I just downloaded the app to see what’s all the hype about, and once again, I’m asked to pick a group, in this case, a server.
I suppose it’s like Lemmy instances, so, is there a general one, or an equivalent of lemmy.world in terms of size, interaction, and so on?
My mistake if I’m understanding things wrong, thanks!
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Thank you! Seems nice so far, I’m gonna continue digging to see if I find things I like
Getting tired of all this choice. Can’t a large corporation just tell me what memes to like and what to think?
What’s the condescending attitude for? 🤨 I legit don’t know a single thing about the platform, my bad for asking recommendations as a new user like the normal average Joe?
I thought it was a joke.
Among the biggest there are mastodon.social, mastodon.online, mstdn.social, mas.to and mastodon.world. As usual I guess it would be preferable to join in a not so big instance as to reduce centralization. The local/federated timeline is the wild west anyway, its built on your follows.
Granted I never used Twitter so I might be using Mastodon wrong.
The local/federated timeline is the wild west anyway, its built on your follows.
The local and federated timelines should be a firehose of every post, irrespective of your follows. Your “home” timeline is your follows.
I meant “(mastodon) is built on your follows” not the local and federated timelines. Because at least I couldn’t deal with the local/federated feeds and has to search for people to follow instead
Ah 👍 yeah depending on the client the federated timeline is just a blur as it refreshes. Following hashtags is great feature that enables discovery without an algorithm.
I’m interested as well. Any list or explanation of different servers?
You should be able to browse a list here. Mastodon.social is the biggest instance I believe, but most will recommend choosing a server more suited to your particular location or interests.
So how does one browse mastodon? From within lemmy or their own app, and is the lemmy login valid for mastodon?
Same as you would browse a Lemmy instance.
Etc.
There are multiple apps for Mastodon. The https://join-mastodon.org site should have info on them. Search your app store. Some do multiple Fediverse platforms, but I don’t know any that do both Mastodon and Lemmy.
Lemmy login is only valid on your one Lemmy instance. But from Mastodon you can search for a Lemmy community as
@<community>@<instance>and follow it like another user. If you @ mention a community in a Mastodon post it will create a new post in the community. And if you reply to a Lemmy post from Mastodon it will show as a comment in the post on Lemmy.You can look up Mastodon users from Lemmy as https://lemmy.instance/u/[email protected]. But you can’t follow them from Lemmy like you can in Mastodon or Kbin.
