As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.
It’s not just lemmy that’s benefiting from Elon Musk.
Theoretically they’re somewhat interoperable but if you plan on using both you’ll probably have a better experience having an account on an instance of each service.
Is there a need to have a lemmy and Mastodon?
Theoretically they’re somewhat interoperable but if you plan on using both you’ll probably have a better experience having an account on an instance of each service.
Yeah, I think that’s what I’m gonna do. I wanna try it out, I haven’t used any popular social network in years though.
From what I heard mastodon is formatted more like twitter whereas lemmy is more like reddit.
You could use only one, but browsing lemmy through mastodon (and vice versa) isn’t a great experience, so its recommended to have an account on both.
You can follow people from either, so you don’t need a second account. Both are federated.
Only technically true. The two don’t work super well together, Mastodon is a better frontend if you’re looking for a microbloggingn experience.