On average if I make a post on Mastodon whether I get a comment, and a continued conversation is either hit or miss.

On Lemy if I make a post it’s almost insane the probalility of actual comments, conversation and discusion with many users that can occur in a single post compared to Mastodon.

Is this because of the communities on Lemy making things more seamless and simple to find content I might want to consume and discuss as a user? Because say I join a Mastodon server, nothings really organized by topics or anything. Sure there are hashtags but, the user would have to know to search a specific hashtag and there’s the chance of even missing somes post that may be related even if the topic is similar to a hashtag searched for.

Who knows, what are Lemy users thoughts on this?

I know one thing, if you can make a good platform, then you can get great conversations in anything that people are interested in. It seems to me Lemy is the best at this for most users. While on Mastodon, while i’m not saying I hadn’t had people comment on my posts, it seems less likely then Lemmy. I don’t think I made a single post where no one has commented atleast something on Lemy.

    • Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 months ago

      This is it. It’s the same as Reddit being better than Twitter for conversation.

      But this is also why Kbin is the best technology, combining both platforms.

        • GeekFTW@kbin.social
          1·
          8 months ago

          kbin has been vastly lagging behind lemmy because for a lengthy period of time development has been effectively stopped as the primary dev (ernest) was going through some bad real life issues which took priority. This led to a lot of people leaving kbin or blocking it outright because of spam and bots and lack of updates.

          Ernest returned a weekish ago and is back to publishing updates (including several which have already killed the spam problem, being able to transfer community ownership and more) and daily posts dictating what he’s working on and pushing (including the API which should be within the next few days).

          Lemmy at this point has had a huge head start and isn’t basically one person so kbin lagging behind isn’t surprising. Doesn’t mean their statement of ‘But this is also why Kbin is the best technology, combining both platforms.’ is any less accurate. Kbin does combine both platforms, Lemmy doesn’t. ‘Best’ can be subjective, but if that’s their opinion then there ya go.

  • Danileonis @lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Lemmy (like Reddit) is about topics, and communities are formed around them. Mastodon (like Twitter/X) is user-centric, and discussions are formed around them. They are simply two different approaches to the social component.

    The nature of these social networks makes one more useful for already known users/organizations and less for the common user. In fact, if you want to follow a particular person, Mastodon is more useful, but if you want to talk about some topic in general, Lemmy will always be superior.