For me, it's going to be Fediverse or nothing (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by Anarchotron666@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] CrowyTech@feddit.uk 8 points 1 week 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.

[-] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week 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.

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[-] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week 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.

[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week 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.zone 2 points 1 week 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.pub 1 points 1 week 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.

[-] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 week 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.

[-] CrowyTech@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Where can I read more about this? I'm not getting far with the link 🫤

[-] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 week 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.

[-] petrescatraian@mstdn.ro 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[-] underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week 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.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.pub 3 points 1 week 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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[-] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Same. I have no interest in corporate social media.

[-] Snoopy@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 :)

[-] megrania@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week 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.website 1 points 1 week 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.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] experiencetheworld@feddit.org 1 points 1 week 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.