Setting aside Big Tech and surveillance capitalism for a minute — I wonder if fediverse microblogging apps like Mastodon aren’t fairly antisocial and inclined to individualism, while apps like Lemmy are more community and artefact/stuff-to-share centric.
People are complex, societies infinitely more so, but software can nudge us this way or that way too.
I’d be interested to hear what others here think.
You can use both for both lol.
Plenty of lemmy is people just yelling their takes, or pushing the links they want you to see.
Plenty of Mastodon is people filtering by the hashtags they care about and having long form conversations within those topics.
They both take a fire hose of federated data and sort it out for you in a similar fashion. One is just more horizontal and one is more vertical.