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?

    • jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social
      11·
      1 year ago

      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·
        1 year ago

        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·
          1 year ago

          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·
            1 year ago

            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·
              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.