Fediverse

I really like it personally, but I've heard some folks have somewhat mixed experiences with it

I think it's more of a different kind of Internet culture from Twitter than lemmy is from reddit (in both cases I'm ignoring obvious political differences)

Some folks have reported having experiences with that culture clash or crummy instance leadership. I never used twitter but I've heard it's more serious of a platform and culture (which in part might be that it's a fairly political culture like lemmy is).

All of that sounds negative but that's all second hand, my experience has been wonderful 😅. Granted, I mostly just use it to tell people I think their art is pretty and occasionally chat with splatoon folks (a competitive game I like). But I know lots of folks are very happy with it.

Like with much of the fediverse, getting unlucky and picking an instance that has leadership issues can cause problems for you, and picking a bigger instance generally gets you a kind of a more "vanilla" experience, but doesn't lean into the decentralized benefits of the fediverse as much. And Mastodon, although not as big as corporate platforms, is a fair bit bigger than lemmy/kbin I think

I have a bunch of lemmy accounts on various and have bounced around between them figuring out where I wanna be (thinking I might switch back to lem.ee), but with Mastodon I just picked mastodon.online and have never had any real issues so that's where my account is :)

Edit: actually, I wish the character limit is longer. I type too much (as you can see lol) and I'm not used to having a limit cause I never used twitter 😅

Hope this helps, if you have any particular questions feel free to ask ☺️