• squirrel@cake.kobel.fyiEnglish
    56·
    2 days ago

    It’s smaller and friendlier, no ads, no big tech, non-commercial, open source and I can host my own instance on a potato that connects me to people all around the globe.

    • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      Its nice when you go on Fedi websites and see ublock origin with 0 blocked elements.

    • Sam@solent.socialOP
      31·
      2 days ago

      What do you think you need more of on the Fediverse? As it’s great as a smaller friendlier system but do you miss anything or want something more on here?

      • squirrel@cake.kobel.fyiEnglish
        20·
        2 days ago

        A couple of things come to mind:

        • More public institutions need to be on Mastodon or similar microblogging services, so they can publish public service announcements openly via Fediverse and RSS for everyone to read
        • More video creators and public broadcasters need to publish their videos or mirror their channels to PeerTube/Loops etc.
        • More donations or funding in general for fediverse developers and instance admins
        • More enthusiasts who post about their niche interests in niche communities on Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin
        • Sam@solent.socialOP
          6·
          2 days ago

          Public Institutions would be really cool it’s one of things I’m trying to wrap around my head with running a local based instance. I want to bring into the fold some of the local councils, universities and small businesses while making sure people are the center of it. But yes Service updates should be coming to the Fediverse.

          Content creation is a strange one as a lot of people often do it for money or at least don’t want to loose a lot of money running there own PeerTube instance, while Loops is currently a little easier to get into it does beg to question how do we make sure people are spread across different instances instead of just loops.video along with how do we make already established creators feel like it’s worth while to come to this platform over YouTube because a lot of motivation over there is financial.

          Donations and Funding in general is certainly something that needs to be pushed more / shown off more. I know for my instance I want to take into account I can create physical products and ship them to people such as my custom stickers & fediverse stickers to help fund this instance. Often asking just for a donation is kinda strange for some people and they’d much rather move to somewhere that’s bigger or other people donate so they don’t have to. This world sucks especially if you can’t / won’t donate.

          Posting more content onto Niche parts of the Fediverse is something I’m trying to do with some of my interests, the sad thing is a lot of people don’t want to be the first or only person pushing things in a community, you somewhat need to interact and push for the type of content you want at the moment but it will all come together eventually.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 day ago

    I don’t follow individuals, no one person is worth that, I don’t do that kind of allegiance or need to interact with a crowd of sycophant followers. So that eliminates a lot of social media right away. Threads, substack, instagram, whatever. Not interested in individuals.

    I was on reddit for over a decade. Towards the end the subs became…meaningless? Reposts, bots, hive mind, karma whoring, and generally if you weren’t first to post you got zero interaction at best, at worst someone just wanted to disagree with you and downvote. Ask a question and you were stupid for not knowing the answer. Not worth it, and them came all the API issues, forcing the app, getting rid of Victoria, quarantining some subs while letting shitholes like T_D carry on… death by little cuts.

    I much prefer forum-like settings, where most everyone can participate with everything and the Fediverse offers that. So here I am. Yeah, it’s not perfect, defederating is a thing, some servers are ideologically heavyhanded, it has some similar issues with users and mods as the other place, but at least the stupid Karma whoring isn’t a compounding factor.

    I still use some facebook groups for hobbies, they just don’t exist here or have zero activity. But that’s about it for my social media.

    • Cataphract@lemmy.ml
      1·
      24 hours ago

      I realized a few weeks ago, when a question was asked about what all the off-shoots of the fediverse were, that the “lemmy-style” of social media is the only one I like (piefed,etc included). I realized all the other ones focused on “following users” which is why I never got into them. I use voyager a lot to lurk when I’m away from the pc and it doesn’t even show who posts it.

      I just have no desire to follow an individual, company, influencer, or celebrity shit. I’m here for the content, poster be damned (but respectfully appreciate their contribution). I want a subscription feed based off of categories, just wish there was a video platform that did the same thing (I was always horrible about not using subscription feed for youtube and mostly only used it for local and news).

  • sexy_peach@feddit.orgEnglish
    30·
    2 days ago

    Because even if I have to read stupid opinions here, they are written by humans and not artificially inflated ads or bots

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
    261·
    2 days ago

    There’s no incentive to enshittify. Donations from myself and others cover at least the ongoing cost if not the labor. There is nothing here trying to compete for my attention and keep me here as long as it can. No bugging me with notifications that I’m missing out on conversations or posts. I just use it here and there and if I need a few days because I’m not in the right headspace to socialize I just take it without it trying to guilt me or FOMO me into coming back.

