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.

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[–] Trihilis@ani.social 39 points 3 days ago (6 children)

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.

[–] ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Trihilis@ani.social 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The problem with Matrix to me is that it is simply too unstable. I can open it up on any device and half the messages won't load or are corrupted. Media won't show at all. In contrast Lemmy has been super reliable and "just works", so going from reddit to lemmy was no problem at all. And the communities are great too.

I just want working voice chat and group chats.

The entire streaming i don't really care about. There are other apps for that.

But yeah as it is I'm probably better off using discord until the enshittification is so bad no one wants to use it anymore.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 9 points 3 days ago

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.

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[–] megrania@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 4 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 days ago (12 children)

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.

[–] Coyote_sly@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] 0xD@infosec.pub 6 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately exactly my experience :( And nobody saw (or I guess liked/interacted with) my posts either, so it felt pointless.

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[–] Snoopy@piefed.social 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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 :)

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Hello! and welcome :D

There's tons of great communities and instances. I got a pretty big list, but:

Communities WARNING: b i g

Memes

Software

Politics

Casual

Knowledge

History

Animals

Art

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

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