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[–] 12 points 3 years ago (4 children)

The mastodon app on f-droid is marked as "promotes anti-features" with a description "This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service" and I wonder why that would be, since there's also Tusky, Fedilab, Husky, and some others, none of which have a warning like that.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Is it possible to view Matsodon from Lemmy platforms?

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    In my cursory research, it seems to be possible to view mastodon through Kbin. And possible to view Lemmy through Mastodon.

    Lemmy doesn't have support for following user accounts, only communities.

    All the platforms use the same backend. So there's no reason full mastodon interoperability couldn't be added to Lemmy in the future.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    Is this what everyone is using now? I was using Megalodon, Tusky, and the original app, but I've skipping a few updates of all of them.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago*

    I'm mostly on Trunks.. and I occasionally glance at Megalodon. Both have been light on updates lately (maybe I'm just spoiled by the crazy pace of development on Connect for Lemmy right now).

    Based on their Mastodon posts, it looks like the Megalodon dev has been hard at work re-basing their app on the new official Mastodon app version. Still no public release of that to use that I'm aware of.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    I switched last year and haven't looked back! For me at least, Mastodon has been a much better experience than Twitter ever was.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    I just deactivated both of my Twitter accounta. Done with the bs, I'll use mastadon for a while (and Lemmy).

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    And yet you still can't follow threads on their app, so on Tusky I'll stay

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Which Android client should I use for Mastodon ?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (20 children)

    Mastodon is just so empty as a platform. I hope for its success but I am not seeing it at this point the way we are with Lemmy.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    This is a strange take - Mastodon makes up ~80% of the Fediverse, whereas Lemmy makes up like 3% or something.

    Mastodon is the entire reason the Fediverse as a whole ended up taking off - for most people, it is the only thing they are aware of.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    According to fediverse observer Lemmy hit 2.2 million users to mastodons 8 million, so it's up to like 17% now!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Not accurate unfortunately as the vast majority are bots. It's more along the lines of 300k to 500k currently.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What is the evidence that these are bots?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    It was obvious - the instances are not shown on sources like fedidb.org anymore, but if you went to the instances which were growing fastest, all the accounts on there had gibberish names with almost no user activity.

    It would be great if Lemmy actually had 2 million users, but it just doesn't, sorry. :(

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    If you're looking for the exact same celebrities you followed on Twitter, you're going to be let down.

    If you follow hashtags instead, there's a lot to like. In a sense, Mastodon almost seems more Reddit/Lemmy-like, in the fact that content is more discoverable by topic instead of person.

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