Does Mastodon bring anything of value to a Lemmy user? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 days ago by catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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As far as I can tell from my venture into Mastodon's feeds, the demographics of that part of Fediverse isn't that different from what Lemmy has: the same political takes, FOSS stuff, "big corpos bad", etc.

I wonder, is there anything that Mastodon excels at that Lemmy just doesn't provide? For example, I noticed that there are game developers and artists posting their stuff on Mastodon. Not many game developers (or any creatives, really) on Lemmy though.

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 26 points 2 days ago

they are entirely different contexts of communication. mastodon is a 'microblog' platform, where one person tends to broadcast to a group of subscribed users

lemmy is just forums with threaded discussion.. many to many as it were.

personally, ive always generally hated the twittersphere (microblogging), and avoid it mostly. but it is nice being able to subscribe to the small number of microbloggers i do enjoy thanks to mbin's built-in integration.