me. Find an instance where you like the content being posted locally, that’s the key, otherwise I would imagine you kinda have to DIY
