Comments on Mastodon tag the users in the thread while comments in Lemmy somehow work without this. Comments on Lemmy are for everyone while replies on Mastodon are only shown to followers of the OP.

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm just not sure the two use cases meld very well. Mastodon tends to be "reply and fly", whereas Lemmy can get into discussions.

I don't know why that is. Maybe it's the twitter character limit that's been baked into people even though it's not a thing on mastodon (might depend on instance).

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s because they are simply built for different things, Mastodon for microblogging and Lemmy/Piefied for forum type discussions. Nested threads don’t exist in Mastodon, so it’s hard to have a back-and-forth exchange without it looking like a mess.

[–] FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

I kind of see Mastodon as a place for announcements or invitations to see something elsewhere, like Lemmy or some other random websites.