I've recently jumped onto masto as well. It is far more effective for networking. Its horrible as a news/current affairs feed.

I find Lemmy and Masto complement each other well.

Piefed is supposed to be one that brings the two forms of presentation (lemmy style and masto style) together but you'd have to ask a piefed person how effective or useful that is.

I've tried Pixelfed as well, really nice people there. Lemmy is full of cynical bastards (like me), Masto seems full of really motivated and productive people, but Pixellfed I found only genuinely nice people.

On the downside, i found it a bit limited. I suppose because it doesn't really revolve around a social centre (lemmy's all and local feeds) like Lemmy does so I couldn't really orient myself very easily there. Maybe because its feed based and there was only one person I knew a little about there.