Fellow 'Fediversers,' what keeps you hanging on here despite the "FV" being a work-in-progress, with all its built-in, various bumps & difficulties to experience along the way?
"Sometimes there's a man... I won't say a "hero," because what's a hero? But sometimes there's a man who... well, he's the man for his time and place!" -- Sam Elliot (the Stranger) from the glorious The Big Lebowski
You know that classic quote about standing on the shoulders of giants (and pioneers)? Honestly, in so many ways, that's how I truly feel about the good ol' Fediverse.
So, to sum up-- who are YOUR heroes here, and what does keep you hanging on here, baby..?
EDIT: For people wondering about what kinds of 'bumps & difficulties' I've personally experienced, here's a tiny sampler:
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I'm not here despite what it is, I'm here because of what it is.
I can do no better than to second this sentiment.
I'd love to third it, but it would start to look like a reddit thread
This
Love
was going to write something but this sums up what I wanted to say better than I could say it. I also quite like it as it is. It can stay like this forever for my tastes. I don't want it improved to the level that im seeking something else.
Interactions feel genuine. I like talking to people here.
Can confirm. I am a human and I love human things such as... um... breathing air, and um...
Human Music
It is a great day to be a human, fellow human!
I humbly confess I never watched that show
one of those things that's quite funny and high production value but the fandom is largely obnoxious and some of the creators are jerks
it's also not everyone's style of humor. give it a shot sometime and see if it resonates though!
At first I also refused to watch since its animated and I thought it was childish, but then I learned that there are like a lot of dirty stuff and supposedly for adults, so, given how popular it became, I just had to watch it.
And its worth it. Yes, its weird af and I always feel so confused and something things just makes zero sense, but some stories are interesting. Never really got bored of any of it (although some episodes aren't really that great for a re-watch imo).
It can be brilliant, and I find it rare that it's any less than very good. It plays with scifi tropes (any and all tropes really), is very self-aware... I am sure it stands to be criticized, but I personally love the show. Apart from season 5, of course
I love that with shows anymore there’s always a pariah season, lol. Maybe I’ll catch it on tv one day.
Totallynotrobots
The people. Gotten to know a lotta lovely people here. Like you! Also the Lemmy community as a whole is nice. It's also a small cozy place.
Good to see you here!
I’m here because fuck Reddit and the US.
Just to be clear, what happened?
Why did we evidently lose your trust, if I may ask?
Trump threatened our countries sovereignty.
Yup.
It's strange to think that this only narrows it down a bit, lol. But yea, certainly fuck that
Lol you are asking as if you don't know the answer
Sorry, my telepathy couldn't overcome your background noise.
Buddy you gotta be living in a cave or delusional or in denial if you don't know what your countries reputation is and why
Buddy, that's an hilarious leap to make right there, in which I've talked about this stuff all over the place, already. Oh! But maybe you do require an apology? Right so, mate:
SO SORRY I FORGOT ABOUT THE ORANGEY-SPECIFIC BEE-ESS SPECIFICALLY DIRECTED TOWARDS CANADA THOUGH, BUDDY!
The relevant point being that that's already been spewed and sprayed almost everywhere, such that I didn't automatically remember CA's specific beef.
I know, I know... I'm clearly a terrible person.
FWIW, I'm GenX myself, BBS's all the way! :D
I miss the old forums.
The peak of the internet.
They had their day, and I enjoyed them, but one thing I love about the Fediverse experience (patterned after Reddit of course), is that one can sample and subscribe to a super amount of divergent sources, and have it all pulled together in to one stream.
Outside of specialty forums, plus the pleasure of hanging out with online chums for years at a time, I'd argue that this method is in fact more useful and generally superior.
I miss the hanging out with the same online mates.
It occured to me when I quit Reddit that I hadn't made a single friend on there in 10 years but made loads on the forums I used to frequent.
Haha, same. *sweat emoji*
I find the FV better in that regard though, perhaps because of the smaller userbase. So maybe size plays a role in these things.
Same age and feelings.
Here because its a great experiment and a reminder of the old internet that is otherwise mostly lost.
