You could look into using 3rd party clients to view Lemmy. They often enhance the default behavior with additional features. E.g. Voyager (the one I’m using) has a “keyword filter”.

Jesus Christ! It’s almost at 250.000 $ now!

It’s a federated system just like Lemmy, Mastodon, …

(One of the) first step would be to find an Instance that you might like to join. https://joinpeertube.org/instances

Then, an App that can also handle peertube would be e.g. NewPipe - which is also a very good 3rd party app for YouTube and alike. https://newpipe.net/

Is it weird

No. You’re fine.

VNC

1000 followers isn’t really big. 🤷

Mastodon HAS rss support.

Just add “.RSS” to your mastodon URL. This should work for accounts, tags and possibly for other feeds/streams.

https://derekkedziora.com/notes/20221112094802

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

“Am I a joke to you?”

Personally, I love Bludit as it is really simple, flat-file and perfect for blogging.

However, you could also look into WriteFreely if you want something with ActivityPub (= Fediverse). Feature wise very very plain and simple, but might noch give you most of the bells and whistles as other platforms would do it. Think of it as an alternative to “Medium”.

Gancio

Also, check out https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/ for a comprehensive list of services/apps available in the fediverse.

https://www.inwx.com

Feature rich and never had an issue with them. Prices are fine imho.

This would incentivise instances to keep growing, as more users would potentially mean more income. I don’t think that this is a good idea as it conflicts the decentralized nature of the fediverse.

I would suggest that we promote donations more. Seriously, nobody is talking about that stuff.

Furthermore, “money” doesn’t always fix a communities infrastructure issues - people do. Most of the time, admins are a one-person-army. If people would take over work (like moderation, implementing helpful features in code, …) more often, that might help out the admins more than just throwing money at them.

It is the same as with a lot of open source communities: It’s not all about the money, it’s about people getting active and involved and helping each other out.

Definitely NOT writefreely. It is a nice tool, if you want to have a minimalistic blog others on the fediverse can follow, but it is extremly bad at interacting with literally anything, yet. (This might change in the future, but at the moment, WF is not really made for your use case.)

It looks like the graph from the “Mastodon user count” bot: https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount

However, this bot counts MASTODON users - not fediverse users. The graph has probably nothing to do with reddit exodus but with Musks announcement that birdsite users can only see 300 posts until they register and pay.

A couple of small ones are starting out here and there: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=fantasy+football

Doesn’t seem like big communities hopped over yet.

https://browse.feddit.de/ would be another one.

You can check out some of these directories:

• https://fedi.directory/ --> curated list
• https://communitywiki.org/trunk
• https://fediverse.info/explore/people

Some other good tips on how to find interesting people: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends/