I’m hosting and running a Lemmy just for myself, and am having no problem with it. Lemmy is great. But I’m looking to branch out, and see what else exists out there.
I’m hosting and running a Lemmy just for myself, and am having no problem with it. Lemmy is great. But I’m looking to branch out, and see what else exists out there.
My take in this would be the following: It is simply a different paradigm, focusing on a different approach to engagement.
On Lemmy, you follow communities (topics) and you are supposed to be interested in what happens in the world regarding that topic. In Mastodon, you follow mostly users, content creators, people (yes, you can follow hashtags, too). You are not interested in open source (a community/topic) in general, rather, you are interested in what particular your favourite developer is currently working on, and so on. You either want both of these worlds, so you make an account on Lemmy to follow topics that interest you within a UI optimized for that. And you create a Mastodon account to follow those specific people.
Alternatively, you use only one platform and follow the content from the other platform, too, but in a UI that is not optimized for such type of content. It all depends on what are you comfortable with and what do you enjoy.