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what social sites can you recommend? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Bicyclejohn@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm looking to delve into the fediverse. I use Lemmy and mastodon already. I want to go deeper into the fediverse. Where do I go next?

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[–] jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Does it make sense to host your own Pixelfed instance (like I’m doing with Mastodon and Lemmy currently)? I occasionally do some photography and having a place to post my images to replace my current site would be nice.

[–] Stardenver@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you want to selfhost in general and/or to have control over your content, yes. If you want to explore photos and find new content you are probably better off joining one of the bigger communities.

[–] jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Ah, so similar to the issues with finding content on a single user Mastodon instance :(

I think the biggest leap forward for the Fediverse would be making content more discoverable. Just not sure how that would be done.

The other problem for a single user instance would be that anything you post is basically shouting into the void unless people follow you. At least with Lemmy you can post to other instances/communities.

[–] Stardenver@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually that's not a problem on mastodon, as you can always add some relays and automatically fill up your federation timeline.

[–] jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, right. I’d set up some relays already, but I didn’t realize that it also shared your public posts with other instances subscribed to the relay.