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.
I’m hoping Lemmy grows more so that the niche communities (that were still relatively active on reddit, even for their neichness) can start to have regular threads going.
What I’d also like to see is posts that I can spend 5-10 minutes in because they have more comments than the ~5 we have now.
The biggest issue of community growth is the lack priority in search engines. If you ask a question on lemmy, stackoverflow, and reddit at the same time, you will get the two latter choices first even if the lemmy post has a better answer.
Either lemmy is not prioritized because of the age of the domain, or less visitors, but I think it’s purposely done. There are usually no ads on lemmy. Google prioritizes sites that use their products.
I think, as well as the issues you mention, another issue might possibly be duplication. Historically, search engines penalise duplicated content, even across different domains and federation kind of bakes that in.
That’s a great point.
Search engines should fix this for federated websites if they still want the best search results.
For a solution now, I wonder if a 307 (Temporary Redirect) status code, redirecting to the original instance post, could work for search crawlers.
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.
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.
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
There are a lot of artists on pixelfed, but lack of an algorithm makes finding them very difficult
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
Lemmy is just left wing politics in an echo chamber
Then why do we keep arguing with each other?
Liberals Vs tankies
Leftist infighting is what happens here.
Hardly an echo chamber, then. Echos don’t argue, they just repeat the same stuff back.
Tankies go to .ml while liberals go to the other spaces. You don’t really interact with eachother, there’s several types of leftists etc.
I’m banned on several ml’s and several liberal’s.
They do not like people to talk back.
They moderate the places so that it works as an echo chamber. Mainly for leftists. Not many right wing people are coming towards Lemmy.
It’s pretty silly, Lemmy is at one hand designed so that everyone can see eachother’s content and opinions.
But at the other side, the spaces are moderated so that only their own opinions are allowed.
So there’s a lot of polarisation instead of compromise.
Then you end up with extremists having power that wrecks havoc.
Compromise is the enemy of extremists. They love it that we separate ourselves so easily.
I’m constantly arguing with liberals, the whole reason I’m on .ml and not one of the defederated instances is because I want to talk to y’all instead of stay in an echo chamber of people that agree with me.
Also liberals aren’t leftists 😘
Aight, I’m a social democrat. Am I a leftist?
Do you want to abolish capitalism? Not just reform it, but completely abolish it.
That’s the bare minimum.
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.
was dead
20k MAU can feel pretty dead, even 100k can if none of them are sharing things you’re interested in.
79 millions pictures , i don’t undetstand how you can’t find any content that is interesting
One of the big issues that I personally had with Pixelfed is that content discovery is kind of difficult on the platform. Sure, there’s probably some pictures out there of the obscure shit I’m into. However, all I ever found on pixelfed was like landscape/nature photography and a little bit of porn
I see all type of contents drawing, vinyl, monuments etc
Yeah and none of those are my niche. Not to mention, content discovery is still difficult even if you personally see things you’re interested in lol
Maybe the problem is that your interests are so limited and not the lack of diversity of content. Or you just want to be fed content by algorithms and top content pages. I discover content that interest me daily. You reminds me of people saying it’s hard to didcover music on bandcamp although there is like 5 ways to find music on bandcamp
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.
No it’s not you just used to be fed content by algorithmsbor just follow populat content
