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.

    • joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 years ago

      This is how I mainly used Mastodon before Lemmy. It lets you follow topics instead of people; I prefer finding content this way. Unless a person really likes the format of Mastodon better, I’d suggest Lemmy over Mastodon for people that would rather follow topics than individuals.

        • joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          3 years ago

          I found it very refreshing that it doesn’t have an algorithm at all. I know there are some downsides to that, but I think they’re worth it.

    • ErinCrush@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      3 years ago

      Tusky is a great app. But it doesn’t seem to have a trending tab, which I use to find cool accounts to follow. For now I use trunks.

      • MysticKetchup@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 years ago

        If you go to settings you can add/remove tabs which includes trending. You can also add your own tab with any combination of hashtags, but pretty sure this only sorts by latest

    • spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      3 years ago

      Those are actually not groups. Groups boost posts from all users that mention them. https://a.gup.pe/ is one implementation of groups with mastodon in mind, but lemmy communities actually work the same way when followed from mastodon. I believe other fediverse platforms implement groups in similar ways under the hood. This means that everything is more or less interoperable between platforms.

    • DharkStare@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 years ago

      Another good thing is putting people you follow into lists. I just wish we could do the same with hashtags.