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So it's the same concept as reddit having subreddits?

If you're looking for a reddit alternative in the fediverse, I can't miss the opportunity to toot my own horn: I'm working on a federated link aggregator that you can try at https://littr.me.

Currently it's missing exactly the federation component, so people on Mastodon can't interact with it yet, but it's getting there. :)

This is neat. There is another one one there called Prismo, but I'm not sure if it's still being actively developed or how far the author got with it:

https://gitlab.com/prismosuite/prismo

There are multiple ones actually.

On prismo I haven't seen any work being done in a while (more than half a year according to the repo you linked :D). I think the dev got a bit discouraged after his instance had a data loss problem. It used to be at https://prismo.xyz but seems to be down.

One which is pretty active (development wise) is https://dev.lemmy.ml. But they don't have federation yet either.

Not really. If you are on multiple Mastodon/Pleroma/Pixelfed/Misskey servers, you have a separate account on each of them. Some servers are meant for certain topics (mastodon.art is mostly artists) and different servers will have different lists of banned servers (so you might be able to follow all your friends on Server A, but not import that full list into Server B).

People with multiple accounts with the same name/icons often call these accounts "alts" .. and it's kinda easy to create a fake alt for someone (although KeyBase supports mastodon so you can kinda setup your "identity" that way; although each individual server has to be added to the big Keybase list).

It's really more like old IRC/AOL chat rooms .. with threads.

It's more like a usenet/twitter hybrid than reddit.

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