Ask Lemmy

I'm using Mbin, website only. I'm not an app person at all. Which is ironic, considering the instance I'm on was created as a pilot for the app iirc.

Why Mbin? There's many reasons, but the most practically important one is that I can follow users, not just communities. This gives me a direct means to receive posts from Mastodon, unlike Lemmy users who have to rely on Mastodon posts mentioning a community explicitly. But Piefed does have that on their roadmap iirc, there's other reasons too why I prefer Mbin.

Mbin lets me "loud" subscribe to communities and users, which means I get notified of any new posts by them. I don't know if Piefed and Lemmy have the same functionality, they probably do under a different name? Anyway, I usually "consume", for lack of a better word coming to mind, the fediverse only via the feed from my loud subscriptions. I rarely browse manually. For when I do, I have infinite scrolling disabled.

One thing I like to do that isn't really possible as easily on Lemmy and Piefed is to check who upvoted and/or boosted my comments. It's really cool when I'm able to recognize someone. Helps the sense of community here too imo and makes people more memorable.

PS: I can't remember if these posts in anyway get federated out to other platforms like mastodon or what not, but would still be interested in their respective answers too

If asklemmy is followed from Mastodon, the post is federated. However how discoverable it is depends on whether Lemmy lets you attach hashtags (and whether you've done so).