I'm a regular user of forums boards (modern ones like Discourse, but still) on which the interactions stayed mostly the same as 20 years ago... it feels close-knit, almost intimate. Conversations are usually well reasoned, if not as slow as they were back in the day -given that thread pages update on their own when a new message is posted, it's not as static as it used to be, and I think that's for the better, even though I am nostalgic of phpbb boards
i went to a forum shortly after the ban waves; meant for OF users and link dropping who are in the market of using hordes of accounts to earn money . apparently they have equally reported how heavy handed reddit has gotten in detecting people trying to "hide thier accounts IDentity, like fingerprinting"
My anger for the destruction of the old internet. My hatred of those who profit from aforementioned destruction. My pettiness for going against the current.
Pfft
I love the FV. No ads. No algorithm.
And that it requires a little effort means fewer dumbass jerks around.
Because fuck Reddit
The app is decent.
That's honestly 90% of it. If Reddit hadn't programmed their app and mobile website with their feet, I'd probably still be over there.
Use free app redreader or payed app relay for reddit 2 bucks a month
On PC Reddit enhancement suite is your friend..
The other day I was using incognito and went to Reddit what an eyesore so many promoted threads...my lord
Oh I don't even mind the algorithm. It's just so full of bugs.
I don't find that commercial social services are free of bumps and difficulties; they're just different bumps and difficulties. They variously want me to:
And people think picking a server to sign up or using an unpolished UI is a hassle? It's a small price to pay to avoid that load of crap.
I use Lemmy and Mastodon because independent services that interoperate are how I want the internet to work. I still use some of the big commercial services because people or communities I value are there. It's not all-or-nothing.
Strong disagree. I find that the learning curve is far bigger, more complex, yet also more subtle getting the 'full FV experience' than on Reddit. And I know a little something about that, having used my ~10yr experience there to create this WIP guide. Because most features or tips there are either still not available on the FV, or usually more complicated here.
Also, I've had a litany of issues using the FV, very briefly alluded to here:
https://piefed.social/post/1431056#comment_8685458
But the FV is the real future IMO, so I keep on keeping on, as well as keep generating 95% of the content for my community here.
The comment you linked to says
and I'm not sure what you're talking about. Lemmy and Piefed obviously interoperate; you're posting to ![email protected] from a Piefed account right now. It's a rougher experience trying to interact with forum-like software using blog-like software, but someone wanting that should probably just use two accounts.
"Not sure what I'm talking about?" Really?
So, according to the "Fediverse-Observer" (and similar services AFAIK), in terms of software, sorting by user-count, it seems the top four user-bases are:
Now ask yourself how many of those (plus others) are STILL largely unconnected in terms of the FV. See my point now..?
Nevermind. But, dude-- just because I started this thread up and made some vanilla, non-controversial statements, with no intention of specifically putting anyone down here, does not mean that I have any automagic responsibility to do others' homework for them, as in your case, evidently.
And, dude-- I've already offered something like 2doz personal replies here to the many, many comments and queries, upon this thread. Still, if you like, I suppose I could create a sort of an 'extra-guide adjunct' for people who clearly slacked on their homework, and for some reason want ME to make up for that.
Cool...?
Not relevant to the comment where you posted the following to a Lemmy community from Piefed:
Which looks to me like you're saying "Lemmy still doesn't connect to Piefed", but reading it three more times I guess it's possible you meant "Lemmy still doesn't connect to Mastodon".
If you meant the latter, then I do have some idea what you're talking about. It actually is possible to interact with one from the other with the constraint that Lemmy can only see Mastodon posts that tag communities. It's not a smooth experience at all to try to consume community-based content from Mastodon.
Wow... congratulations on representing EXACTLY the kind of weirdness and negativity I was alluding to, above. So have fun with that, mate! And I do hope others come to appreciate your particular sense of 'you-ness.'
Good bye.
Joined Lemmy because of the whole r€ddit API thing. I was only on there maybe a couple years at the end, so I had no real super attachment like people who have been there for years. Not much else to say.
Same.
Except my -oldest- account was well over 10 years old when the API thing shut down the Baconreader app for good. Joined the squabbles app which imploded when the owner decided to let 'free speech' be allowed and it basically turned into a hateful place in about two weeks . Then joined lemme.ee, which got shuttered a few months back. Joined sh.itjustworks annnnd, bam, here I am.
Though I'm only on here for about half hour or so a day due to deciding it was time to have less screen time in my life.
What does this tell us? Hate speech is the natural state of humans.
We need a replacement...
It sucks that lemm.ee was shuttered because that was where I first joined Lemmy as well before moving to whatever instance I'm on. Never heard of squabbles and don't wanna known what it's like Noe based off what say about it.
It mostly works well.
