if you go to your preferences, you can get a more famililar reddit look and feel, by adding the top bar, and a few other tweaks.
i think that ultimately it wont (shouldn’t) matter what ‘window’ you look through into the fediverse - correct me if i’m wrong. I like kbin a lot, but i’, looking at beehaw. i was asked not to join lemmy.ml because of server load issues.
i’m not sure how mastodon fits. i guess that’s a federated app - but is seems entirely seperate.
there is a bit of learning curve.
I found a couple of things :