There's a good alternative called kbin that can federate with Lemmy and mastodon along with having it's own communities and etc. Its honestly pretty nice already but I think the UI definitely needs some work on mobile though. It's also being super slammed on the main instance, kbin.social, right now so the dev disabled federating with Lemmy temporarily.

[–] gravelsDrachma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

interesting, thank you thank you for the tip! ActivityPub (the rails all these apps run on) is cool as hell; i just checked and yes I can follow my account right here from my Mastodon. i'm from old Reddit though so the idea of following an account on a Reddit-like is still icky and new but i'll probably get used to it here in this new setting x3