A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
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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.
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.
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.
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 [email protected] ?
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?
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.
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.
Lemmy is just left wing politics in an echo chamber
If majority of Lemmy users come from .ml, then yeah. But there are also servers that do not care.
I'm an FC St. Pauli fan too..."Gegen Nazis," but also against the Communists too.
yeah what's even the difference between exterminating minorities and giving laborers ownership of the means of production anyway
Karl Marx, in theory is 100% correct, but humans will find a way to fuck it all up. The Communists were just as nasty, corrupt and power hungry as the Nazis.
Agreed. A lot of people who think Communism is the answer to Capitalism fail to recognize that both are just different sides of the same centralization coin. Sure the utopian vision of Communism is decentralized governance, but the minute there is one party with all the power, even with the intention of going full decentralization one day, never do. Why? Same reason as Capitalism…centralized power is a drug that humans cannot let go of. Communism is just what every capitalist wishes they had…complete control.
Karl Marx, in theory is 100% correct
No, he's really not. He's completely wrong. Life is about more than eating, sleeping and working. Communism is a good approach if survival of mankind is on the line, but not if we actually want to live our lives.
I’m an FC St. Pauli fan too…“Gegen Nazis,” but also against the Communists too.
Whenever someone sees people oppose nazis and are like "I also oppose commies!" I assume they only actually oppose communists.
I assume they are Nazis.
