Eighteen.

This is my story as well. I follow a few accounts on Mastadon, but I find it much easier to connect with Lemmy. I joined Maston during the height of the Twitter crisis, and Lemmy earlier this week during the Reddit crisis.

I struggle a little with Mastodon. The accounts I follow are all either people I follow on other social networks that just happen to mention that they have a mastodon account or accounts that are centered around a given topic that I searched for, such as AI art. Mastodon has a handy “verified” feature whereby you can prove that you are a representative of a website by adding a code snippet, but not everyone does. In short, it’s getting there but I can’t find people that I want to follow as easily as on old Twitter.

Lemmy is proving more intuitive to me so far, although part of that is because I’ve always been more of a Reddit person than a Twitter person. Once you get used to looking for communities, it’s easy to find any that may exist for a topic that you want. I’ve got multiple communities around the same topic from different instances, such as technology, but it’ll be easy to watch them over time and prune any that seem redundant or that may fall apart.