Lemmy.world and Connect have been working great for me on multiple Android phones.
I use connect for lemmy, i didn’t know it has Mastodon integration
Lemmy and Mastodon are partially interoperable. Mastodon users can post to Lemmy by tagging a community, and can reply to Lemmy posts. Mastodon users can follow Lemmy communities, but the UX is pretty rough. Lemmy users cannot follow Mastodon users.
It doesn’t. (Connect for Lemmy is still a great app though.)
App wise I recommend just using the progressive web app (install website as app). It works very well, and you always get the latest updates.
For the server, find one that targets one of your interests.
Dunno how to answer your question BUT X-twitter was always political. It’s worse now because of the upcoming elections, AND if Elon is actually going to be a part of the government it’ll be a raging dumpster fire. Good luck, OP.
wetdry.world (/hj)
I’m on a local Scottish instance called
glasgow.socialbecause the admin is relaxed about free speech without allowing it to become a total cesspool. Almost got kicked offtreehouse.systemsbefore I migrated because I suggested political violence was bad - even if left wing people were doing it.I’d go for stability. Smaller instances can be slow. If you want fast load times use a bigger one, like mastodon.social
Tusky is a great droid app. And I would suggest one of the big official instances. If you hate it you can transfer your account/profile to another one. Your posts don’t transfer though.
noc.social is a small but quick server. Don’t use Android so I can’t speak to that.
And I will say that I’ve got much better engagement on Mastodon than I ever did Twitter. The people overall are kinder and more thoughtful. It’s more likely that the disrupters just aren’t there yet. Almost everyone I had followed on Twitter is on Mastodon though. May not be the same for everyone.
If you like Lemmy.World, why not set up the account on Mastodon.World? It’s the same admin/ops team.
I second moshidon, although I’ve just started using phanpy, which has some cool innovations. There is not nearly the wealth of Mastodon apps that we have here on Lemmy.
The benefit to finding a instance that somewhat fits your interests/ideals is that your local feed will be useful. On a huge instance it really is not.
If you don’t want weird political shit, avoid the largest ones, like .social.
I am on mastodon.art which has most of the fascist distros blocked and I use Tusky. I love it.
Mastodon also has great filtering tools and temp muting so you can curate your experience pretty tightly too.
Just as a heads up: .art also blocks a lot of the pro-trans and/or furry instances as well.
How do you find out what mastodon instances block others?
In the “about” page linked at the bottom of the instance there is a section for “Moderated Servers” which may have a list of blocked and limited servers, along with reasoning.
Try Bluesky
I don’t know about servers but moshidon is great
pick your poison here: https://joinmastodon.org/
I recommend against mastodon.social, it’s slowly turning into the old twitter.
it’s slowly turning into the old twitter.
How?
Define ‘weird political shit’. Because Mastodon is also full of weird political shit. The election years are unbearable.
Mastodon is also full of weird political shit.
You have been friending the wrong people.
Yeah why would you go on a microblogging platform if you didn’t want to see “weird political shit”?
Because not everyone is obsessed with politics and there is actually a lot of cool non-political content to enjoy. Although during some periods it’s better to stay away from the main feed.
