“staplegunmans” are definitely my personal worst nightmare as well

No but I discovered this share sheet extension that does similarly: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1598706451

you’re right

Like Reddit, lemmy is based around communities and hierarchical comments (plus downvoting).

Mastodon, like Twitter, is a single timeline from people you follow (and sometimes people they follow and repost), as well as hashtag searching etc. It has no downvote option, but thanks to ActivityPub you can post to lemmy from mastodon and liking something is equivalent to an upvote.

just use mastodon

I thought Telegram pretty much was Discord but for people who prefer phones over computers.

Not a bad way to look at it, although I think one-on-one messaging is much more common on Telegram compared to discord, which has its “communities” thing as its main use case.

that’s why I trust it

that’s what you get for being mildly interested in something 😂

I was promised my giant tortoise would live until at least age 200 when I ordered him on amazon