I’m more of a forum user than a microblogger, and google says sharkey is a kids haircut place

Yes, I tried Mastodon prior to Lemmy, iirc. When I post my art I post it from Mastodon because it’s easy to crosspost it to Lemmy.

tried mastodon did not understand how it works lemmy felt familiar so I stayed

The concept of twitter was never appealing to me, so I naturally won’t like platforms that ape it. I joined Reddit at the time because the Minecraft sub seemed like it was getting more attention from Mojang vs the forums. I stayed because the entire IT industry is on Reddit. I left because of the API nonsense in 2023.

Honestly the two big problems I see with the fediverse are the political stridency of the userbase and the friction of picking an instance when you don’t know what that even means. The first problem, as I’ve said elsewhere, is somewhat a result of fedi users self selecting (again I include myself in here) and might resolve on its own if mainstream platforms enshittify to the point that even the normies can’t take it anymore and we figure out a way to onboard people better. These problems are probably why I don’t try other fedi platforms.

But I’m rambling again. I haven’t slept well in days.

With Mastodon, I saw no value since there was no content besides American political whining when I last looked.

I tried pixelfed but nobody was using it when I last looked.

Bluesky is ATP but similar problem as Mastodon. There’s no content except Americans whining and facebook tier political image macros. Unless you disable adult content filters, then you get to see obese hairy man asshole spreads with no way to avoid homosexual content when you’re not homosexual because word filters don’t do anything if the poster didn’t use those words in the text body or hashtags. So it’s not great for porn either. On top of that, there’s a lot of content thieves who don’t credit their reposts.

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I started with mastodon but i can never get into that kind of social media. Everyone was super nice and i tried for a bit but it felt now like looking into people’s lives rather than whatever this is. I prefer this.

I like mastadon. I really didn’t know, and I mostly still don’t care what the fediverse shit is.

Indeed there is value in that. And sometimes that’s possible and should be pursued. But there are some people I can’t discuss pizza toppings with, because I can’t accept their underlying world view. It’s difficult to find a good balance at scale, which is why everything is becoming so horrible. Something will have to (positively) change at some point, because the current state is unsustainable.

Not really, I always strongly disliked Twitter and the idea of something that’s basically like Twitter never appealed to me. Might try that stuff eventually though.

I have two small pictures blog in Mastodon, but none of them get that many attention as they would get here, sooo…

Two good ones I also recomend if you wanna start as a newbie: Friendica and Sharkey. I might change my picture blogs to there.

Twitter wasn’t a thing for me way before the Nazis bought it, so I don’t know why a replacement for it would be the thing for me now. I don’t know what that other thing is.

I use Lemmy and Mastadon daily. Two different things. Love them both.

Mastodon, not my cup of tea (to be fair, neither was Twitter). I just don’t find micro-blogging to be very engaging and my mind categorizes it as “brain rot”.

Sharkey? Haven’t heard of that one until I just googled it, but one look at their mascot and…no. Just… no.

Have been looking at joining Piefed instance, though.

Nope

No, because they were alternates to social media whose formats I had no interest in before they went to shit as they all seemed to be accounts yelling into the cloud, not somewhere that conversations could happen.

So just lemmy and piefed so far.