174
To those who are new to this whole fediverse/threadiverse/this thing, how has your experience been? (piefed.social)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
145 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

And to those that have been here for a while, how has your experience changed over the year(s)?

What has worked for you?
What do you see needs improvement in your chosen platform?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (17 children)

I wouldn't recommend it to anyone in real life. There are parts that are just way too jarring.

Ugh, this. And I hate that it's like that.

Like, I used to have my instance open to whoever to sign up. My guiding principle was to have a place that wasn't overrun with [parts that are just way too jarring]. Holy shit was that an impossible goal to do alone so I shuttered it up and now it's just a private instance / testbed for Tesseract.

My friends knew I was active on Reddit, and that was fine. But I wouldn't tell them I spend any amount of time here because what they would see going to almost any random instance will probably definitely not look good on me by association despite that I'm nowhere near that.

So if anyone shares this desire, I am open to un-mothballing my instance, rebranding, and taking on new admins and re-opening to users who also want a place like that.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 17 child comments
    •
  • [+] 9 points 9 months ago (14 children)
    [deleted]
  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 14 child comments
    •
  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    No idea. Maybe they're still federated with Lemmygrad and Hexbear for some odd reason?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
    •
  • [+] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)
    [deleted]
  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    They're particularly toxic tankie servers on Lemmy

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
    • load more comments (1 reply)
  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe all the ”what the fuck we just made another-moe" communities?

    I swear I used to block three every week, until I figured out it was just a few users who didn't know how to use content warning tags, and then I just blocked those users.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (5 children)

    furries. linux supremacists. extremist left-wingers of various flavors and identity groups. fetishists of every variety and their weird SFW quasi pornography.

    not sure how you aren't seeing any of that. i see it on a daily basis and to not see it i have to block dozens of communities. at one point on lemmy i had something like 60 communities blocked and 100s of users.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
    •
  • [+] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)
    [deleted]
  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    nothing wrong with them posting and doing their thing, but in fediverse that stuff hits general feeds and going to be incredibly alienating to a non-fetishist userbase. if the fediverse wants to grow it needs to keep controversial content away from the front page.

    personally i know furries and I don't really care, but I'm a weirdo. Yet I still don't really want weird furry shit that I don't care about constantly showing up in my feed.

    Average people are FREAKED OUT by furries, even pro-queer progressives: https://slate.com/advice/2026/02/parent-advice-son-hobby-community-furry.html

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
    • load more comments (-1 replies)