Comment on Rq: How to Mastodon
catloaf@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You’re using a Mastodon app to access Lemmy? Yeah, it probably doesn’t support Lemmy’s tree comments. Mastodon is designed to be more like Twitter. If you want to use Lemmy, use a Lemmy client.
mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Sorry, not a native speaker.
Today I dipped into mastodon. I thought an app would aid explorability, it didn’t.
I couldn’t downvote - even after registration - so I made this post. Within lemmy I can disagree with a downvote if I strongly do so.
So I am serious if such platforms should only be read but engaged with. Because it was the most hostile website/app interaction I encountered since I am on the internet.
catloaf@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Oh, so you were using a Mastodon app to post to Mastodon, and just comparing it to your experience with Lemmy. Yeah, what you experienced is the desired experience, like Twitter. All short-form content, a lot more posting than reading.
tamlyn@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
While Mastodon, Lemmy, Misskey and a lot other software plattforms are connected in the Fediverse. You should be aware, that different software work different on the Fediverse. Mastodon is designed liker Twitter/X, to be a Plattform posint short messages or news. Lemmy is more designed like a forum, not as user based as Mastodon, more in communities. There is a connection between a lot different Software Platforms on the Fediverse, but not every feature is on every plattform. So you are not able to downvote a Lemmy post from Mastodon. You have the option to interact with Lemmy posts with a Mastodon account and it’s a valid way to do it, but for the full experience on all Plattform, you should make yourself an account on every Plattform that is important for you.
I have never used the Mastodon app, i think a lot 3rd Party apps are better on Mastodon, so i don’t know how it looks, but Mastodon has, or had, a weird form in showing commet trees in my opinion.
mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
That’s something (interesting) to unpack but wouldn’t belong here. Anyhow for the sake of my personal benefit I proceed to comment.
You answered everyting per se. So thanks.
Makes sense: Mastodon does not have downvotes, apparently. But:
Is this also valid the other way around? Are there peer-reviewed documents I can inspect to learn how the fediverse can act between another? I did not look into the protocol since standards wouldn’t address my higher level view I suppose.
I downloaded the fediverse app prior but it didn’t allow sorting either. Which is why I made the above assumption.
The mastodon app appears to be a very good piece of software; Better then the former.
The app doesn’t allow opening links from any source but it appears to me that they do not want to provide a wildcard intent (android-API specifica) so that to be mentioned when tapping any link. A thing which have to be implemented at build time and would possibly still leak private instance domains. It looks carefully engineered.
tamlyn@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
HKayn@dormi.zone 7 months ago
Some instances choose to disable downvotes. If you downvote a comment that originates from one of those instances, it will have no effect outside of your home instance.
mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
It is already hard to discover appropriate instances to pick from but didn’t spot any aggregator which prompts this instance property. If you can aid this I may reconsider using mastodon!