Don’t Think, Just Jam
Besides already mentioned methods there’s also Lemmy Community-Browser.
It has a search bar and ability to toggle specific instances in case you want to avoid some of them. A bit simpler version of Lemmy Explorer mentioned by @DogMuffins.
I guess it depends on your motivation for said project.
Do you enjoy the process of working on the project? Do you use it to learn new things and improve the skills required for it? Or all you care about is the end project?
If it’s the last one I can see why you could get discouraged but if it’s the other two then not really.
If I work on something specific I do it because I want to create this thing using my skills, experience and ideas. I also try to do as much of it as I can on my own, without using other’s people assets etc. For me, the work I put in is an important of the process and each step towards completion makes me a little proud and happy that I can create something.
At the same time I’m a weirdo who tends to use less efficient methods if they aren’t as fun to use when working on personal projects. I don’t really care about using AI in the first place so that might skew my view a bit.
There’s also the fact that AI isn’t omnipotent. It makes mistakes just like us and I’d rather fix my own mistakes since this way I know what I did, how I did it and where to look when things go wrong.
Sorry for the word salad. Your post gave me a reason to spew some unfiltered thoughts about an issue I never really thought about.
Why do we need lemmy and kbin? Why do we need various linux distros? Why do we need different office suites?
Having a choice is always a positive, more so if those alternatives are compatible like various activity pub projects.
I don’t have an up to date feature comparison between Mastodon and Misskey but some of the things that differentiated the latter were:
Keep in mind, these are from few years ago so some things may have been changed or added to Mastodon (I’m not too familiar with Twitter like projects in general).
There’s also already mentioned focus on Japanese audience - some of it comes down to features (I feel like western social media aren’t as… animated? as Asian or at least Japanese ones), as well as culture (I think this picture of one of the tips is a good start.
I’m sure someone more familiar with both can come up with a better comparison but I think that the main point of just having an option is the most valid one.
There are also these two sites: