with the way twitter is going, I don’t give it much longer to live so we’re diversifying our social media presence just in case.
I use Arch btw UuU
You got a new follower comrade
Thanks! This noob’s got some reading material.
What’s the difference between Mastodon and Lemmy? They seem the same to me
Mastodon and Lemmy are both built on top of the same protocol: ActivityPub. That said, they provide a substantially different user interface. Mastodon is focused on microblogging (basically, a Twitter clone), where you follow individual users and boost (retweet) or like posts. Lemmy is focused on communities (basically, a Reddit clone), where instead of subscribing to users, you subscribe to communities. There is some interoperability, but it kind of like a Spanish person trying to speak to a Portuguese person at this point.
Long story short, even though the goal is for all content to be accessible regardless of which platform you are using, there is a lot of content that can only be understood if you are using the correct one.
Oh I see! Though if Mastodon is going to be Twitter 2 then maybe it’s for the best that it isn’t compatible with Lemmy anymore…
And they actually federate with each other! Trying to figure out how to federate prolewiki’s mastodon with lemmygrad 🤔
But lemmy is more like reddit (link aggregator) and mastodon is more like twitter (micro-blogging platform). Though we get 2000 characters on mastodon to write a “toot” with, which is a lot and almost as much as you can have on Lemmy. The lines keep getting blurred and I think at this point people associate more with the UI/UX than the tech.
Although the main difference I think is on lemmy you follow communities, and on mastodon you follow individual accounts.
Trying to figure out how to federate prolewiki’s mastodon with lemmygrad
Just don’t follow yourself! Otherwise it’ll be like when you go into the past and talk to your younger self. You’ll create a space-time paradox and then we’re all doomed. Unless… hear me out… unless creating that paradox leaves us all trapped in the prolewiki universe where facts are facts and liberal facts are factored out. Could be worth the risk.
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