Plenty of good and garbage content. I want both.
I don't get the feeling there is a "motive" behind what I see when I am browsing content. It feels organic, like the old internet.
That's been the whole Internet for a good chunk of my life. This feels more comfortable to me than slick corporate sites.
Yeah, being terminally online on my 4th decade has taught me that the polish usually comes with caveats, such as a ™
I can share stories of my experience as an immigrant and almost never get a "go back to your country" comment.
Like if you tried that on reddit, jeez, they'll dig up that one comment you made against the administration in power and send you death threats and try to get the authorities to swat me. Also, they ban proxies, so all they have to do is make a false accusation and trick reddit admins to revealing IP to authorities. I use Tor on Lemmy, and, while its not foulproof, its another barrier to add more effort, and usually law enforcement is lazy and aren't gonna do much effort for a "lol donnie is so dumb" comment.
I feel comfortable here. Fediverse overall gives me an earlier Internet feel. Organic, but better. Maybe it feeds my nostalgia…
This is actually my third attempt at trying to stick to Lemmy since Reddit changed their API rules and gutted third party apps. My problem with Lemmy is pretty simple: it just doesn't generate content as fast.
But Reddit, Reddit I have really come to loathe, but after spending what's probably over a decade on it, it's hard to leave.
I hate that the most upvoted posts on Reddit are lowest common denominator jokes that can often be predicted at a glance. It used to be there was a good chance you could get something informative at the top, or a source if showing someone else's skill/talent.
I hate that the most common response to skill/talent being displayed is often a declaration of normalcy rather than praise for the skill/talent on display. For example, someone pulls off a skateboard trick, then you get a mini-thread of people saying variations of "I walked up the stairs this week," or I "tripped and fell leaving my house today."
I hate that Reddit has repeatedly narrowed what can show up in /all over the years.
I hate that Reddit does not allow me to block communities that show up in all.
I hate Reddit's algorithm, it is complete ass at predicting what I want to see.
I hate Reddit ads.
I hate that Reddit now has politics make up a huge chunk of /all these days.
I hate shitpost, circlejerk, and buddy subs. Subs where people encourage one another to just be stupid and asanine for fun. It is my firm belief that they played a major roll in the dumbing down of reddit comments over the years, as idiots were given the space to be idiots, normalized that behavior, and then it spread outside those subs to the other serious ones. And there's so many people that participate in it, and it caught on. I would put these subs to the torch if I had my way.
I hate the proliferation of certain cultural media fanboys. An example is EldenRing and FromSoftware fanboys. I have some 80 hours in Elden Ring, and played the first Dark Souls. They're not bad games. They're not great, either. And for whatever reason, they just seem to have a massive fanbase within Reddit, that the games genuinely do not deserve, leaking out of their sub and constantly posting elsewhere about the game or showing up in my /all since, to reiterate a previous point, Reddit won't just let me block that shit and save me the headache. For a while, Jujutsu Kaisen Fans and memes were the same as well, but it has since died down. But the point being that this kind of thing happens in the first place.
I hate how Reddit community has latched on hard with image replies, leading to a proliferation of non-comments that are nothing more than passing memes around. This is also something that I believe was fostered and encouraged within the shitpost/circlejerk/buddy subs.
So, when you ask why I still hang on to Lemmy, that's why. Because I fucking detest what Reddit has become. It is a shithole and a shell of its former self, and I desperately want Lemmy to be something better.
Gods, I do not miss the dumbass circle jerk comments from Reddit. "I also choose this guy's wife". Just. Go away. Blech.
I see them very very rarely here, but they're easy enough to ignore because it's maybe one comment, not 900
The original was funny, but the permanent rehashing of old references demonstrates that reddit stopped producing originality a while ago. Makes me think of Halo... sigh
And eventually someone adds "our wife"
Sort by top:24 hours. Set your client to auto-hide read posts. Theres lots of content, the “hot” algorithm just doesn’t work very well.
I'll give it a shot.
"It" isn't an entity of its own, just the sum of around 36k monthly active users.
![email protected] if you want to help promote it
![email protected] if you want to help communities grow
I got banned so no going back either way, im less you willing to shell out some money to evade it, if you wernt shadowbanned, im in a forum that does that too( this is mostly for people trying to earn money through the OF accounts. alot of posts are AI bot generated or ragebait.
