What is your favourite characteristic of Lemmy? What details of the software or the community do you like?
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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What I like most about #Lemmy is that it is a content-orientated entrance to the Fediverse and that the content is structured accordingly, a kind of forum structure.
Most Fediverse services are account-orientated and (especially with #Mastodon)) the content is too mixed up for me and I miss the context.
The term "community" is somewhat ambiguous here: the one "Lemmy community" doesn't really exist, because the whole Fediverse is the community. It's not limited to Lemmy users and can't be separated. At the same time, there are the various groups/topics, which are also called "communities".
I also noticed this content orientation and I like it very much! I feels less like a guilty pleasure and more like real, substantial communication – with, as you say, context and the possibility to develop longer thoughts. I know that there's the possibility of some kind of thematic groups on Mastodon, but I don't really understand that fully yet.
It also seems to me that there's more communication between people who don't know each other. On Mastodon, I rather stick to the people I already know and rarely start a conversation with strangers, but I feel like over here, this is the default. Or is it?