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.

  • brown_guy@lemm.eeEnglish
    31·
    9 hours ago

    I have started to like Lemmy too. I made an account here because I was IP banned in reddit for expressing my opinion on gender neutral laws in my country

    That’s the worst part of reddit. You can’t say something which go against their ideologies. Although I still want my reddit account back because fediverse isn’t popular in my country and there aren’t much relevant subs for me in here

  • Cătă@mstdn.ro
    9·
    1 day ago

    @Anarchotron666

    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 […]

    I’m assuming you previously used Facebook mostly, right? If so, there’s also a Facebook alternative called Friendica, with pretty much the same core functionality as Facebook (sans Marketplace). Besides that, you can also format your posts and comments, add titles to them, get a dislike button and customize your experience more than you could do there. Plus you can also follow Lemmy communities straight from there, as well as Mastodon accounts, Flipboard publications etc.

    Check out friendica.world to try it out.

  • megrania@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    132·
    1 day 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.

    • EnsignWashout@startrek.websiteEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      I’m with you.

      Thankfully, corporate bullahit isn’t the only way to create a discovery algorithm.

      I expect that we will have a diverse set of discovery algorithms available to opt into here, in a few years.

  • CrowyTech@feddit.ukEnglish
    86·
    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
      8·
      1 day 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.

    • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      31·
      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
        6·
        2 days 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.

          • CrowyTech@feddit.ukEnglish
            2·
            1 day ago

            I’m just not sure what to upload. I seldomly uploaded photos on Facebook, before I came off it, and that’s with friends and family. Does Joe public want to see what I’ve been doing?

            Maybe I’m not the right audience for pixelfed

        • arakhis_@feddit.orgEnglish
          4·
          2 days 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

          • Muyal_Hix@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 day ago

            There are a lot of artists on pixelfed, but lack of an algorithm makes finding them very difficult

            • arakhis_@feddit.orgEnglish
              1·
              19 hours ago

              yeah we need eu to help us get fediverse goin with european servers and more ethical algorithms for such platforms that rely on it

              or how else are you navigating pixelfed to find the good stuff… its really frustrating to stare at low quality posts and be somewhat stuck with those… maybe theres other reasons in UX also contributing to this frustration

    • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
      16·
      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
        15·
        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
          5·
          2 days 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.

          • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
            2·
            12 hours ago

            Or maybe using the canonical URL meta tag? I don’t know if it works across different domains.

    • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
      10·
      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
          3·
          2 days 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.

  • Trihilis@ani.socialEnglish
    39·
    2 days 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.

    • SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org
      1·
      5 hours ago

      I may sound old but I don’t get what’s peculiar about discord. From the little I know is like a forum? with calls&messaging functionality.

    • ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      18 hours ago

      I manage a community on discord and see it going down the aggressive monetization route day by day. Also looked at Matrix, but the basic tools to support my community just aren’t there. I’m hoping the next two or so years produces an alternative rich chat/voice/video platform.

      • Trihilis@ani.socialEnglish
        1·
        12 hours ago

        The problem with Matrix to me is that it is simply too unstable. I can open it up on any device and half the messages won’t load or are corrupted. Media won’t show at all. In contrast Lemmy has been super reliable and “just works”, so going from reddit to lemmy was no problem at all. And the communities are great too.

        I just want working voice chat and group chats.

        The entire streaming i don’t really care about. There are other apps for that.

        But yeah as it is I’m probably better off using discord until the enshittification is so bad no one wants to use it anymore.

    • Liberteez@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      21 hours ago

      I keep a lot of personal notes in discord like it’s a journal. Is that now a bad idea? I’ve loved discord for years but what’s happening on Reddit currently scared me off that platform already, just like Xitter

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
      8·
      2 days 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.

  • underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    241·
    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
      10·
      2 days 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.

