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Lemmy more social than Mastodon or Nostr
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Having tried all three, its a stark difference in how much more social Lemmy is comparatively. Its not even close. Almost all posts I've encountered on lemmy have interaction; whereas, more often than not, posts on the other two platforms have no interaction. Wonder what the driving factor is behind this difference?
I've never heard of Nostr but Mastodon is a twitter clone and I don't find that style of website suits discussion well since you subscribe to accounts rather than communities.
It's an interesting dynamic!
I find myself talking more on lemmy as others say because it's easier/made for talking about topics. Mastodon and other fedi services center around following the account that made a thing rather than the thing(s) themselves. And that's fine, both have their place.
I think the other aspect is the easy to follow discussion threads. IMO it's the cleanest way to show and follow branching discussions.
I do like how it "looks" the most on topics. I wish mastodon had something similar revolving around their posts/hashtags.
You follow hashtags. It's what I do and it's been a good experience so far.
It's about the same as on Lemmy engagement-wise.
I've never understood what twitter style websites are actually for. They seem to have a tiny niche of celebrities and known personalities making a statement with no reasonable conversation stemming from it.
I don't understand how that structure was once one of the largest social media platforms in the first place.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction
In my experience Twitter was for modern Seinfeld jokes, mastodon is for monsterdon Sundays at 9pm et, and Lemmy is for commenting on Internet stuff.
the content is github
a distribution / marketing site is pypi
you are interacting with technologists.
The content already exists. And are interacting around that content. Rather than generating more and more content forever in a loop leading to nothing but more noise.
And you have direct access to these people! If a reasonable conversation is lacking it's cuz you are not bringing the party to the bar.
You are the star that makes the conversation happen.
So dial up a person 100x smarter than you. And find something to ask them.
Like a ChatGPT but will actual intelligence and passion at the other end.