I had been spending quite some time on mastodon, but lately realized that it just isn’t for me.
Mastodon is very focused on individuals, not as much on content. I’m not saying there isn’t a need for mastodon, and I’m happy it’s there, but my main use case is contacting (semi) public figures or software-support there, which happens rarely. Curating a feed that is both interesting to me and “high quality” without being overrun doesn’t seem feasible.
Lemmy is much more focused on content. You don’t follow people, you follow topics or interests and get the things surfaced that the most people in that interest group appreciate. The discussions work much better (Twitter-like reply’s are just one huge bag of trash). It also doesn’t matter who the people are behind the content, as long as it’s interesting it will find an audience.
Just something that I’ve been thinking about. Any thoughts on this?
These products aren’t new. Twitter is not the same as Reddit. Why do people think Mastodon and Lemmy are comparable? Also it feels like an unnecessary competition. We’d better off with the Fediverse growing and maturing.
Im not trying to say anyone should use one over the other, I’m glad both exists. You probably have a point that they are too different to be comparable, but for me they’d both compete for the same “social media time” and I simply get much more out of Lemmy.