This question is especially for people who have joined in the last week. Have you used other fediverse platforms or is this your first time really using one? What do you think of it so far? Are you aware that you can comment on Lemmy posts with a Mastodon account?
Nope.
I have used federated tools like identi.ca, pump.io and diaspora and I’ve also have a mastodon account, however I almost never posted to these and I rarely log in and follow everyone. I have accounts because I work closely with federation and want federated social media to succeed but I don’t like the twitter format. I have friends which use them but it’s just a flood of posts from friends and I love my friends, but they have interests and hobbies which I don’t share and I have lots of interests and hobbies they don’t share.
I’ve always enjoyed the interest specific communities much better, I generally don’t care who is saying things, I care about what they say and if it’s interesting or informative. I love the model of you go to places which are interesting and everyone upvotes and curates a collection of interesting links and posts and then discusses them. I am really glad we now have that for the fediverse. I knew lemmy existed, but never signed up for it until the reddit shenanigans started because, at the end of the day it’s social and it needs users to be interesting, now reddit has given lemmy users and for that I’m grateful :)