I would like to tell you about LEMMY aka KBIN which is the new "the Mastodon version of Reddit" federated service. I think it's PRETTY NEAT.

First, let me tell you how to get Into Lemmy:

Just go to this website
https://beehaw.org/
and start reading.

That's it! A nice thing about Lemmy is you don't *really* need to be logged in to use it. Since the focus is communities rather than personal feeds you can just click around logged out until you want to comment.

What if you want to comment?

Beehaw - Aspiring to be(e) a safe, friendly and diverse place.

Lemmy

I think the best way to comment on Lemmy is to have an account on one of the Lemmy-frontend instances.

I don't know of a better way to do this right now than to look under "Popular" (not under "Recommended") on https://join-lemmy.org/ . lemmy.blahaj.zone seems like a good default instance for queer shitposters. Alternately, Beehaw itself might be okay to sign up on (tho there's a wait).

Alternately alternately, you CAN post to a Beehaw/Lemmy thread from Mastodon, but it's a little awkward:

Lemmy - A decentralised discussion platform for communities

Lemmy

@mcc 90% of my interactions with reddit were up/downvoting, which doesn't seem to be possible from Masto? unless favorites get converted to votes lol I could work with that, can't find anyone saying that though
@modulusshift Correct, voting seems to only be possible from a Lemmy or Kbin.
@mcc @modulusshift I believe, though I might not be correct, that favourite = upvote = like. There is no analogue for downvotes in Mastodon but "dislike" does exist in activitypub and I think that's what is used.