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.
Mastodon is for kind middle-aged trekkies to hold forth about how to live a good life (it involves Linux, and stopping to look at the flowers)
Lemmy is for goblin-moders to vent about their mental health issues using memes
Lemmy has a pretty big Trekkie base too. The series influenced a lot of the boomer generation.
I’ve never heard the term trekkie before, what’s it referring to?
Star Trek fandom. The series appears to be the moral compass of Mastodon.