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Similar. For me it's almost a drop-in replacement for Reddit, while mastodon not really
Well yeah but they're two different things.
Lemmy is a forum like reddit.
Mastodon is microblogging like twitter.
Even then i think twitter works (or used to) because of the algorithm that kept you getting more content, which mastodon doesn't have (nor shouldn't) but with content agregators as long as you are subscribed to stuff that interests you you only need to hit a certain number of users for content to keep flowing.
It's the difference between subscribing to subjects rather than to people.
That's interesting. I always hated the algorithm on Twitter and just wanted to see and interact with stuff from people I followed. I can get that with Mastodon, but also see other posts from the community when I want to.
At first I wanted a one-service social solution (think Twitter and Reddit and Insta wrapped up), but, for the reasons you listed, the fed is great because it's not trying to be a one-service solution.
Yeah, Mastodon was half a clone at best. Still, it has potential to turn into something better.