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I still don't get this; who wants to log onto twitter and see reddit? Or log onto reddit and see twitter?
As somebody who never understood the appeal of twitter, I'm glad my Lemmy isn't clogged up with a bunch of Mastadon content, personally
edit: the likelihood that I'm missing some salient point here is high, so genuinely please educate me on what I'm not understanding
edit 2: Okay, I've read the replies and I get it a little bit more, especially the point about additional ease in growing the Lemmy userbase during this building phase. I'm not sure I'll ever really "get" the appeal, but you all have helped me understand the value to some degree, so thank you.
Mastodon is quite a bit bigger than Lemmy and if you make it easy to interact here some of the Mastodon users might decide to join Lemmy too. I'm kind of in the opposite situation, I'm on here and I don't have a Mastodon, but if I could see more of Mastodon from Lemmy I might decide I'm interested enough in that content to make a Mastodon account. But I never really got into Twitter, even if some form of a character limit would help improve my writing.
For me, this is the opposite situation. I like long texts that detail other aspects in a topic, the writer's intent, references, lists, etc. that make discussion matter more and hit its core aim rather than having a limited space where you can only vent your emotions in a few words or just simply talk about something in a limited, headline-esque urgency.
I think the character limit was increased a bit over the years but the short text culture persisted, even if some people try to use chain comments as a way of posting long discussion texts. The platform simply goads people into that style, which is antithetical to meaningful discussion.
Ditto