It’s a federated Twitter alternative. It’s existed for a while - the initial release was in 2016, but obviously with all the Musk-related nonsense in the past few years, it’s grown a lot.
I would be so hyped to see a true dual Lemmy mastodon service that fully allows you to browse and post to both Lemmy and mastodon style feeds. Currently even kbin is really more focused on the Lemmy / piefed end and the microblogging function still requires the posts to be under a magazine meaning masto posts aren’t really browseable and they’re not really fully interact able from both ends. I feel like a service fully compatible with both formats would give a broader reach that would really allow fedi to grow. You’d be able interact with like half of fedi at the same time which would make it feel so much bigger and more comparable in scope to traditional social media.
Patnou@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Forgive my ignorance but what is a Mastodon? I only ever heard it to be used as a animal
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s a federated Twitter alternative. It’s existed for a while - the initial release was in 2016, but obviously with all the Musk-related nonsense in the past few years, it’s grown a lot.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
It’s a federated service like Lemmy, but built to be a Twitter clone instead of reddit.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I would be so hyped to see a true dual Lemmy mastodon service that fully allows you to browse and post to both Lemmy and mastodon style feeds. Currently even kbin is really more focused on the Lemmy / piefed end and the microblogging function still requires the posts to be under a magazine meaning masto posts aren’t really browseable and they’re not really fully interact able from both ends. I feel like a service fully compatible with both formats would give a broader reach that would really allow fedi to grow. You’d be able interact with like half of fedi at the same time which would make it feel so much bigger and more comparable in scope to traditional social media.
paequ2@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
It’s here: mastodon.sdf.org/@bdonvr/116041034741784911