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.

  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    28·
    2 days 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.

    • CrowyTech@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      Pixelfed is the one I need to learn to use, I never did Instagram so never know what images to post, or who I’m bothered about following erc.

        • CrowyTech@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          9 hours ago

          I’m just not sure what to upload. I seldomly uploaded photos on Facebook, before I came off it, and that’s with friends and family. Does Joe public want to see what I’ve been doing?

          Maybe I’m not the right audience for pixelfed

      • arakhis_@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        we need more artists on pixelfed. the insta artists are on the one side extremely exploited by meta but on the other side theres so much that do it for their small artist bag…

        idk clout is weird… how would one solve that with no revenue, maybe like personal sponsors based on reach will remain? idk

        • Muyal_Hix@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 hours ago

          There are a lot of artists on pixelfed, but lack of an algorithm makes finding them very difficult

          • arakhis_@feddit.orgEnglish
            1·
            1 hour ago

            yeah we need eu to help us get fediverse goin with european servers and more ethical algorithms for such platforms that rely on it

            or how else are you navigating pixelfed to find the good stuff… its really frustrating to stare at low quality posts and be somewhat stuck with those… maybe theres other reasons in UX also contributing to this frustration