• Comtief@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    Been a rocky road for me, more than a year ago I created a lemm.ee account, even used that for a few weeks later, but got a bit bored because I felt there was not enough diversity in here. And then lemm.ee was taken down. Kind of a double whammy.

    Yesterday someone in reddit brought up a discussion how signing up and using lemmy should be simplified, they had a link, clicked it and simply registered a new account there without even checking what instance it was (I simply can’t be bothered to do the research again), so I ended up with a thelemmy.club account. Then someone promoted piefed.social, said its easy, so I created an account for that too, so here I am.

    Then I found out piefed.social has a philosophy to not show downvotes or upvote downvote percentages, I kind of like checking downvotes too, I mean its not youtube (yes, shots fired) so I tried to get out of that quite quickly. Luckily phtn.app supports piefed.social and looks nice, while on phone I already had Summit installed from lemm.ee times and that supports piefed.social too, even though its not a lemmy system or what you call it.

    Right now I’m working through these 300 subscriptions that piefed suggested me, unsubscribing from some i don’t like, then i’ll probably read feed for All for a while to discover new communities. Let’s see how long I last on this fediverse thing this time.

    I also have mastodon on my phone, but I was never into instagram / twitter etc, so im not very into that too and its kind of a ghost town. Same goes for pixelfed. I also have a Loops account (even though I’ve never used tiktok either), thats starting to look better, but still needs more people, I think.

    • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      19 hours ago

      Easy access, mainstream app that is good, word of mouth. Master all 3 and Lemmy will be a great rival to Reddit.

      I been feeling that Lemmy is quite active as of late. Nice to be here. I dropped scrolling Reddit at work and since recent, trying to stay in Lemmy on my phone too.

    • Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      Just use lemmy.world and another server more locally from your own country or smthing, a local lemmy server, and mastodon.social for a twitter and instagram alternative