    It feels like back in the early days of the internet. You can run out of new content: go do something else for a bit. I feel like people are kinder and more polite here, though it could be my aggressive blocking of people I don’t enjoy interacting with combined with my own increased effort to extend people grace.

      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        It kinda already is. The number of misinformed boomer comments aren’t nearly to the scale of Reddit or Youtube, but I’m seeing them more often

  • MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    It’s smaller, and so there is less temptation to scroll when most of the posts I see are the same posts I saw yesterday.

    I like the niche linguistic rebels I meet here, and even though I fundamentally disagree with them (“politics” shouldn’t refer to all human group decision, the oakframe is too cryptic for most people to adopt, and “th” is better than "þ"by a wide margin), I respect their willingness to step out of the language comfort zone. Not many people can do that.

    Also, I like the idea of starting my own Reddit/Twitter/YouTube, so to speak :D

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      It’s smaller, and so there is less temptation to scroll when most of the posts I see are the same posts I saw yesterday.

      Same here. Plus, there’s no algorithm trying to suck you in. Anytime I make the rare visit to Reddit to check things like r/skyrimmods I have to actively avoid clicking on anything besides what I’m lookibg for, lest I waste the next hour scrolling and hating every minute of it

  • vapordays@leminal.spaceEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Everyone on reddit is so pedanticly confrontational, to make it worse, most people like that are just really confidently wrong and therefore it’s an insufferable place. This also pretty much goes for all of mainstream media. Everyone has a shitty fucking opinion about basically everything now, and will fight you over everything no matter how big or small

    Poisoned ass society and this seems to be a tad of an enclave

  • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    1 day ago

    Because Fediverse is non-judgmental, I don’t know who any of you are or what you look like, and Fediverse hasnt reprimanded or banned me yet.

  • Az_1@piefed.zipEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    I like how it’s more decentralised but still feels easy to use, and also has no ads and isn’t controlled by companies trying to make money. I also love how it is easy to curate a feed with only content that you want in it, and none that you don’t being shoved in by algorithms that collect all your data

  • IWW4@lemmy.zip
    10·
    2 days ago

    I really loved Reddit.

    I got banned from Reddit, not sure why, but I am sure I deserved it.

    This is the closest I have found to reddit.

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      I had been on Reddit since 2011. This place feels a lot like the Reddit of 2011 but with less rage comics. I didn’t get banned. I left during the API debacle of 2023 when Reddit decided to push to make itself just a TikTok clone with occasional text and link posts and blocked the 3rd party clients using the API. Apollo kept Reddit as it was and without Apollo, I had no reason to use Reddit any more

      • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        I hear you. You get used to one of the clients, the really awesome nitche communities, start making friends (or at least start recognizing the user names) and then…rug pull. The clients were removed, a lot of the ways we communicated with said people got MUCH worse. And then you discover people are getting paid to post/comment on reddit, teh whole AI thing…just felt crummy.

        The last thing you want to do is make it harder/impossible for your power users, users that love your platform enough to make a free app to interact with it to use said platform. Its so dumb they made a competitor thats still going strong to this day (US).

      • IWW4@lemmy.zip
        2·
        1 day ago

        I used to haunt Rotten Tomatoes movie forums and that site did an upgrade that went on for months. It basically killed the board, so I moved to Reddit sometime in the late aughts.

        This place is not nearly as active as Reddit was back then nor does it have as much porn.

        I have no idea what the API thing is, I have heard about it around these parts.

        For me the lowest and shittiest point for Reddit was the Ellen Pao stuff. Good damn, the internet is one sexists place but a vocal group of reddit users took that to the extreme.

        The high point of reddit was The Swamps of Dagoba story and Woody Harrelson’s absolute shit of an AMA.

        • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          The high point of reddit was The Swamps of Dagoba story and Woody Harrelson’s absolute shit of an AMA.

          Let’s talk about Rampart

    • EvasiveSpecies@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 day ago

      “I’m sure I deserved it” as a fellow Reddit ban victim, I relate.

      And yup, closest alternative. Forums aren’t active anymore (or at least not much) and there aren’t any thread-like platforms in bigger social medias.