It has an excellent web layout/app (Interstellar) and has Mastodon baked in along with Lemmy. It's a very elegant catch all piece of fediverse software.

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[–] dudenas@slrpnk.net 12 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

Mastodon (and others a la twitter) is actor-centric, where focus is on people.

Lemmy (and others a la reddit) is topic-centric, where focus is on common interests.

These two are very different approaches that I can hardly see mixing well. I thought of "microblogs" of mbin as a "nice to have" but unnecessary functionality. Did it actually lift off?

[–] MBM 2 points 7 hours ago

Mastodon also has hashtags and guppe groups, which kind of blur the line

[–] Kierunkowy74@piefed.social 3 points 19 hours ago

kbin.social did lift off. Maybe even too much for this software at the time?

[–] dudenas@slrpnk.net 3 points 19 hours ago

Started to argue with myself: if the concepts of following people and topics did not mix well, how could fb reach a couple bilion users? I myself silently hope for Bonfire to succeed, even after seeing Friendica, Hubzilla and almost forgotten Diaspora. Maybe it just wasnt done rght in FOSS so far?