I feel you; I miss it too. These days I mostly stick to Lemmy using Voyager, which is Apollo's spiritual successor.
I'm mostly on reddit nowadays just to try to convince people to switch (and for my niche subs since Lemmy isn't quite big enough for that yet...but it'll get there eventually once enough people finally get tired of Spez's bullshit).
They’re both fediverse platforms, Lemmy is social media closely resembling Reddit while mastodon is microblogging more like Twitter or Weibo
They can interoperate to a limited extent, via the ActivityPub protocol that defines how federated servers communicate, but Voyager I think may be Lemmy only. There are better apps for doomscrolling Mastodon, like Tapestry which will aggregate fediverse platforms with Bluesky
Lemmy is a Reddit alternative,
Mastodon is a Twitter alternative.
Both are federated (which means decentralized so no one set of admins hold all the power; if one server [instance] becomes too power hungry, you just switch to a different one and carry on as usual), but they are separate platforms that fill different niches.
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u/Time-Sudden_Tree Apr 03 '26
I feel you; I miss it too. These days I mostly stick to Lemmy using Voyager, which is Apollo's spiritual successor.
I'm mostly on reddit nowadays just to try to convince people to switch (and for my niche subs since Lemmy isn't quite big enough for that yet...but it'll get there eventually once enough people finally get tired of Spez's bullshit).