You should be able to browse a list here. Mastodon.social is the biggest instance I believe, but most will recommend choosing a server more suited to your particular location or interests.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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Getting tired of all this choice. Can't a large corporation just tell me what memes to like and what to think?
What's the condescending attitude for? 🤨 I legit don't know a single thing about the platform, my bad for asking recommendations as a new user like the normal average Joe?
I thought it was a joke.
So how does one browse mastodon? From within lemmy or their own app, and is the lemmy login valid for mastodon?
Same as you would browse a Lemmy instance.
Etc.
There are multiple apps for Mastodon. The https://join-mastodon.org site should have info on them. Search your app store. Some do multiple Fediverse platforms, but I don't know any that do both Mastodon and Lemmy.
Lemmy login is only valid on your one Lemmy instance. But from Mastodon you can search for a Lemmy community as @<community>@<instance> and follow it like another user. If you @ mention a community in a Mastodon post it will create a new post in the community. And if you reply to a Lemmy post from Mastodon it will show as a comment in the post on Lemmy.
You can look up Mastodon users from Lemmy as https://lemmy.instance/u/user@mastodon.instance. But you can't follow them from Lemmy like you can in Mastodon or Kbin.
Among the biggest there are mastodon.social, mastodon.online, mstdn.social, mas.to and mastodon.world. As usual I guess it would be preferable to join in a not so big instance as to reduce centralization. The local/federated timeline is the wild west anyway, its built on your follows.
Granted I never used Twitter so I might be using Mastodon wrong.
The local/federated timeline is the wild west anyway, its built on your follows.
The local and federated timelines should be a firehose of every post, irrespective of your follows. Your "home" timeline is your follows.
I meant "(mastodon) is built on your follows" not the local and federated timelines. Because at least I couldn't deal with the local/federated feeds and has to search for people to follow instead
Ah 👍 yeah depending on the client the federated timeline is just a blur as it refreshes. Following hashtags is great feature that enables discovery without an algorithm.