I created a lemm.ee account, and I might just mainly go on there instead of this one (or .world).

.world is so unstable that at this point its future is uncertain and I am ready to completely migrate either to beehaw or to some other instance.

There is literally no public torrent tracker out there that has no issues...

Vivaldi has a bunch of stuff I like - tab stacking, tiling, a functional sidebar that is actually useful, and full-on UI customization.

The colors are not that great. It's like a beautiful city being covered in grey smoke.

One...Plus.

Going full circle.

Russian-language independent media says otherwise. Websites like VK and RuTube will now require Russian Email addresses like yandex and mail-dot-ru.

Who tf uses DA for furry porn? There are way better websites nowadays

Echo chambers are what happens often when you trust personalized algorithms. You pick specifically the things you agrree with, and then later you don't get exposed to things beyond your own worldview and interests. And recently, algorithms have been proliferating all over the internet and there's a lot of discouragement from using smaller services - a lot of it has to do with how the variety of content on the bigger social media networks is not yet replicated on smaller sites. The fact that smaller sites have now become usable thanks to Reddit and Twitter going down the drain makes me feel like on one hand I feel more free now because I can explore all sorts of sites and more people will be there, but on the other hand I am intimidated by the sheer amount of alternatives and my mind can't manage with all of them at once, so I minimize my general social media usage. The fediverse is, in a way, consisting of "novel unique websites coded manually by hobbyists running servers for free".

The same problem I have when it comes to Mastodon/Misskey/Firefish - I feel like everything is so fragmented, like I have to jump from one place to another. Thankfully, this applies significantly less in the "threadiverse" (Outdated name, we definitely need a new one) because there aren't 6 different platforms and tens of different forks, and Lemmy and Kbin are pretty much 100% compatible with one another, unlike those moments where you can't see Mastodon re-toots on Firefish a lot of the time or sometimes accounts' posts appear much later in a different instance. We don't need to worry about that here.

There is a variety of instances for Firefish, such as kitty.social. One weird thing I notices is that the Firefish logo is not consistent across all instances. ThatOneCalculator, creator of Firefish, was recently involved in some drama, so some instance owners put an alternative logo instead.

I like Firefish, I am on a Firefish instance myself, and I feel really good about it. It's fun to use and it federates with Mastodon most of the time, and with Misskey some of the time. Unfortunately, microblogging on the fediverse is not as straightforward as forums on the fediverse, as they're a lot more fragmented and there are 5 or 6 different platforms instead of 2 like we have here.