      • 0xD@infosec.pubEnglish
        6·
        1 day ago

        Unfortunately exactly my experience :( And nobody saw (or I guess liked/interacted with) my posts either, so it felt pointless.

      • small44@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        1 day ago

        No it’s not you just used to be fed content by algorithmsbor just follow populat content

    • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      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
        82·
        2 days 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.

      • small44@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        1 day ago

        79 millions pictures , i don’t undetstand how you can’t find any content that is interesting

        • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          1 day ago

          One of the big issues that I personally had with Pixelfed is that content discovery is kind of difficult on the platform. Sure, there’s probably some pictures out there of the obscure shit I’m into. However, all I ever found on pixelfed was like landscape/nature photography and a little bit of porn

            • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              12 hours ago

              Yeah and none of those are my niche. Not to mention, content discovery is still difficult even if you personally see things you’re interested in lol

              • small44@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                8 hours ago

                Maybe the problem is that your interests are so limited and not the lack of diversity of content. Or you just want to be fed content by algorithms and top content pages. I discover content that interest me daily. You reminds me of people saying it’s hard to didcover music on bandcamp although there is like 5 ways to find music on bandcamp

                • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  11·
                  8 hours ago

                  Wow. Not even an ad hominem, literally just blind judgement. You have no idea what interests me, and no way to tell how I have interacted with Pixelfed. You have no concept of the idea that some people are just not into the things you enjoy.

                  Do you have any idea just how much content is out there in the world? You could browse through a petabyte of data and it could all be boring drivel to you because there are zettabytes of data out there in the internet. Some of it is bound to bore any random individual. That doesn’t preclude me from enjoying the entire rest of the internet.

                  You remind me of people in red hats.

  • Snoopy@piefed.socialEnglish
    261·
    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
    22·
    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

    https://lemmy.ca/post/40160493

    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
    12·
    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.

  • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
    6·
    2 days 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?

    • brown_guy@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      What do you want to see, that you haven’t found on Fedi?

      For me it’s mostly the regional subs I had in reddit, those aren’t here. And I also wanted Lemmy to some communities like which are relevant to my studies and work

      • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
        2·
        5 hours ago

        smae! there wasn’t a community for my town, so I made one. Also I’m really into photobiomodulation, made a community, but it was on kbin which frittered away, so now I have to remake it. We’re building a whole new thing, new culture, new communities. No better time for it, with all the chaos, let’s make a shiny new garden here, tend it, watch it grow.

        • brown_guy@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          Yeah. But I can’t create communities now because my account is new so I gotta wait

          Y’all are making communities for town tho? Man, i can’t even find an active community of my country 😂

    • Anarchotron666@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      2 days 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.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    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.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      12 hours ago

      I’m an FC St. Pauli fan too…“Gegen Nazis,” but also against the Communists too.

      Whenever someone sees people oppose nazis and are like “I also oppose commies!” I assume they only actually oppose communists.

    • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      103·
      1 day ago

      yeah what’s even the difference between exterminating minorities and giving laborers ownership of the means of production anyway

      • Gammelfisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        54·
        1 day ago

        Karl Marx, in theory is 100% correct, but humans will find a way to fuck it all up. The Communists were just as nasty, corrupt and power hungry as the Nazis.

        • ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          32·
          20 hours ago

          Agreed. A lot of people who think Communism is the answer to Capitalism fail to recognize that both are just different sides of the same centralization coin. Sure the utopian vision of Communism is decentralized governance, but the minute there is one party with all the power, even with the intention of going full decentralization one day, never do. Why? Same reason as Capitalism…centralized power is a drug that humans cannot let go of. Communism is just what every capitalist wishes they had…complete control.

        • Realitätsverlust@lemmy.zipEnglish
          34·
          1 day ago

          Karl Marx, in theory is 100% correct

          No, he’s really not. He’s completely wrong. Life is about more than eating, sleeping and working. Communism is a good approach if survival of mankind is on the line, but not if we actually want to live our lives.