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.

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[–] underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 4 days ago (12 children)

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.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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.pub 6 points 3 days ago

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

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[–] Snoopy@piefed.social 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 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.com 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

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

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 days ago

Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in

[–] experiencetheworld@feddit.org 12 points 4 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.

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