coldsideofyourpillow

Sometimes I think it would be best if we could have some kind of read-only instance people can create an account on and get stuck in first, then choose an instance to sign up to once they understand it. The instance would be locked down so they couldn't create any communities.

I believe lemmy.myserv.one is what you're looking for.

First thing you'll learn here: out of the 50K monthly active users, this guy makes up 1K of them.

It's basically the same as Reddit karma, it's just the sum of upvotes+downvotes you got

There's one difference: boosts give you +2 reputation points.

Mastodon, via jorts.horse. I use it mainly to shitpost, and occasionally catch up on news.

PeerTube, via spectra.video. It was part of an effort to switch away from YouTube, but due to the abysymal discoverability, I am forced to concur that it hasn't been doing well as a replacement. I now just use Grayjay to see videos, regardless of platforms.

For now, I use Lemmy via lemmy.cafe. However, when PieFed gets a stable app, I plan to switch over to it, probably via feddit.online.

Maybe I'll try out Loops when it gains federation support.

Personally, I just pirate the FLAC files from RED, and play them with VLC. Several advantages to this:

• Spotify is owned by a shitty, greedy company with shitty, greedy practices.
• Spotify enforces DRM on almost all its media.
• FLAC files have superior quality as they are lossless
• I can play them offline without a subscription
• Downloads are pretty much instant, as private trackers have insane seeder to leecher ratio

I'm sorry if this isn't the response you're looking for, but as other people have already given recommendations for alternatives, I thought I would just give my 2 cents.

Wake up babe, Fediverse Chick just got a friend!

I don't care however convincing the bot is. I go to the fediverse to interact with genuine thoughts from genuine people, not just fancy autocompletion machines.

What? Its evolving!

Accelerate turned into exelerate!

This is not enshittification, this is evolution. "Exelerates" is superior to "accelerates".

Did they fucking stutter? Exelerates.

You data horders are insane. I love it.

Aside from the fact that this is not the correct community for such a question, I'd recommend checking out Privacy Guides to get started on your privacy journey. Check out their recommendation for e-mail providers.

Keep in mind that Proton has recently made some dubious political statements and decisions, and I wouldn't endorse a product by such a company. The product is still good, but the trustworthiness of the parent company has recently been debatable.