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Let’s all make a test, what does this post look like from your instances:

I agree that the downvotes on your posts in the Jerboa community are rather strange. My theory is that people who downvote your more controversial stuff subsequently go through your whole profile and just downvote everything regardless of content.

Strange, when I look at OPs history, I see quite a few in the negative. Maybe it’s because I’m from a different instance?

I hope you get better soon!

I never really understood it myself. But from what I’ve heard from people who are (or rather were) regular Twitter users, they like to follow celebrities or specific journalists (people who have actual interesting things to say). Those people are often not on Mastodon, though.

I think you make a great point. It’s easier to make an echo chamber in Mastodon/Twitter, since you mostly encounter people you already know (or are connected to via someone you know).

Not that echo chambers are impossible on platforms like Lemmy or Reddit, but I feel like the format of Twitter/Mastodon especially encourages it.

Does anybody know what happens to posts/comments belonging to the deleted account?

I used Jabber + Pidgin + OTR plugin for quite a while, also hosted my own Prosody server. But I never perceived it as a mainstream thing. Most people I knew used ICQ.

I have separate accounts for Lemmy and Pixelfed/Mastodon. Their content is so different, that it’s hard to find a unified way of interacting with it (following accounts vs. subscribing to and interacting within communities).

If you still prefer to combine both, you could make an account on kbin.social. With that you can follow both Mastodon and Lemmy content and get a “unified” UI. I cannot say how well it works though, since I haven’t tried it myself.

Definitely true for me. I was a pure lurker on Reddit. Now with Lemmy I try to engage a lot more. This place needs to come to life (and I feel like we’re doing well, so far).

I’m asking myself the same question. Do I need to make an account for every platform/service I’m interested in, or can I just use the same account for everything?

From what I’ve understood so far, the ActivityPub seems to support the integration of different platforms in theory, but there is currently no client software that can show me an integrated feed with everything.