• @Korne127@lemmy.world
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    981 year ago

    The problem I have with Mastodon is you need people to get people. And if the people I personally know and follow just aren’t there, I don’t… have fun there. Lemmy is much easier because it doesn’t depend on personal people, but just communities. So even if there are few people, that’s still easy to get more people there because it doesn’t rely on many specific ones.

    • @mookulator@lemmy.world
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      411 year ago

      Totally. Microblogging (twitter alternatives) have a much harder task because they depend on the right users. Especially famous/influential people. Post aggregators (Reddit alternatives) don’t have that constraint.

    • SapienSRC
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      241 year ago

      Agreed. It took me a few tries to get into Mastodon. What helped me was discovering that I could follow hashtags of topics that interest me. That opened the door to interesting people to follow.

    • @LordBullington@lemmy.world
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      121 year ago

      Yeah I’ve been trying to fill out my Mastodon by doing tons of research and guides on who to follow, which kinda sucks anyways, but my feed is still empty except for a handful of accounts. Wired is active, so I’m basically just looking at a link aggregate of Wired articles. Might as well just go to wired.com

      • Joe B
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        31 year ago

        Follow hashtags then you will find the people. Mastodon Twitter the whole lot of them have there own niche, you just got to figure it out!

    • George Hotelling
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      121 year ago

      or just be a weirdo and reply to Lemmy comments from your Mastodon account like me. Then you don’t need people on Mastodon since they’re already on Lemmy.

      • @Korne127@lemmy.world
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        51 year ago

        Yeah, that’s true; but I kind of meant actually using Mastodon and its original content, not other ActivityPub content 😅
        It’s really cool it’s possible like this though

        • George Hotelling
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          01 year ago

          @Korne127 it was actually kind of a pain to find the link to make a comment, but it was funny enough that I figured it out.

          I actually do follow a couple Lemmy communities from my Mastodon account but the UX is much better in Lemmy.

          • @Korne127@lemmy.world
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            11 year ago

            I can imagine haha; but the possibility of the connection is still cool. And congrats on finding the link haha.

    • @Shialac@lemmy.world
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      71 year ago

      Yep… I wasn’t ever much into Twitter, I have no “Influencers” or whatever I follow that I could then follow on Mastodon… I found it really hard to find any content that was interesting to me.

      Lemmy on the other hand, I find it really easy to find Communities I am interested in

    • Cryptic Fawn
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      61 year ago

      Mmm this isn’t entirely right. People are encouraged to follow hashtags to find people. It actually works very well.

    • @Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com
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      21 year ago

      If you’re looking for a good middle ground, maybe kbin will be more your speed? It’s compatible with both Lemmy and Mastodon. So even if you don’t have the right Mastodon users to follow, you can still get content via Lemmy.