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thomasshikari@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• lemming@anarchist.nexus ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  according to https://piefed.zip/c/fedigrow/p/1122722/growth-of-the-fediverse-20260222 it’s the most popular Fediverse platform by far.

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  • hector@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Too bad it’s not interoperable with lemmy. It would be cool if their accounts could see a link or crosspost to a post here, pop over and read it from their interface, comment, whatever.

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    • DakRalter@thelemmy.club ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m not sure if this is sarcasm, but in case it’s not, you very much can read and post to Lemmy via a mastodon account.

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      • hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I haven’t seen any crossover and I’ve been on here half of the winter.

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    • Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mastodon users can take part in Lemmy discussions and subscribe to Lemmy communities. To post in a Lemmy community simply mention the Lemmy community (@LemmyCommunity@LemmyInstance.tld) in a Mastodon post. The first paragraph of the Mastodon post will display in Lemmy as the title, the rest will be the text body. Hashtags won’t be displayed in Lemmy.

      joinfediverse.wiki/Lemmy

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• DakRalter@thelemmy.club ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, I have two active accounts. The autistic and neurodivergent communities there are great.

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  • thomasshikari@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh wow. That’s great to hear! I have, since commenting, set up an account myself. App seems a little bit buggy but, I don’t plan on being on it a lot. I appreciate the interesting feedback from you and the others who took the time to reply.

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    • DakRalter@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The only issue I have with mastodon is the federation gets a bit janky (so does Lemmy tbh) but it’s more noticeable on mastodon. My main account is on autistics.life, which is federated with most instances except threads and the maga types, but very often I can’t see images on mastodon.social posts via my main account. In fact I can’t even see a lot of my older mastodon.social posts via my main account without viewing the post via my alt account and then account switching.

      I’ve seen people say to avoid using mastodon.social as your main account.

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      • thomasshikari@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I never really even thought to research that much. I scanned the different instances. I joined into privacysafe.social - it seemed fine. Being that I have only been on it for a few hours and have only followed 9 accounts, I can’t say I’ve noticed many issues regarding my feed at this point. Although I wish I could organize my feed by newest first. It doesn’t seem to be that way by default. I have just had a couple minor bugs with profile pages loading strangely.

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• oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  do people still use Mastodon?

  Yes. Every single day, we see hundreds, if not thousands of posts.

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• tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Scientists and mathematicians do. The rest will follow when bluesky’s monetisation strategy becomes.too unbearable

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• hector@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I briefly tried mastadon. I don’t like the format, it’s a twitter basically, the federation is a plus, but the entire thing is a popularity contest. Almost all engagement is driven by those with large follower counts, 99 percent of posts are seen by almost no one.

  Which is ok if you want to build a following, but for your everyday user, reddit or lemmy is more egalitarian, your posts, and your comments, can be considered on their own merit regardless of your follower count.

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  • Noja@sopuli.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    You need to use hashtags on mastodon, otherwise nobody will be able to find you!

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• enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  gotta find loads of interesting accounts & hashtags, to basically tailor your feed manually, then it can feel very lively. I follow 500 accounts and it has given pretty unique feed compared to bluesky.

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• UncleArthur@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I do, but almost no-one else I’d want to follow does, which makes it feel pointless at the moment. Quite a few ‘celebrities’ (for want of a better word) seem to have dormant accounts. One of the few people I know who is posting regularly is Bernie Sanders.

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• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yea, but it’s growth is limited. People seem incapable of using a platform if there isn’t an algorithm telling them what to look at.

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• Naich@lemmings.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I love it. There are very few arseholes on it.

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