My opinion on Mastodon after 2 weeks...
My opinion on Mastodon after 2 weeks...
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.
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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!