My experience with the Fediverse has only been through Mastodon, through which I struggled to find a community I really gelled with. Either it was supper overwhelming with meme posts or NSFW, or it was too chill to the point of nothing. Or, it was hyperfocused like FOSS/Linux and became uninteresting after awhile. May try again, but I think I will explore the other fedisites like Plemora or Calckey to see if I like it better.
I love the pace of a forum. I grew up primarily with GameFAQS and some lucid dreaming forum, and honestly it was very formative in teaching me how to write and use critical thinking skills, as well as how to respond to a variety of temperaments. I stopped participating in online forums awhile ago, and while I loved Reddit as a resource, I never felt inspired to participate. In the same way, there are an incredible number of forums dedicated to a certain topic, and are extremely valuable, it would be annoying to make an account for all the things I am interested in.
I like what lemmy is becoming. Glad to find system that makes interacting with people enjoyable.
So, how does the Fediverse work? Not the tech specs, but in use cases? I have a Mastodon account that I signed up for, but never really used. @[email protected] I can theoretically use it to view posts in a Lemmy instance. However, the interaction between Mastodon is quite different from Lemmy. Mastodon works for toots, but it didn’t seem to be a good interface for browsing the communities in a Lemmy instance. So, I created an account on this server.
Should we stick to just logging in to a single server? Is it bad manners to have separate accounts on different Fediverse instances?
reddit was great for discoverability. it centralized everything so you could find a group for even the most niche topics. Using Lemmy is almost going back to the days of having the a lot of different message board sites. One good feature of the Fediverse is that you only have to log in to one site, instead of needing a separate log in for each one. But will the federated system still fracture our communities? [email protected] is separate from [email protected] right? So, you would need to view and post to each one to see everything?