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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I've never tried it. Is it really more confusing than Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, Mastodon is a lot slicker and more robust in my experience so far (been on there less than a year, but still).

I think the "confusion" is just from having to pick an instance although iirc they made mastodon.social the "default" one for people who didn't want to choose, so maybe that hurdle is gone now, not sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought mastodon.social was closed to new accounts for aaages now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still looks like it's the default when you sign up from the mobile app, but both my accounts are on tiny servers so I'm far from an expert here 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Might've just been around when I started. I think they were struggling with everyone signing up there at the time. I went to mas.to instead

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They are about comparable, once you understand the instances it's pretty straightforward. But I'm ngl, I was confused at first. I'd made my first Mastodon account in 2018! And didn't use it till recently because I didn't understand it for the longest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think so, not if they use a good app. Tusky is the best so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't use it either, but I guess someone from your instance has to follow someone on another instance before you see content from there…? Maybe someone else can chime in. I just get this stuff third-hand from reading things other people say and listening to nerdy podcasts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you use the official Mastodon app, or an instance that has disabled it - you are unable to see the Federated timeline, which is why you would only see the Local timeline - IE things the people on your instance are sharing or following.

The federated timeline is a chronological stream of everything. A bit fast, but kinda magical in a way because I discover so many people just by spending 10-15 minutes combing through it during my visit each day.

I've also started following the same celebs/orgs that I used to follow on other social media.

And most importantly, I control what I see - not some algorithm funneling me into a partisan view of the world, which is a massive part of the issue with Twitter and Facebook and their relationship to current political situations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for clarifying!