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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.
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.
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.
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.
Post images you like and/or find meaningful to you.
Took a good picture? Post it.
Took a bad picture, but it's of your cat? Post it anyway.
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
There are a lot of artists on pixelfed, but lack of an algorithm makes finding them very difficult
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Where can I read more about this? I'm not getting far with the link 🫤
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
was dead
20k MAU can feel pretty dead, even 100k can if none of them are sharing things you're interested in.
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.
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.
Unfortunately exactly my experience :( And nobody saw (or I guess liked/interacted with) my posts either, so it felt pointless.
Hello! and welcome :D
There's tons of great communities and instances. I got a pretty big list, but:
Communities WARNING: b i g
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
Also, why not point to the pinned post of !communitypromo@lemmy.ca ?
I just took it from fedibridge. I didn't know about that community's post
Thanks! Subscribed to some communities. Can I somehow subscribe to the whole instances?
Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
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.
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.
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.
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.
Same. I have no interest in corporate social media.
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?
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.
I hear you on the scroll less. Time limits help me to not be obsessively scrolling. Emphasizing quality over quantity also helps. Cheers!
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.