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I don't like this future where we're just trading users between a couple billionaires who all support the trump regime. I especially don't like that all social media is being consolidated to one company (Facebook/Meta) just like all of journalism is consolidating into one company. Bring back the anti trust.

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Luckily, we have alternatives: Bluesky, Mastodon. Even Lemmy is a great alternative to Reddit nowadays (I'd say, even better than Reddit). It has a bit of a Hacker News vibe, but on different subjects.

I’m on a lovely local mastodon instance with polite people who post interesting things. It feels like internet from a bygone age.

We also have the alternative of logging out and disengaging with social media.

Why search for the best version of a bad thing?

Especially when entropy inevitably takes your investment in building a digital persona there and devalues it?

So why are you here?

I view my presence as mostly transactional here. I read posted content, I read comments, I sometimes comment and have exchanges like this. But aside from a little dopamine hit from getting a few upvotes, my emotional investment here is limited.

I don’t have professional or personal connections here (though I know a few members irl) and this is not part of my permanent digital identity— I don’t have one of those, for a few reasons. Others do it differently, and I think the risk of HN going bad is low, so I understand the risk they are taking.

This is a mall - a publically open space privately owned by others - not a true public square. It’s better than x, fb, etc. in part because the private ownership is mostly used for good (strong moderation) rather than for obvious bad.

I've weaned off Meta and X entirely, but not a single person I know IRL, including family, has. Standing on principle shows you how many people you know wouldn't even consider it.

Can you please point me to some interesting Lemmy instances? I haven't been able to find anyone with strong activity by myself. Appreciated.

You shouldn't look for interesting Lemmy instances; you can pretty much use any instance and subscribe to interesting _communities_ from there.

If English is not your native tongue, I'd suggest you to find an instance in your language, so you can easily see all kinds of content if you filter by "Local".

Some random active communities to follow:

- https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted

- https://mander.xyz/c/science_memes

- https://feddit.org/c/europe

- https://lemmy.ca/c/pcgaming

Depends how you define "strong activity". Its only 50k MAU so i'd say its punching far above its weight in terms on good content/users. The tech(selfhosting, linux, privacy) communities are pretty good, you make a post you will get answers and discussion.

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