So I’ve tried Mastodon, Pixelfed and didn’t like them. Mastodon is nice if you wanna ”tweet”, but that’s not for me. Pixelfed was dead.

I quit Meta because of tech bro fascism, and hated Twitter even before it was X because, let’s face it - nobody has ever changed their opinion on anything because of a Twitter conversation (I know I’m exaggerating, to get my point across). I was in Reddit for a few weeks, and the conversations there seem mostly friendly and constructive, but I decided I don’t want to have anything to do with social media corporations. Besides, I noticed I could scroll endlessly. And that’s not good for me.

Lemmy seems nice. There are still some topics I’m interested in that don’t have active communities, and I’m still learning on how to have my feed from multiple instances. But still, this is the way to go for me.

Against algorithms, against fascism, for free internet. Thanks for coming to my boring Ted talk and have a nice day.

  • megrania@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    Meh … I wish there was a middle ground. Non-corporate, yet effective. Unfortunately, the Fediverse is only the first.

    Discovery algorithms can be great, if applied with care. And I really think ActivityPub is not very effective at showing interesting stuff, while from a user perspective it’s super intransparent. Personally I’d prefer a centralized user experience to the Fediverse fragmentation any day … I guess I’m really only here because I’m fed up with corporate bullshit.

  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    For some reason I feel like all of these things need to be three word phrases so this two word one, I must change it to “Alles Gegen Nazis”

          • Wanpieserino@lemm.eeEnglish
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            19 hours ago

            Tankies go to .ml while liberals go to the other spaces. You don’t really interact with eachother, there’s several types of leftists etc.

            I’m banned on several ml’s and several liberal’s.

            They do not like people to talk back.

            They moderate the places so that it works as an echo chamber. Mainly for leftists. Not many right wing people are coming towards Lemmy.

            It’s pretty silly, Lemmy is at one hand designed so that everyone can see eachother’s content and opinions.

            But at the other side, the spaces are moderated so that only their own opinions are allowed.

            So there’s a lot of polarisation instead of compromise.

            Then you end up with extremists having power that wrecks havoc.

            Compromise is the enemy of extremists. They love it that we separate ourselves so easily.

    • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      19 hours ago

      I guess you’re getting downvoted by those offended. It absolutely is.

      Note: I am left, communist in fact, but the way political topics are discussed is a clear doomer circlejerk. I’d love to at least see more variety over “Trump is stupid, Elon is mad, senators are bootlickers, death to Nazis, we’re all gonna die”. Like, yeah, we got it and we know it. What next? Any political action, maybe?

      • Wanpieserino@lemm.eeEnglish
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        18 hours ago

        Believe it or not, but I also am a leftist. Social democrat.

        I say a lot of bad stuff though. Like: old people that did not have kids, should have less pension and use the money they have been saving up by not having kids.

        This is seen as insane, but… old people are the wealthiest class in most societies.

        Yes there are exceptions and these people need help. High minimum pension for sure. They need a decent life.

        But why would I want someone who didn’t even have a kid to replace themselves as productive entity to gain a fantastic passive income on top of their already passive income generating assets?

        a compromise would be something as simple as: retired person above age 65 gets +amount of euros per working child in insert home country.

        It would incentivise having kids.

        The reaction I get usually is that it’s inhumane, that people are seen as production houses only, that people don’t wanna be born… A lot of doomer stuff to be honest.

        It would be fun if there’s a place where you can only deny an idea if you can replace it with your own solution to the issue. In this case “aging population” (popular issue in Belgium right now)

  • Trihilis@ani.socialEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’ve already settled on making lemmy my new home a long while ago. I like it here and there is more than enough engagement.

    What i can’t really find an alternative for is discord… it’s going through the “enshittification fascism techbro” phase.

    I tried matrix but honestly it sucks, Its so incredibly buggy it’s barely even usable. I’m still willing to give it a try since it seems very promising but the instability is a big downside.

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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      1 day ago

      What exactly do you need from a Discord replacement?

      There’s a LOT of options, with varying features so if you don’t need certain things it gets a lot easier to suggest what might work.

  • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
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    1 day ago

    If you want for something here, it’s a new place, make it. We’re all over here building a new way to do this thing, and everyone’s input is important. What do you want to see, that you haven’t found on Fedi?

    • Anarchotron666@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Actually since I quit Insta etc. I’ve been pretty happy about leaving social media. Tried Bluesky also, but like Mastodon, the Twitter-kind of social media is not for me. Reddit felt helpful and people seemed nice. Right now I don’t feel like I need anything new. I hope Lemmy will be enough for me. I’m also trying to scroll my phone less.

      • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
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        1 day ago

        I hear you on the scroll less. Time limits help me to not be obsessively scrolling. Emphasizing quality over quantity also helps. Cheers!

  • underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Pixelfed has more than 100,000 active users, about 5 times what it was 6 months ago, so I wouldn’t really call it dead. And with the fediverse, pixelfed and mastodon can talk to each other, so even on less active platforms you can connect with millions of other people. Most of the accounts I follow on pixelfed are from mastodon.

    • Coyote_sly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Discovery in Pixelfed fed is absolute and utter shit, though. It doesn’t matter if it’s there if you can’t find it…and mostly you can’t find it.

    • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      was dead

      20k MAU can feel pretty dead, even 100k can if none of them are sharing things you’re interested in.

      • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
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        1 day ago

        what are you interested in finding that you aren’t? build it, put it up, ask questions. We’re all here on the frontier building what we want.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Given all you have tried the only thing more I could say is trust cafe by the wikipedia guy. Unfortunately its not federated but it does have this neat thing where you can rate everything. Its basically like nuanced subscribe and block. You rate things between zero and 100 and I think zero would effictively be the same as blocking (which you can still do) and 100 would be the same as subscribing (which you can still do). Everything by default starts at a rating of 50. So its like you can be. mmmm. I like this guys post I will move him to 60. Or this guy seems a bit annoying I will drop him to 40 for now. Then over time the blocks and subscribes come out naturally.

  • Snoopy@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Yes Lemmy communities are nice but you will notice quickly that there are part you may want to avoid. So each communities, even if they may have the same name offer a different experience. It’s all up to the mod team 😅

    Btw, there are other software part of the forumverse as Mbin, NodeBB and PieFed that offer a slightly different experience and UI too

    Welcome and enjoy :)

  • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Hello! and welcome :D

    There’s tons of great communities and instances. I got a pretty big list, but:

    Communities WARNING: b i g

    Memes

    Software

    Politics

    Casual

    Knowledge

    History

    Animals

    Art

    PS: Since you’re anarchist [i assume?] check out https://slrpnk.net/ and https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/

    Glad to have you here :p

  • experiencetheworld@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Some platforms are dead but we can change that. If more people post on a “dead” platform it will get alive. I also feel that some communities are missing but we can also change that. If you scroll endlessly then maybe try to be on maybe just some social media platforms. I really like Lemmy and hope you will also like it in the future.

  • CrowyTech@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m hoping Lemmy grows more so that the niche communities (that were still relatively active on reddit, even for their neichness) can start to have regular threads going.

    What I’d also like to see is posts that I can spend 5-10 minutes in because they have more comments than the ~5 we have now.

    • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      19 hours ago

      Yeah, every time I see people saying that they like the amount of users now just makes me think “hmmm must be nice that all of your particular niches and tastes are accounted for”. It’s pretty silly to be so anti growth for this place anyway. Even on Reddit, you literally have a choice to take part in the bigger ‘default’ subs or find a smaller one if that suits you. And I like choice.

      This place still has a long way to go IMO. I’m starting to resort to lurking chat / ask style communities more just for something to do around here and even there, it’s not quite as engaging or active as it should be. As a humble user, sometimes I don’t have something particular in mind that I want to see. Sometimes I just want to bed rot and scroll and read people’s stories and discussions, maybe give my two cents if I feel so inclined. And there isn’t really that here yet because once you’ve checked AskLemmy or whatever, you’ve already seen 90% of the content for the next week.

    • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I really wish more people had taken on the “Community Ambassador” work that I’ve done for https://fediverser.network/. It could be really helpful in creating a focal point for everyone that wanted to help the migration of people interested in a specific niche.

        • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
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          1 day ago
          • Sign up to Fediverser
          • Search for communities for your interests.
          • The community should be associated with a subreddit. If it’s not, you can make a suggestion for the change.
          • Apply to become a Community Ambassador. I’ll approve it. Once you are approved, you will be able to do the following:
            • See the posts from the subreddit that is associated to the community.
            • Send DMs to people on Reddit, inviting them to join Lemmy and your community
            • Add other sources of contents (RSS feeds)

          There were more things that I had planned, such as the ability to do one-click repost of interesting links, but I didn’t get to it because that would mean effectively that I would have to turn the fediverser site into a an alternative Lemmy frontend.

    • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
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      2 days ago

      The biggest issue of community growth is the lack priority in search engines. If you ask a question on lemmy, stackoverflow, and reddit at the same time, you will get the two latter choices first even if the lemmy post has a better answer.

      Either lemmy is not prioritized because of the age of the domain, or less visitors, but I think it’s purposely done. There are usually no ads on lemmy. Google prioritizes sites that use their products.

      • Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I think, as well as the issues you mention, another issue might possibly be duplication. Historically, search engines penalise duplicated content, even across different domains and federation kind of bakes that in.

        • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
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          1 day ago

          That’s a great point.

          Search engines should fix this for federated websites if they still want the best search results.

          For a solution now, I wonder if a 307 (Temporary Redirect) status code, redirecting to the original instance post, could work for search crawlers.

    • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I just try to actively contribute. Especially when I’m debating whether I want to or not.

      I don’t really enjoy posting or taking pictures, but I’ve been to around 11 countries and have slowly been uploading to Pixelfed just to contribute to the community.

      • CrowyTech@feddit.ukEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Pixelfed is the one I need to learn to use, I never did Instagram so never know what images to post, or who I’m bothered about following erc.

        • arakhis_@feddit.orgEnglish
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          1 day ago

          we need more artists on pixelfed. the insta artists are on the one side extremely exploited by meta but on the other side theres so much that do it for their small artist bag…

          idk clout is weird… how would one solve that with no revenue, maybe like personal sponsors based on reach will remain? idk