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Why is Lemmy, with a tiny fraction of Mastodon's MAU, more fun than Mastodon? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by bruhbeans@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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From news, to shitposting, to memes, to more shitposting, Lemmy feels vibrant, active, lighthearted, fun and even powerful. Mastodon feels like a fucking funeral.

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[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Notifications are also more reddit-ish, only pinging the direct parent post/reply author, without bothering the whole thread, and people can go back to the thread for updates.

Navigation of comments is also better. So it's easier to just post a simple joke, a quick comment, etc, and not accidentally annoy 50 different people.

And like reddit the post is treated as part of a community instead of a specific person's timeline, which extends to how comments are treated too.