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One of the reasons I find myself continuing to use the fediverse is because in many ways it reminds me of the old internet. There are parts of it that are rowd

One of the reasons I find myself continuing to use the fediverse is because in many ways it reminds me of the old internet. There are parts of it that are rowdy and salacious like old Reddit and 4chan, but if just want a shared space to nerd out with like-minded people about hobbies and shared interests, you can have the early-2000's hobby forum experience as well. And it's all very brand-unfriendly - there's relatively few celebrities, no advertising space to sell, no algorithm to optimize for, and nothing preventing a possible promotional post from a corporate account from appearing next to something NSFW in someone's timeline if that's who the user is following.

nefarious_ends 3y ago
where can I get started learning more about this fediverse?
- SturgeonsLaw 3y ago
  For the most early-Reddit-like experience, I would recommend Lemmy. I was kinda interested in checking it out for a while but suffered from a bit of choice paralysis not knowing where to start, but since most of them are federated, you see content from a bunch of instances at once, so that removes a bit of the risk. I ended up creating an account on lemmy.world which is (afaik) the largest instance by user count. Beehaw is (afaik) the second largest, and it has more of a "safety"/highly moderated approach - which is one of the reasons I wanted to distance myself from Reddit, so I crossed that one off my list. This map was posted on HN if you want to examine the relative sizes of the instances and see the lay of the land: https://lemmymap.feddit.de/ https://lemmymap.feddit.de/
  - Eavolution 3y ago
    Personally I prefer using kbin, that's another option. Kbin and lemmy both can communicate so it doesn't matter which you use. feddit.de and kbin.social are kbin instances.
  - twic 3y ago
    Great map! Sadly retarded.dev seems to be down, and there's no way i'm visiting cybercrime.zip at work.
- newoldhead 3y ago
  go to instances.social, pick a relatively small one and sign up for an account. now you're on mastodon and have a fediverse account. this account can interact with everything fediverse, from mastodon to pleroma to pixelfed to peertube. decentralized to the max. (don't join mastodon.social)
- red-iron-pine 3y ago
  lemmy.world browse around, see how you like it
bigger_inside 3y ago
This. I want a brand-unfriendly internet, though of course putting it that way again puts the commercial aspect and the internet's relation to it front and center. I want an internet that isn't built commercially, not with monetization in mind. There are still places - AO3 is completely unsuited to any commercial association, and it is still the fanfiction center of the internet. Places like literotica survived the ages. Of course, when regulatory moral panics take hold of it, they never say out loud that what they really protect and defend is commercial use...

nefarious_ends 3y ago

where can I get started learning more about this fediverse?

SturgeonsLaw 3y ago
For the most early-Reddit-like experience, I would recommend Lemmy. I was kinda interested in checking it out for a while but suffered from a bit of choice paralysis not knowing where to start, but since most of them are federated, you see content from a bunch of instances at once, so that removes a bit of the risk. I ended up creating an account on lemmy.world which is (afaik) the largest instance by user count. Beehaw is (afaik) the second largest, and it has more of a "safety"/highly moderated approach - which is one of the reasons I wanted to distance myself from Reddit, so I crossed that one off my list. This map was posted on HN if you want to examine the relative sizes of the instances and see the lay of the land: https://lemmymap.feddit.de/ https://lemmymap.feddit.de/
- Eavolution 3y ago
  Personally I prefer using kbin, that's another option. Kbin and lemmy both can communicate so it doesn't matter which you use. feddit.de and kbin.social are kbin instances.
- twic 3y ago
  Great map! Sadly retarded.dev seems to be down, and there's no way i'm visiting cybercrime.zip at work.
newoldhead 3y ago
go to instances.social, pick a relatively small one and sign up for an account. now you're on mastodon and have a fediverse account. this account can interact with everything fediverse, from mastodon to pleroma to pixelfed to peertube. decentralized to the max. (don't join mastodon.social)
red-iron-pine 3y ago
lemmy.world browse around, see how you like it

bigger_inside 3y ago

This. I want a brand-unfriendly internet, though of course putting it that way again puts the commercial aspect and the internet's relation to it front and center. I want an internet that isn't built commercially, not with monetization in mind. There are still places - AO3 is completely unsuited to any commercial association, and it is still the fanfiction center of the internet. Places like literotica survived the ages. Of course, when regulatory moral panics take hold of it, they never say out loud that what they really protect and defend is commercial use...