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I started AP with Mastodon (well, GoToSocial). Microblogging is not my thing. I'm more comfortable in long-form, conversation forum than ADHD spasm posting.
Well, Mastodon seems designed to have people give up on it. Austere interface, short charlimit, no federation of reactions, no search bar. I hate it so much. I recommend one of the Misskey forks. It's more "modern" than any mainstream social media website now.
I have a GoToSocial server, which is pure AP, not Mastodon. Misskey is still a microblogging platform, right? One of the people I interacted with a lot when I was trying it ran a Misskey server, and she used it like a microblogging tool.
It's the modality of it. There's a category of servers that follow the Twitter model: people follow people, and posts are usually short and frequent throughout the day. Then there's the Reddit model: people join communities, and tend to do more periodic binge browsing.
Misskey - as I understand it - is a follow-the-person, shorter post model; the Twitter model. Lemmy models after Reddit.
I prefer the community model.
Interesting, I haven't seen the "pure AP" thing, will check it out. Yeah I'm not attached to any particular model of it, since there are pros and cons of each, and they have the same basic structure (communities on lemmy appear as users reposting whatever mentions them, you could represent imageboard communities the same way, etc etc). Hopefully people evolve beyond just imitating popular social media products.
I think there are several servers that don't try to match any particular dominant player.
It's really down to the follow-person or follow-community model. AP supports both, but I've seen few servers or clients that support both. Which should be possible; it's something that frequently annoys me about every Lemmy client I've tried: sometimes, there are people I'd like to follow, and get everything they post, regardless of community, in my feed.