It has an excellent web layout/app (Interstellar) and has Mastodon baked in along with Lemmy. It’s a very elegant catch all piece of fediverse software.
It has an excellent web layout/app (Interstellar) and has Mastodon baked in along with Lemmy. It’s a very elegant catch all piece of fediverse software.
Mastodon (and others a la twitter) is actor-centric, where focus is on people.
Lemmy (and others a la reddit) is topic-centric, where focus is on common interests.
These two are very different approaches that I can hardly see mixing well. I thought of “microblogs” of mbin as a “nice to have” but unnecessary functionality. Did it actually lift off?
Mastodon also has hashtags and guppe groups, which kind of blur the line
kbin.social did lift off. Maybe even too much for this software at the time?
Started to argue with myself: if the concepts of following people and topics did not mix well, how could fb reach a couple bilion users? I myself silently hope for Bonfire to succeed, even after seeing Friendica, Hubzilla and almost forgotten Diaspora. Maybe it just wasnt done rght in FOSS so far?
Reddit was a fusion of old forums and Digg before it nuked itself.
I never cared for Facebook or Twitter style following people, threads in a topic board feels just more natural.