Yeah. Morning math got me stupid. lol. Edited!

Derp! Thanks!!

It’s scale.

Scale is the enemy of social networks. All of them, including Lemmy.

Let’s say 0.1% of the population are just straight up assholes who ruin everything.

If you only got 100 people on a site, no one is an asshole.

1000 people? Well now you got that asshole Andy in the group. Fucking Andy. But we can deal with him.

But we scale up to 1,000,000? Well now you got 1000 fucking assholes to deal with!

love following you on mastodon and you’ve been a great part of discovery!

lol

shrug

why tho? why is that the name of the platform then?

but like… why tho?

so it’s a “gun rifle”? why in the world would they name a platform after it?

Great. Now we gotta Google what a Karabin Gun is.

we do! Check out #BlackMastodon and any of the queer and trans hashtags. And definitely follow Lisa Melton, she’s the reblog queen and you’ll discover tons of people through her posts and reblogs @[email protected]

follow more people, yo. You GOTS to follow liberally, click more diverse hashtags and follow them too! My feed is super gay, very POC, and a blast!

As an active person on both (and a mod here), Mastodon is definitely the most active. Yes, you have to follow liberally, dive into reblogs and follow some more, also cruising the Explore/trending section helps but it doesn’t take long to build up a super fun feed. People engage alot, no algorithms, it’s all just live and great.

Lemmy “elegance” isn’t that elegant. I’ve had to work with admins to help break through issues of posts federating around, but it’s getting better. I’m finally getting things going pretty smooth and my community is getting momentum, [email protected] but it’s been a very slow, buggy, and painful process. One thing that helped was posting to my Lemmy community exclusively through my Mastodon account for a while to help bring people over.

Search is a wash. Mastodon, I can put a link to a post in the search and it pops up, can’t do that here. But Lemmy has better search for just text.

You see? Both are nowhere near perfect, both are flawed, and both are great! They serve very different purposes and don’t compete. They complement each other. I’m super happy we have both and absolutely love building up this community supported DIY fediverse.

Exciting times ahead!

Mastodon is more active but Lemmy is super fun and growing.

Mastodon keeps getting big injections of new users because Musk is a stupid man baby and keeps pushing users away.

Lemmy, post Reddit protests, is now dependent on word of mouth.

Fast. It’s staying asleep that’s the hard part.

Board games.

While I doubt I could get my friends and family on yet ANOTHER messaging app in the year of our lord 2023.

Sup. Is a fucking brilliant name.

nah

Siri, while not great, handles timers, reminders, and dumbshit like that just fine without typing. I have yet to find another good use for these assistants.

Yep.

Not sure why people struggle with this. On Reddit you have aww, but you can also have awww, awwww, aww1, awwpets, awwwpet, and so on.

People tend to pick the bigger ones some go for niche ones, whatever.

This makes so much sense.

BBC wouldn’t make their news site under Google Blogger… so why depend on other corporations for your microblogging?

Spin up your own server, have your own verification, then use it on your site and share outs.