I visit Reddit all the time. And I visited Digg before that. In fact I was hooked to this mode of operation since Digg. Suffice to say, something about link aggregation tickles my ADHD brain just right. However with the recent blackout of a big part of reddit, I decided to start my own Lemmy [...]
This is a fantastic point. On lemmy you follow communities and the people specifically arent as important. On mastodon its all about people as it was designed to be
That succinctly summarizes how I feel about Mastodon; I really want to like it, but I just don’t have the energy to join in on a constant flow of random thoughts, even from people I like.
Yeah, i was telling a masto friend the other day that reddit and lemmy are much less personal. You may very well never see the same username again which is fine imo because that person was only interacting with one of your interests. On mastodon you follow the person and get to know their opinions on topics you really had no interest in