From news, to shitposting, to memes, to more shitposting, Lemmy feels vibrant, active, lighthearted, fun and even powerful. Mastodon feels like a fucking funeral.
Why is a smaller community more fun than a bigger community?
Because the difficulty of not offending people increases as the number and cultural range of people changes.
A small group is easier to get comfortable with than a larger group.
Mastodon is basically just a bunch of guilty liberals who feel bad that their baby had became a nazi, but are not willing to take the steps necessary to grow from there. Lemmy comes from redditors who saw the platform as always being full of overt displays of nazism and thus were able to appropriately grow from the experience and free themselves from its influence.
When you look back at your reddit days you are ashamed, because you now know why it was wrong. When mastodon users look back at twitter they reminisce with fondness of their times hanging out with war criminals and retweeting right wing sources that agreed with them.
I find the microblog model to be fairly limiting. It’s good for posting quips, memes, and news, but it’s terrible for having any sort of a meaningful interactions. A forum like Lemmy facilitates much more interesting discussions.
Exactly. I often post walls of text, and it is probably because it takes me a lot of words to express ideas in English, but I also feel like I cannot discuss something deeply in whatever number of characters are admitted now on microblogging. Forums and such are great and I love reading long posts and comments. Also, I get lost in who is replying to what on those sites, but here it is literally linear!
Literally I have no idea what you are talking about…
ya wanna know what my feed has been all day over on mastodon…
gay people tooting “:3” and just that, hundreds of them… ddos the fedi with “:3”…
you see what you follow, follow cooler people. It’s not mastodon it’s a you problem. Should follow more gay and trans and neurodivrergent furries. It’s a party over there every day I love it
This isn’t my experience at all. Mastodon feels more or less exactly like Twitter-circa 2022 to me (just with fewer right-wing trolls) - still fun and vibrant and also informative.
Lemmy feels like a collection of weird freaks trying desperately to be cool. And don’t get me wrong, I’m one of them. But I would not call the vibe here “vibrant, active, lighthearted, fun” or certainly “powerful.”
