I don’t think you’re dramatic.

For me it’s about reclaiming my right to participate in online discourse on my own terms. In a way the fediverse is freedom.

I plan on trying to self host a mastodon instance for myself and rebuild my blogs.

I don’t think I’d ever want to self host a lemmy, I like being anonymous to a reasonable degree. But I like that lemmy lets me have a voice without acquiescence to reddits enshittification.

Also the community is largely great. I love the memes, I love the comments and discussions, and I like that I learn things from fellow internet users again.

This makes sense to me.

All these people had to pick an instance and now probably understand how to do that.

That’s the biggest hurdle to signing up for lemmy or mastodon.

Gotta collect them allll… FEDIVERSE!

It’s a great conversation starter

I don’t know if Lemmy is for everyone, but I’m very happy to see the fedicerse gaining more traction.

Every user that onboards to pixelfed is going to now understand how to set up mastodon.

Blue sky is basically trying the exact same thing and expecting a different result.

I need to set my own instances…

I’m a little underwhelmed by the iOS app itself, but the content is great

Hopefully Pixelfed continues to bloom into a solid community!

The app doesn’t really feel native, and doesn’t have features like clicking to enlarge an image. If it’s open source I’d look into helping though

Yahoo just gradually died as people started slowly abandoning it.

The same can happen to Facebook, but it won’t die with a bang.