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with the way twitter is going, I don't give it much longer to live so we're diversifying our social media presence just in case.

    • PorkrollPosadist@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Mastodon and Lemmy are both built on top of the same protocol: ActivityPub. That said, they provide a substantially different user interface. Mastodon is focused on microblogging (basically, a Twitter clone), where you follow individual users and boost (retweet) or like posts. Lemmy is focused on communities (basically, a Reddit clone), where instead of subscribing to users, you subscribe to communities. There is some interoperability, but it kind of like a Spanish person trying to speak to a Portuguese person at this point.

      Long story short, even though the goal is for all content to be accessible regardless of which platform you are using, there is a lot of content that can only be understood if you are using the correct one.

    • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      And they actually federate with each other! Trying to figure out how to federate prolewiki's mastodon with lemmygrad 🤔

      But lemmy is more like reddit (link aggregator) and mastodon is more like twitter (micro-blogging platform). Though we get 2000 characters on mastodon to write a "toot" with, which is a lot and almost as much as you can have on Lemmy. The lines keep getting blurred and I think at this point people associate more with the UI/UX than the tech.

      Although the main difference I think is on lemmy you follow communities, and on mastodon you follow individual accounts.