Fedora is my recommendation of choice. The default Fedora + Gnome workflow out of the box is absolutely flawless.

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I like Apple Music. It’s awesome even on Android, which is what I use.

Bluesky does it the best. It supports community made custom algorithms, so I use a Discover feed to find people I like.

Its not as good as it sounds. There should be some kind of sorting. I follow #food but I get low-quality content of any random user taking a picture of their refrigerator at the top of my feed just because they posted 1s ago.

The article says 80 percent of the users left. If you had more context, you would have got what I said.

And 80 percent of over 100 million users is still 20-30m active users.

What’s the alternative?

Which adblocker do you use?

I hope so. I find some excellent content here but I still need to sift through tons of Lemmy circlejerk to find it.

Lemmy just needs to stop talking about itself so much. The only reason I still use Reddit is because I find fresher and more varied content there. Lemmy users need to provide more content than just the fact that they are on Lemmy.

There is now a lifetime option to remove the ads. Bit too expensive for me though, so I’ll live with the ads or use Jerboa.

Couldn’t agree more.

Just downloaded. I have not been this happy for months.

If they embrace ActivityPub and then start adding their own proprietary features that are enough for users to switch over, and Mastodon doesn’t, then it’s not an “evil agenda”, it’s Meta adding an essential feature that the users want and Mastodon isn’t able to add and ultimately Meta making a better product.

If Mastodon or Lemmy are truly superior and the future, then the product should be the best in the market, not DUE to federation but DESPITE it.

That’s one thing that everyone here forgets because right now federation is hard to get into, and the only people here are those who put the effort in because they believe in federation. That is the reason for their tolerance in an inferior product. But if that’s the case, then it will never be mainstream as long as the product is inferior.

The entire point of ActivityPub is that it’s open and EEE-proof. If the users leave it for something proprietary but better, then it isn’t EEE, it’s just a better product.

Simply being open source is not an achievement in itself. The platform has to be user friendly, stable and future-proof. Most FOSS and federated alternatives create a platform and then endlessly harp on federation like that’s the end. No, that’s the beginning. The point is to make a product better than Big Tech WHILE maintaining federation and Foss status. THAT is what makes a platform EEE proof.

I don’t like it because my feed gets flooded with low quality content that’s only there because the poster used that particular hashtag. It needs sorting like Reddit, so that I can keep the good quality content on top, but also have a chronological option if I ever get bored.

It makes no sense to choose chronological when you can make it optional. