I’m not going to make a big paragraph to explain myself but here are the positive points:
- No advertising
- Diversified applications
- Very good freedom of expression
- Fedivers
- Verification (using a website)
Now negative points:
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I was sold instances that served as a mirror with X which would have facilitated integration into Mastodon for users like me. Only 2% of the accounts I follow on X are on Mastodon (Mozilla, Proton).
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There are not really « fun » accounts like https://x.com/humansnocontext that post funny video clips, I find Mastodon a little too serious, I see a lot of political accounts and sometimes the lives of normal people like mine. It’s a shame 😕. I mean, I chose Lemmy because it’s so much more diverse!
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You cannot change your username. It’s a shame about that...
Well, that was my opinion on Mastodon.
If you have recommendations, favorites of Mastodon accounts, share them with me.
Do you feel similar shortcomings from lemmy compared to reddit?
I apologize for not having more to add. I just find it interesting to see what others feel who swapped to mastadon and lemmy.
Never liked Mastodon (neither did I like Twitter, X or whatever tf it is now) because of the no-community nature of it. Therefore, can't speak for Mastodon vs Lemmy.
However, I do see the "why so serious" problem on Lemmy a lot compared to Reddit. It can be depressing at times honestly. Lemmy really needs to up its shitposting game. Unfortunately, I do find myself going to Reddit when I want to come across uplifting posts. I really don't want to know how the world is inching towards fascism every day at such times.
I feel like there's not as much content in shitposting subreddits. I also really miss videos. But I'm really glad I changed to Lemmy as much of a shithole Reddit has become.
I have not had Twitter before so it's quite an unusual format for me. I though since it's part of the fediverse, might as well check it out. Following a couple accounts and have a shitpost account myself. And.. Videos!