afaik these are all pretty comfy, queer-friendly instances. Do check the rules about nsfw content etc and check if the post character limit is to your liking.
Remember to fill out your profile before sending follow requests and to add content warnings (CW) to sensitive posts :3
The main reason people don’t make that switch though is because the fediverse is extremely fractured by design. A key part of why people enjoy social media is in order to encounter people with viewpoints outside of their own, and because you can theoretically find anything you’re looking for when there’s a large enough volume of people.
Frequently the overmoderation and/or under moderation of various fediverse instances makes it hard to feel like your message is reaching the people you want to reach, it always feels like you’re in the wrong instance, no matter what, whether due to some petty drama surrounding an open source dev you’ve never heard of cloging your feed for an entire week, or long stretches of dead silence.
And oh god, don’t even get me started on the “global” page, if I wanted to be sold AI and NFTs I’d use X.
The inherrant design flaw of the fediverse is the exact thing it’s marketed on. This is also why people tend to find it so hard to use.
Because installing an app and making an account, posting liking and sharing… these are all simple actions. The challenge is that you are faced with a choice, and even with a full understanding of what that choice entails, it always feels like the wrong one.
My key memories of being on the fediverse are composed of refreshing the page over and over because there wasn’t a new post from any of my local networks for hours on end.
If you do access a feed that has people posting stuff, then the lack of any kind of algorithm results in that content often being kinda trash. Believe it or not, the algorithm isn’t just present to waste your time. Truthfully, it could be used to save you time.
Much of the recent success of linux stems from it consistantly across the board finally being able to deliver on the promise that no matter the choice you make, it’s better than windows. Partly because valve was able to get it to perform better when running windows games than windows can, but also partly because Microsoft keeps making windows worse.
For as long as people can still find weird, written smut on tumblr, they’re gonna keep using it.
For the fediverse to thrive, it needs to find a way to stand out other than being the “not bad social media platform.”
It needs to properly rethink social media from the ground up, especially with the approach it is taking. Or it will die trying.
Your conclusion is wrong, sorry. It doesn’t die because it’s already succeeding.
You’re right in that many people won’t move, because fedi is a social network in contrast to social media.
And I don’t want my message to reach people, i just want a chill place to hang out with moots where we show each other cool things we do. Without influencers, advertisements and US politics. Like early days tumblr, instead of like twitter and instagram.
My key memories of being on the fediverse are composed of refreshing the page over and over because there wasn’t a new post from any of my local networks for hours on end.
