“Normal” social media tends to deteriorate my mental health rather quickly. Whether it’s the infinite scroll or types of posts there or both, it generally sucks. I saw the link to this instance in a youtube video a while back (i can’t for the life of me remember which video, it might’ve been simpleflips? idk) and decided to check it out. The smaller user base, control over my feed, lack of advertisements, and a more human-friendly UI make lemmy much more pleasant to use, and easier to regulate how much I end up browsing. The smaller quantity of posts and comments can be a bit of a let down sometimes but that just gives me more incentive to post and interact since it won’t get lost in the void too. Overall it’s just a more pleasant experience. Being federated means it’s a bit more bulletproof so-to-speak than something like cohost was (I miss that site); if blahaj ever shuts down I can move to another instance and still get to use lemmy which is nice. As for matrix, I haven’t tried it yet.

thank you!

what is this from?

almost fnaf-jumpscare-esque

I know this is reposted to lemmy so people are understandably going to connect those dots but OOP was talking about cohost, a site very similar to tumblr. Many people (including myself) jumped ship from tumblr to cohost following a series transmisogynistic bans and censorship from tumblr’s staff. Cohost was run by 4 people, didn’t run ads and was funded entirely by the community. It was honestly the best social media platform I’ve ever used. Unfortunately it shut down in October 2024 due to lack of funding and developer burnout. In retrospect, OOP was right. The people I followed on cohost moved to discord servers or their own blogs, and while I didn’t engage much with my “community” on cohost while it was around, I lost a lot of what I used to see on there. I think lemmy and federated social media is more resistant to that because it’s spread across so many instances, but I think OOP has a point, smaller social networks like this and cohost aren’t stable. While I think tumblr and twitter are pretty horrible for many reasons and I don’t wish to go back, I can’t really blame OOP for their sentiments. Maybe one day we can have the best of both worlds.

lain? is that you?