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.
I don’t have a solution but I’ll offer this workaround: instead of “search web” use the “look up” option, then scroll to the bottom and there will be a “search web” option that does respect your default browser
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.
but presumably you’re getting social assistance, no? it’s sort of like a Basic Income