Having tried all three, its a stark difference in how much more social Lemmy is comparatively. Its not even close. Almost all posts I've encountered on lemmy have interaction; whereas, more often than not, posts on the other two platforms have no interaction. Wonder what the driving factor is behind this difference?
I find microblogging format isn't really great for having any sort of meaningful discussion. Mastodon is good for posting news or memes, but that's about it. Lemmy format allows having an actual dialogue, and that makes it a lot more engaging.
I think had all neolib journalists suddenly brought the chat over to mastodon ala bluesky the whole landscape would be different (and the EU would be feeling itself more)
it doesn't matter what Europe does or does not do.
What matters is access to energy. Without which the civilization dies.
Where the journalists are therefore is irrelevant. Unless they're packing their bags.
Or they have hidden a mobile fusion reactor in their basement and just bidding the time.
mastodon is awesome if you actually can bring yourself to want to interact with a real person.
If you can't get anything out of mastodon you cannot get anything out of interacting with another human being.
Find someone to care about. Force yourself to care about them.
I prefer my interactions with other human beings to be deeper and more meaningful than what the format offers.
It's great for seeing existing dialogue, but I think it falls short for long term discussion between more than two people.
On a non-threaded board (e.g. forums, github issues) you can watch a thread you're interested in. On Lemmy/reddit you only get notifications for direct responses to your comments.
I think some sort of option to watch/unwatch whole subtrees of comments would help a lot.
I haven't thought of that, but that's actually a neat idea. You're right that Lemmy format works best for two people having a discussion, and it becomes messy to track larger conversations with more people. What often ends up happening is that the person who made the original top level comment ends up having many separate conversations with different people.
I haven't actually seen a good way to represent discussions between a group of people now that I think of it. Having watch functionality helps you know when replies show up, but it would be neat if different people replying could also be aware of what they're all saying.