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?
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It’s probably that Lemmy is communities but mastodon is individuals
rock stars, not individuals
I left reddit for lemmy on the big migration but I though it wouldn’t last. Here I am years after. I enjoy lemmy a lot more than I ever did Reddit.
Lemmy is discussion focused, the bulk of content is the comments guided by posts. Mastadon/nostr are about microblogging, the posts are the focus of content, not the comments.
you are missing out. Which is much worse than just being wrong.
The focus of mastodon is on the people, not the comments.
Deeply care about the other person and then you’ll be interacting with someone you admire
The comments are topics they find interesting and want to share.
With coders, when they post something, is usually mostly signal.
Mastodon is so boring for me. Some people boost me because I discuss my research or Linux but rarely any engagement
Microblog… I just don’t care about other people that much. Specific topics are more engaging and interesting.
i care about other people, specifically coders. They are my rock stars. And that’s who i want to keep in touch with.
On mastodon, if have something up your sleeve others want to have access to you. I get access to certified, cuz whats that, geniuses. They have the repos, source code, and unittests to prove it!
On lemmy, not so much.
Or riddle me this, how to build relationships on lemmy?
You don’t. I head back to Reddit personals for that.
Then to get something out the opportunities the universe is gifting you, all you have to do is turn on that empathy switch and adjust the level up to max.
The issue is all in your head.
You are surrounded by giants, but you don’t notice or care.
Force yourself to care.
Find someone tomorrow and magically decide they are now the most important person in your universe moving forward. And you want to keep in touch with them regularly. And you find what they are up to thrilling.
Then type in this url
This will be enough to fill your entire lifetime and then some.
Sorry, what?
I find microblogging format isn’t really great for having any sort of meaningful discussion. Mastodon is good for posting news or memes, but that’s about it. Lemmy format allows having an actual dialogue, and that makes it a lot more engaging.
mastodon is awesome if you actually can bring yourself to want to interact with a real person.
If you can’t get anything out of mastodon you cannot get anything out of interacting with another human being.
Find someone to care about. Force yourself to care about them.
I prefer my interactions with other human beings to be deeper and more meaningful than what the format offers.
Lemmy format allows having an actual dialogue
It’s great for seeing existing dialogue, but I think it falls short for long term discussion between more than two people.
On a non-threaded board (e.g. forums, github issues) you can watch a thread you’re interested in. On Lemmy/reddit you only get notifications for direct responses to your comments.
I think some sort of option to watch/unwatch whole subtrees of comments would help a lot.
I haven’t thought of that, but that’s actually a neat idea. You’re right that Lemmy format works best for two people having a discussion, and it becomes messy to track larger conversations with more people. What often ends up happening is that the person who made the original top level comment ends up having many separate conversations with different people.
I haven’t actually seen a good way to represent discussions between a group of people now that I think of it. Having watch functionality helps you know when replies show up, but it would be neat if different people replying could also be aware of what they’re all saying.
mastodon is like an oasis in a sea of noise.
Concentrate on the signal, not the noise.
Build relationships with people you care about.
The problem with mastodon might turn out to be having a heart lacking in empathy. Need to be able to care enough to want to be associated with someone you admire.
We live amongst rock stars. How can anyone completely miss that?! The problem is neither the platform nor the rock stars.
Don’t need a sea of people. Need 10 or 5 or 3. As long as they are rock stars. I count my blessings daily.
It’s clearly how approach to using mastodon. Small tweak to your mindset and you can get alot out of the platform.
Dial up a super hero and tell them they are awesome.
Go to pypi
Find packages you like and their maintainers.
Hook up with them and tell them they are awesome, but found a few things that doesn’t make sense in the docs. Whatever the approach. You are in!
Do it now.
It’ll take all of 5 mins.
I don’t know but that image looks sick
Concur. Love how lemmings bundle up and socialize!
It is fascinating because of how small (relatively) the community is on Lemmy.
I do have and use Mastodon. But more and more I keep thinking that traditional blogs + rss are a better fit for me.
Hey, just to drive some more social interaction, what’s your favorite color? Mine’s a mix of aqua and turquoise.
