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..and the moonblades@catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone

Does Mastodon bring anything of value to a Lemmy user?

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.

gandalf_der_13te@gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org
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Replying to @⁨catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone⁩

for me it doesn’t work. tested on both troet.cafe and wien.rocks mastodon instances. neither following my user account ( feddit.org/u/gandalf_der_13te ) or following a typical lemmy community ( feddit.org/c/dach ) works. both appear in the search results, but their feeds are empty.

edit: update: sometimes it does work but results are inconsistent. probably it was fixed in a recent update and some mastodon / lemmy instances just haven’t updated to it yet. that would be good news ❤️

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