This question is especially for people who have joined in the last week. Have you used other fediverse platforms or is this your first time really using one? What do you think of it so far? Are you aware that you can comment on Lemmy posts with a Mastodon account?
I’d messed around with Mastodon, but Twitter was never my thing so it didn’t really stick. Lemmy is the first Fediverse thing that will likely see a lot of use from me.
In the same boat, looking forward to seeing the interfaces develop a bit for Lemmy, I haven’t found many app alternatives
That’s my story as well. As a general note I’d like to add that following people is always a worse form for “social media” than following topics (subs, communities). I know you could technically just use hashtags, but that never worked for me.
How do I comment on posts with my mastodon account?
I also signed up to Mastodon, mostly to support the digitalcourage.social server, but probably won’t be using it a lot. I didn’t use Twitter, either, but Reddit. I will probably continue to use /r/flying and /r/synthesizer, as they are so niche that I cannot expect anything comparable here.
I’ll have to figure out how to post with Mastodon account on Lemmy.
I tried out mastodon once, but since I really didn’t spend much time on twitter in the first place, I really didn’t use it at all. But apart from that short endeavor, this is my first time.
well, i tried mastodon for a week but quickly lost interest because i never was interested in twitter-esque services to begin with. lemmy on the other hand is quite more my thing because of many funni forum posts and links
I have been on Mastodon for just over a year and am really enjoying the relaxed and polite atmosphere compared to the Birdsite
I was made aware of Lemmy a week ago and it has been a real eye opener. Prior to that, I had no interest in Reddit at all, mainly because I didn’t understand its purpose
It’s a first for me. I wanted to join Mastodon but didn’t know what instance to choose and was generally confused about how everything works so I didn’t create an account. With Lemmy it was different since I really wanted to join. So I took my time to figure everything out and it is way less complicated than I initially thought. But I get why it might seem confusing at first, especially subscribing to communities on different servers.
Back when the switch from Twitter to Mastodon was recommended I tried it but didn’t really understand how it worked, didn’t know how to get to the content I wanted and gave up. This is the first time after that
First time heard of the fediverse, even though I knew about mastodon. Lemmy made it Click for me. Overall the decentralized approach clicked and it just makes so much more sense than the current solutions
I tried mastadon and I’m still confused.
I tried friendica years ago as an alternative to Facebook, back when Facebook was still for connecting with friends and family. But since none of my friends were interested in it, I quickly lost interest myself.
I checked out Mastodon when Musk bought Twitter, even though I never actively used Twitter. I don’t use it as social media, I use it for news aggregation.
Lemmy is now the first Fediverse software I actively use and I really like it so far.
this is at least the first time I invested a significant amount of time in it.
But I used a couple of federated services before that are not part of “the fediverse” and I really like the idea. I used XMPP back in the day and I use Matrix from time to time. I just don’t have any friends who use it.
I have an account on mastodon for a while, but I never used it to be honest, just like I never used Twitter. Regarding Lemmy… That could actually be a different case
