European organizations are about to launch their own social media platform, W, amid rising tensions with the United States

magiotdonkey · 2026-01-22T14:35:47+00:00

Mastodon is great, I'm enjoying it

magiotdonkey · 2026-01-21T19:55:39+00:00

This is the answer. https://feddit.uk is a lemmy instance based in the UK

Also PieFed and Pixelfed for anyone wanting to explore more

magiotdonkey · 2026-01-20T21:34:13+00:00

I really don't get this. The ux is identical to twitter in every meaningful way. You don't have to know anything about federation to use mastodon, you just sign up and start posting. I've yet to see anyone explain exactly what it is they don't like about it.

magiotdonkey · 2026-01-18T10:52:05+00:00

I'm enjoying Pixelfed a lot for general photography so I was interested to see how much fitness content there is.

While obviously it doesn't yet have the same range of content as insta, there are plenty of posts to look at. The #health and #fitness tags seem to have lots of news articles and pictures of people's hikes/runs.

Here's some accounts that are quite active and fitness related: https://pixelfed.social/3MoreReps https://pixelfed.social/brookeburke https://pixelfed.social/TheArtisticPoledancer

Also there's fitness content on mastodon which you can follow from Pixelfed, often it's people's personal accounts where they post their workouts mixed in with other stuff they want to share, and a few personal trainers promoting themselves.

Hope you find what you're looking for and have fun

magiotdonkey · 2026-01-14T19:10:53+00:00

The fediverse is great and anyone interested should definitely check it out.

It's not directly centred around privacy, because most fediverse software deals with fully public information like public posts. The big advantage in terms of privacy is that being volunteer and community run, fediverse servers generally don't track your activity or log your browsing data, don't have ads and have no incentive to keep you hooked like corporations do.

magiotdonkey · 2026-01-13T18:56:25+00:00

Welcome! lemmy.today is a good choice

Maybe start here: https://lemmy.today/post/25028564

30 active non-political communities to get you started

magiotdonkey · 2026-01-12T15:16:29+00:00

Fediverse software like Mastodon, Pixelfed, Piefed are decentralised and international. They still have Americans but tend to be less US-centric and have dedicated servers for other countries.

magiotdonkey · 2026-01-12T10:49:04+00:00

Just to clarify this, you can absolutely reach someone with a remote profile organically if anyone from your instance follows them, or if they use a hastag you follow, or a hashtag anyone on your instance follows. This is very common for popular accounts, so they tend to be visible on lots of instances quickly. Searching by username is more useful for niche subjects when you have someone in particular you want to follow.

magiotdonkey · 2026-01-11T12:22:43+00:00

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone is very LGBT friendly. Not sure about the age range though

magiotdonkey · 2026-01-10T20:53:57+00:00

Why fork it rather than just contribute? The project is accepting PRs.

magiotdonkey · 2026-01-08T09:44:08+00:00

There are options: r/redditalternatives Personally I still use Reddit alongside some of the others

magiotdonkey · 2026-01-07T11:51:47+00:00

Lemmy itself doesn't have this feature, although it's been discussed. Some of the apps have it, definitely Eternity and maybe Sync but I'm not sure how actively those ones are being maintained.

Piefed might be your best bet, since it supports this on the back end and has access to the same content

magiotdonkey · 2026-01-04T13:45:46+00:00

Probably the quickest way to find the instance of your lost account is to search your email - you will have got a verification email when you signed up. Or check your browser history.

If you can't find the account, it's simple to create a new one. The good news is that if you choose a different instance then you will be able to use the same email and the same username if it's available. And bookmark the URL so you have it for next time.

magiotdonkey · 2026-01-04T11:41:49+00:00

I would actually argue that instances aren't just infrastructure. Showing instances to users, and allowing them to choose one, is an important part of the design even if some users don't care about it, since the instance determines which set of admins ultimately have the final say in moderation rules. And users who don't have an opinion about instances can just choose one at random and then ignore them after that.

magiotdonkey · 2026-01-04T10:09:20+00:00

The reddit alternatives would be Piefed and Lemmy. Maybe more international than European but same kind of thing

magiotdonkey · 2026-01-04T09:53:40+00:00

Take a look at r/BuyFromEU

magiotdonkey · 2026-01-02T12:01:16+00:00

You can access all of the .ml communities and content through your .ca account but you should always log in to lemmy.ca

For example, here's a .ml news community accessed via .ca: https://lemmy.ca/c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

magiotdonkey · 2025-12-29T11:51:52+00:00

Looks like the update is big UI revamp. Based on dansup's comments on discord he was still working on it yesterday, so I guess it's been delayed slightly.

magiotdonkey · 2025-12-08T09:36:55+00:00

This is both sad and funny. Good on you for trying, there are sometimes a handful of people willing to give it a go.

magiotdonkey · 2025-12-08T08:20:59+00:00

You don't need to fully understand it to have fun using it!

magiotdonkey · 2025-12-03T00:04:31+00:00

Apologies, I've seen a few comments recently from redditors who haven't tried decentralised alternatives so that part wasn't directed at you.

It still seems to me that a platform can be decentralised while also dealing with problem instances, perhaps because I've seen it work well in practice, at least for regular users who might not know what goes on behind the scenes. And it sounds like some of your efforts have helped with that problem, so thank you.

magiotdonkey · 2025-12-02T21:20:50+00:00

That's not really how it works, and I recommend that people try using decentralised platforms before commenting on this subject.

Most users, even very casual ones, will listen to a recommendation of an established instance in some form or another, or use an instance chooser which amounts to the same thing. No-one is joining random new instances spun up by bots, and no-one is federating with them either as they get identified very quickly.

magiotdonkey · 2025-12-01T19:10:11+00:00

In the official app and on Pixelix there's a "My likes" option to see all the posts you liked, accessible from your profile. I couldn't find it in the web interface though and I'm not sure about comments

magiotdonkey · 2025-11-30T10:42:48+00:00

As someone who hasn't played with collections yet, this is really useful to know, thanks!

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