I personally don't like microblogging platforms in general. It's cool that there's an alternative to twitter and the like, but I just have no pull towards platforms that emulate that kind of environment.
I think it's great that it's so popular and has introduced a lot of people to the fediverse and spread awareness of ethical alternatives to corporate slop, but is not for me.

Mastodon has a lot of people talking about craft. Meanwhile Lemmy's rare communities on the topics get a post every ten days.

It did but I believe the federation broke at some point and never got fixed.

can you not block in nostr??? I have not actually engaged because I don't like the non forum type formats.

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 ❤️

social media privacy "gotta keep em separated"

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

If you use Mbin, or I believe Piefed now too, instead of Lemmy, you can interact with Mastodon freely without having to get a separate account there. I'm subscribed to a lot of Mastodon accounts as a threadiverse user, and I only have this one account.

For the commuities/topics I'm interested in Mastodon has a very weird vibe that clashes with the vibe of the communities on Lemmy and sometimes it feels like the Lemmy communities are getting brigaded by Mastodon users. Also Mastodon comments are very "noisy", every comment needs an @someone to work and every second word is a hashtag. If I check out Mastodon on its own it just seems like a lot of people screaming into the void, but I never understood the appeal of Twitter either.

Lemmy doesn't work with Peertube and it doesn't seem like there's any importance given to it.

I really hate hashtags. People who make every second word are obviously annoying but even just having several #s at the end of the post is irritating. ESPECIALLY when I write my post and have to taint it with these stupid tags for visibility.

I'm glad that Piefed lets us add hashtags without actually displaying them.