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The fediverse, lemmy, mastodon.

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I suppose that works if you want to interact with the three people on there.

It's actually starting to get really good. It's like early reddit before eternal September

On the fediverse it currently is eternal September.

I was there before the reddit explosion when the majority of the posts on the fediverse were from one guy who just vomited cccp propaganda all day. I think it's in a much more interesting place right now.

Reddit otoh started to become boomer-Facebook-meme-town some time around the onset of COVID and then hockey sticked last year.

I actually dislike the fedi fragmentation too much. Yes, ik that's the appeal for some people but I really don't like just how split it is

Ok, then you don’t have to go anywhere. Have fun.

It's already bigger than hn.

I suppose by three you mean 10 million

I would also add https://tildes.net

This is a website for people who think reddit is too conservative for them.

Really? My impression is that everyone is welcome. The only way I could imagine someone ending having a bad time there is to be hostile to other users.

I’ve been a part of a lot of online communities going back 20 years. The fediverse had the most off-putting user base of any I’ve experienced so far. I liked the whole decentralized idea, but the users and culture drove me away.

What's the user culture like? I haven't had time to check it out myself.

It depends a lot which server you join, https://beehaw.org it's very welcoming, https://lemmygrad.ml is full of tankies that hate the West (supposedly it's about communism, because original creator is a communist, but it's more pro Russia pro China, anti US and in support anything the West doesn't support and vice versa). If you go to https://lemmy.world (the biggest server) you'll see mostly memes.

Though you can subscribe to different communities and customize your experience, often what you can experience from specific community depends on which server it is located.

https://programming.dev/ and https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/ might be good for technology related communities.

Thanks this is very informative.

Tildes is not part of fediverse.

As for fediverse a lot of depends on the server you chose, for example https://beehaw.org is much friendlier.

Fediverse is split along cultural lines so you might want to check out the other half (freespechextremist, poast, etc.) if the "official" instances are not to your liking. Of course being split means that BOTH sides are more extreme than the average user would be on a shared platform.

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