I think for me its about being around fellow travelers. I've been on the internet for a while. Started commenting forums, then in political threads via craigslist. Then fark, digg, reddit. Users and commenters made those places, and when one went to shit, we just moved along to the next.
I have to say that I think I truly see the fediverse as a place to build a home. It meets my values where they are, and I don't have to make compromises.
And I think my fellow travelers would agree, if this place goes to shit, we'll vote with our feet.
I don't accept the premise of the question.
Excellent, and well done.
Your reward is in the mail.
No you didn't!
Oh, I'm so sorry, this is Abuse.
The issues get fixed, conversation happens, and there is content worth engaging in without feeling like an endless trap of doomscrolling.
All social platforms get worse all around us. Fedi isn’t perfect or drama-free but around here every third post isn’t a targeted ad that knows too much about me trying to make me feel guilty or inadequate.
This! And good content is not being washed away by clickbait
Plus, we're not being monetized and our content exploited, as with all the commercial social media platforms.
The worst aspects of the fediverse are really just the worst aspects of people rather than the worst aspects of people plus the worst effects of profit motives that you find on corporate social media. Also folks are really inclined to try to shun bad behavior rather than reward it with engagement that can directly lead to money for the poster
The vibe is a lot like "the old internet". Sure, you don't get a lot of responses most of the time, but those you do get are genuine and in good faith.
On reddit you can post the most innocuous thing and be met with ridicule or disdain. Most of the posts I made were commented on in a negative way. Even harmless things like "I found this funny product at the supermarket" in the appropriate subreddit was met with insults and a bunch of negative comments. Asking for advice on a popular advice subreddit got me a bunch of insults.
Here I have few answers, but those are genuine ones and so far they've been in good faith, no unprovoked insults, no sifting through someone's history to insult them based on a post from 3 years ago.
Expanding on this, because you have said almost the same I was thinking, I feel AI slop and bots aren't really a thing here, or they are easy to filter.
Yeah, I hear you on that one.
Overall, I find Reddit to be a fairly well-informed, left-leaning (which in any other 1st world country would simply be 'average centrist') base, but the place is indeed also chock-full of dude-bros who form kind of a vast, 'mean-girls' clique IMO. And they like nothing better than to punish people (or in their juvenile words "shit on") others for not conforming and communicating in modern 'Reddit-speak.'
So, all-in-all something of a fascinating psychological study in to how people self-guide in to becoming deliberate weirdos, haha. Anyway, yeah, sorry to hear you had to deal with all that toxicity, as a newcomer. :/
Absolutely. Reddit just gets so nasty. Lord knows WHY people feel the urge to siftthrough someone's history and bitch them out but they do and they're cruel. The sheer size of reddit gives them anonyminity but also reddit don't do much about it.
I like how personal it is here, people kinda know each other and it is like the olden days. It's a good community and you get friendly, genuine comments with far fewer bad apples. I'm really happy here
Because I'm a dirty commie who believes in the adage "give a brick, get a house".
Something that is built by a community will always survive longer than a corporate profit-motive alternative.
If one instance turns to crap, there will always be others to fill the gap. It's the same reason most FOSS software exists, because the community wants it too. As long as there are people that are enthusiastic about something, they'll keep it around as long as they have the tools to do so (source code). That is the ultimate power of Federation and of FOSS in general; it was built by humans, for humans for motives that are separate from profit.
If Gimp went away tomorrow, someone would fork it the very next day because they want to keep using it. If a Fediverse instance gets filled with nazis tomorrow, someone will create a new instance the very next day and people will move to that and then defederate from the hateful one.
I firmly believe that if humanity is to have a future, this is the way that it has to be, and I'm going to champion that mentality everywhere I can.
That essentially happened with Gimp, I believe the current development team has few if any ties to the original developers. It just didn't get forked. (I mean it did, but only to change the branding, it's a bit of a special case)
It was pretty rough for the first 2 years, but I feel like the overall popularity is growing, and in general it's attracting more of the type of person I'm interested in talking with.
Sure, even highly intelligent people can be jerks at times, and I'm no exception. But despite the friction that all discussion forum have, overall the community is just better for me.
I can talk about all kinds of different types of technical and artistic interests and when I do, people pop out of the woodwork to share connect and share their experiences. I am frequently informed by others here and I in turn can share my knowledge. That makes it worth it.
This is the answer I most relate to. I feel the same way.
