Brayd

It’s not a front end for Lemmy but it’s a website that you can use to find new communities over several instances. It’s called Lemmy Explorer.

I am younger than 25, but I’m a Sys-Admin.

However my mother also uses the Fediverse and has nearly to none technical knowledge.

Also my cousin who’s 15 uses it. And some friends of mine who are between 18 to 26 use it without being what you typically would call a nerd.

So I think for the majority it applies but there are also people here not fitting in this sector.

Yes I did. Doesn’t change something now besides that they’re instantly defederated as soon as they enable Activity Pub support

For me I personally decided to block it because I made a poll and most of my users decided to block it. Also, after 24 hours we can see that moderation is not that good which is why I’d defederate from it as from any other instance that doesn’t match with the rules of my own server at all. But that is really the good thing about the Fediverse. Being that flexible.

It makes Threads less attractive for people using it because they „can follow people from Mastodon too“. So maybe through that a few people will decide to register in the Fediverse on any other platform rather than using Threads for it. If we only get a few people with that I’m fine with it tbh.

You’re welcome!

Hm for me it really works well. Especially because it has full text search by default. 👀 Just took me some time to figure out how to search accounts because I was used to how it is on mastodon and didn’t see that when you search for a users name it defaults to posts but there’s a tab for users.

Mastodon is very Twitter like. It’s focus is on implementing the main features and it’s just the software most users use. Then there’s also other software like Misskey (and Calckey (which I run on my server) as well as some other fork of which I’ve forgotten the name). Misskey (and its forks) implement additional features that Mastodon doesn’t have and don’t use the Mastodon API. So using Mastodon apps with them won’t work as good. There are Misskey apps though.

My personal opinion is, that Misskey and Calckey have a better and more modern approach in regards to UI/UX-Design. However that’s subjective. Misskey and Calckey also have additional features like longer posts (3000 characters per default with Calckey), pages, clips, drive and much more. Misskey and Calckey also use Reactions instead of “Favorites” which means that if you react with a 🎉 emoji to a post users on Misskey and Calckey will see that emoji as a reaction. Mastodon users will just see it as a favorite (so as a star).

In general I used Mastodon for quite a while and switched to running my own Calckey server at calckey.braydmedia.de