As far as I can tell from my venture into Mastodon's feeds, the demographics of that part of Fediverse isn't that different from what Lemmy has: the same political takes, FOSS stuff, "big corpos bad", etc.

I wonder, is there anything that Mastodon excels at that Lemmy just doesn't provide? For example, I noticed that there are game developers and artists posting their stuff on Mastodon. Not many game developers (or any creatives, really) on Lemmy though.

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[–] catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But you can do that! I can see my posts from .social account and they appear in my home timeline just fine after following.

[–] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

for me it doesn't work. tested on both troet.cafe and wien.rocks mastodon instances. neither following my user account ( https://feddit.org/u/gandalf_der_13te ) or following a typical lemmy community ( https://feddit.org/c/dach ) works. both appear in the search results, but their feeds are empty.

edit: update: sometimes it does work but results are inconsistent. probably it was fixed in a recent update and some mastodon / lemmy instances just haven't updated to it yet. that would be good news ❤️

[–] catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 hours ago

I can see plenty of your posts from my test .social account. You probably just need to follow your account to fetch the posts.