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    1 year ago

    How does mastodon work compared to twitter? I keep hearing about it but I’m still trying to figure out lemmy.

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        31 year ago

        Firefish is another fediverse microblogging platform and it has search and quote tweets, but you can’t follow hashtags in your regular timeline (you can set up a separate timeline called an antenna that regularly pulls in posts according to a list of words or hashtags you specify). It also has a tweet deck style layout you can setup and you can easily follow and be followed by mastodon users from a firefish account.

        There are other alternatives as well, but this is the one I am most familiar with.

    • @ADON15
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      71 year ago

      In the same way lemmy is like many reddits communicating with eachother; mastodon is comparable to many twitters that can share users and posts with eachother

    • @TwilightVulpine
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      41 year ago

      It’s very similar to Twitter, I’d say even more than Lemmy is to Reddit. Mastodon federated like Lemmy but in practice you can follow anyone from any instance. You just need to follow people using @[email protected] rather than just @username

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      21 year ago

      Mastodon “block” is one-way, Twitter is two-way (it blocks the other person seeing your posts if they’re logged in).