You got it right, you can interact with Lemmy from Mastodon and vice versa but it is limited to certain things.

Also not all instances are federated with each other which can be a nuisance to keep track of.

You can probably start on mastodon were people have more casual conversations. You will probably find someone with your same interests. Enjoy your journey on the fediverse!

Australia, they are all just Koala friendly.

no worries

Yeah, that’s the idea.

I do prefer plain text as well, and I have tried Org mode, just not all the way. So I wil eventually give it a full go. Thank you!

Yeah, some clients allow you to compose in html so I just copy paste from my markdown editor. But it would be nice to skip the copy paste part and just to parse the markdown directly on the client. Also the markdown renderer fails, the markdown is already human readable. So that would be cool.

Not a scam but scumbag behaviour.:

My grandmother was offered a expensive credit line by the bank very insistently on the phone after they solved other of her problems. She obviously fell for it and had to pay a shit ton of interests.

They are verbose and pushy towards elderly people because they know they are prone to accept thing they do not need/want.