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.
I tried Mastodon back in 2017 but Twitter-style social media was never really my cup of tea. Probably not going to try pixelfed as I haven’t been into Instagram since like 2019 but I’m definitely keeping an eye on Friendica and similar replacements for Facebook’s services!
It’s not ActivityPub but I’m planning on spinng up a private Matrix instance at some point but that’ll be more for bridging all the messengers I use together.