I miss some subreddits I was part of in the old days that just aren’t replicated here but the fediverse is not as broad. The knowledge base that did move here feels deeper though. I just hope it doesn’t become an echo chamber because it is too narrow.
oh those same sub reddits, i assume large or moderate ones, are currently complaining how the bots are so much frequent now. plus reddits also auto-deleting comments or posts without significant reason. at least we surmise its due to right wing shift of the site. any significant pro-gaza, or anti-kirk or trump is sucsceptible to being deleted.
I feel like the amount of knowledge and expertise in the overall community is very high.
I also think this platform suffers from the same issue that is natural and normal in every other sharing platform: very few people contribute, most people just drink from the content hose.
the ban waves saw to that, a slight increase in lemmy users, i am disappointed how some lemmy instances tend to shut down due to lack of funding or admins.
It's good enough to keep me interested.
It's not good enough to replace Reddit yet, in the sense that I'm still active on Reddit. But there is enough worthwhile content here that I can check in each day and find some stuff that I enjoy. And that's enough to give me a reason to keep coming back.
The people here, and the vibe, is nicer. It's like reddit was 15 years ago. Reddit has just gotten worse over the years as it became more popular, and especially after went public. Many subreddits are plagued with engagement bots that ping you with lame questions to get you to respond. Post a comment even slightly controversial and you get reported and banned, even if it wasn't malicious. I just got tired of the shit show. I do miss the more robust traffic for niche subjects that reddit has, but not enough for me to go back.
it has accelerated this year alone, right when trumps started enacting his plans, plus MUSK is interfering with reddit. significant ban waves went after non-propaganda spamming that usually arnt the problem(of and link accounts), then it started banning people in large numbers, plus all thier old accounts were hit, and shadowbans have increased so much.
I'm banned from Reddit, but still want a similar fix like a drug addict.
But this drug is less toxic and only available in limited doses
Bingo. When I start seeing the same content I know it's time to log out.
Haha, gotta admit it's a very successful format (and drug) in that way. Vastly more effective and useful than most others, IMO.
My goal was to use something other than TikTok, facebook, etc.. Even with all its glitches and quirks, the FV has proven to be a great replacement for those corporate apps.
easier ability block right wing astroturfing, or shilling from politics.
And how do you do that on lemmy? I use the voyager client because it offers good filter options. But is mostly designed for mobile devices and not desktops. So if you know of a good way to filter out right wing crud then please tell me.
theres a block option in the settings you can block the instances or communities, from single users, i just block that account.
The shilling and foreign interference on reddit really scares me.
I enjoy the discourse and the memes here more than anywhere else in the internet
Wow. oO
Wow?
I mean... it just felt like high praise, indeed.
Makes me feel like... dang... somehow, we're on the right track! <3
because of what it’s not
What's wrong with the Fediverse exactly?
Yeah. I don't feel like I'm suffering for being on here rather than somewhere else
I don't recall saying something was "WRONG," but as with all such things, there will be issues of nuance.
So I've added a tiny bit more in the OP.
I'm on a Windows PC browsing with Firefox. How long you got to talk technical issues? This place is a Bulgarian clusterfuck. If this was a serious social media platform looking at an IPO, it would be in alpha.
Anyway, more right here than wrong for me. Been in tech for 30-years, handled Win 3.1, BASIC in the 80s, I can live with it. But it's a technical mess.
No government or corporation gives a shit about us, no bots!
The fediverse is a "work in progress", and that is fine. All the other social media sites are a "collapse in progress".
It is much more fun to be on a small and growing platform, than on a big and dying platform.
Bumps and difficulties - I haven't noticed any such thing.
I stay on Lemmy because it's similar to Reddit (topics based) without the need to follow anyone. I can't stand social sites where I need to follow people - Mastodon, Bluesky, and Twitter (always did) suck imho.
I've noticed all kinds of things, with a very brief sampler here:
https://piefed.social/post/1431056#comment_8685458
None of that is an issue for me.
Great!
My heroes? The instance operators and good mods, of course, along with everyone who contributes material.
Plus there’s more community when dealing with issues, such as problem instances and users. The fediverse doesn’t have the “old internet” feel, it’s still more restrained than that thanks to instance owners probably not wanting to host a lot of darker material thanks to the instances being under private ownership, but it feels more free than a place like reddit.
Because it is small enough.
i have honestly not noticed any difficulties
What else am I supposed to do? Use fucking Quora????
the memes and posts are much more often related to my interests than other social media
because i am a nerd just like everyone else here lol
My reddit account age was in the double digits before I closed it down to come here during the 3rd party apps/api fiasco.
