I had heard about Mastodon and was aware of the concept of federated platforms. This is the first fedi service that I signed up for and I was very surprised at how easy it was and how optimistic the vibe was. Afterwards I decided to check out Mastodon, Pixelfed and Matrix. I found this cool website that tracks users accross the different instances and services https://fedidb.org/ I’m blown away by the growth of Lemmy.

The New Zealand community feels very small and tightknit on these platforms. I have never been a social media person so I do not know what to post.

Have you branched out to any other platforms? If so whats your experience been like compared to the alternative services?

What are some interesting people/instances to follow on Mastodon/pixelfed? I am interested in people who work on projects and document their progress and show off things they made. Also cute pets.

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    1 year ago

    I’m on mastodon, but since I was never very interested in Twitter either, I don’t use it much. I feel like that a reddit style forum is easier to start using because you don’t have to be “somebody” in order to participate.

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      1 year ago

      Forum style is good because it feels semi anonymous. People dont really care who is making the post/comment they only care for the subject matter.