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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[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

Yeah mastodon because its like xitter is just something I have never been interested in social media wise. Kinda stinks because I like the watch party thing but I don't want to make an account for one thing. Heck I don't even make matrix or peertube even though those would be nice. I really wish there was more account login interoporability.

[-] catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Better interoperability with Mastodon is on Piefed's roadmap so maybe Fedi won't be as fractured soon. I find it a bit funny that Fedi has so many people on it but we can barely interact with them because they are on Mastodon and Lemmy can't talk to it.

I really like Peertube I wish it had content though.

[-] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

When your instance upgrades you'll be able to follow Mastodon accounts in Piefed and see their posts in your home feed.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

this is where I think the mistake was made. I really think they should have started with the idea of a user and a user account as a place for various services to store configs and then did something like saml. So the most basic server to run would be a user server and you could even have simplified user applications that is for a user to keep his own user account. I think nostr would be a good way to start from this perspective but im not sure if its doing it really the way I am thinking.

[-] catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

The problem with nostr is that it quickly turned into a nazi bar at its worst so most people (including me) simply dismiss it whenever they hear about it.