It was a little difficult at first, but honestly it was really good for me to break away from so much phone usage and doom scrolling especially. My mental health improved a noticable amount. That first year or so here on Lemmy felt a little empty, but I think a lot of the people that migrated from Reddit realized that to have content one must make content. Personally, I'm far far more active here than I ever was on Reddit.
It's a cozy community 90% of the time, and it feels like a good home that's only getting better and richer with time.
I can’t say I’ve noticed any issues. What’s broken for you?
There've been any number of issues and annoying problems going back to my original instance, Lemm.ee, over 2yrs ago. Latest ones are my host losing useful functionality for roughly half the day, both today and on FRI. There's also chronic interconnection issues between instances across the FV. For example, last time I checked, the top four FV software bases still don't connect to the Lemmy / PieFed / etc side of things. Mastodon is just beginning to rudimentarily connect to PF, but IIRC Lemmy still doesn't.
Have you really never experienced or read about problems such as these..? oO
I guess I just care a lot less about federation between totally different kinds of social media than you do. Mastodon/Twitter style narcissism is something I’m fine not being exposed to. I also consider PieFed to be a completely failed dead-in-the-water project because requiring users to write an essay and beg for an account has got to be the absolute stupidest possible way to grow a non-established social network.
As far as federation delays, yes I do hear about them but as an end user, I just never felt any impact. I haven’t had any issues with conversations being interrupted or anything like that. Or if they were, perhaps I just assumed that the person I was talking to stepped away for a while because they had something more important to do than argue with strangers on the internet haha.
Nah, mate, on the contrary-- I was talking about highly-similar cases.
In any case, have fun! :D
Want to see the collapse of mainstream media. I’m thinking globally and acting locally.
That's a really good way of putting it. Facebook is terrifyingly powerful and damaging. Smaller is better IMO
No billionaire owners and algorithms.
Lack of real alternatives, I guess? This is the alternative to the other site, but I'd love it if there were similar sites with different focus and different people.
The Fediverse is a big place, with many parts that still don't communicate very well with each other.
You might be surprised...
To be honest, after some initial difficulty in grasping the concept of federation (which I certainly don't claim to fully understand even now) this place feels just as easy to use as Reddit.
I think that's partly because I almost exclusively used Reddit via the Sync app, and I now use Lemmy almost exclusively through Sync as well. The experience is basically the same, except that it's a bit quieter, but as someone else alluded to, that's maybe no bad thing as it means I spend less time here. Instead I just dip in and out, and that's fine.
the heros are all the mods and hosters of instances, period. it takes time and effort so thank you.
what keeps me here is really what keeps me away from centralized social media mediums.
Appreciate that a lot!
My own project is a fun hobby, labor of love, and a way to give back to the graphic novel creators, but yeah... it feels good to be thanked, here and there. 🥲
Thank you for that!
That's really nice of you thanks! I mod a few and it can be a lot of work.
People like you. Love your posts on ![email protected]
And you, matey, I ❤️ your tireless work on helping the FV grow. It is so appreciatied, over here.
I'm still browsing and participating on reddit once in a while, and let me tell you the atmosphere there is dank and vile. You get attacked for the smallest things, people are cynical and sarcastic and heinous.... this agression will not stand, man. Nothing in common with the reddit from 15 years ago. That would be Lemmy. Lemmy feels essentially like Reddit used to. With less people. I like most interactions here, the smaller scale helps and probably the fact that we're -actually mostly- humans. If and when my instance votes on the move to Piefed, I'll go there. It's still the threadiverse, free and diverse
Oy oy, don't forget us PIEFED USERS, too, mate....!!
I self host every fediverse thing I can and when I open it I know its mine and I can glance over at the machine running it all and see where it all is and that feels good enough to deal with whatever comes up. That said, these days its all pretty easy.
Right on!
It's a quiet life.
I can interact with actual people and not get swarmed with ads and botted traffic.
I ate a ban for "instigating violence"
Posts like this 👌
Banned from Reddit. Gave FV a try and like it.
Fear of the unknown
I'm a fan of Mbin, I like using it and enjoy being here. I don't really consider myself to be hanging in there at all.
It doesnt make sense to put in free labor (posting, commenting, sharing etc) for a commercial organization (reddit, instagram, etc). Using the fediverse makes more sense to me
I dunno where's a better place?