To be clear, this creates a separate Pixelfed account, it just uses your Mastodon info for quick profile setup and authentication.
Do people these days still know O’Reilly books? I’ve seen a few posts over the past couple years that are essentially asking “how did you figure out how to program without Stack Overflow?”
Neither of those assertions are true, I don’t think you’re arguing from an informed position.
I’m more comfortable with macOS than Windows and find many of the UX patterns on Windows to be grating. It doesn’t mean Windows is insane, just that I’m more accustomed to the macOS patterns.
FWIW the Dock can be hidden, and the menu bar at the top can hide as well when an app is in full screen mode.
To answer your title question, plenty of people do. I follow my friends there and have lots of conversations. Mastodon doesn’t have a lot of famous people, but I didn’t really use Twitter to follow famous people either.
You might want to try FediFinder (when it’s working, they are dealing with Elon’s changes like the API shutdown) to find your Twitter follows on Mastodon.
It’s not the best experience, but it works. It also means that Mastodon users can boost Lemmy posts and other Mastodon users may wind up commenting.
I follow a couple Lemmy communities from Mastodon. If you create a Mastodon account and search for @technology@lemmy.world
you can subscribe to new posts, which get boosted into your feed. You can upvote by favoriting a post and you can reply from Mastodon and it’ll show up on Lemmy.
I can also follow Lemmy users, like by searching for mxwarp@lemmy.world
and your posts (but not comments) will show up in my feed.
@george
@midwest.social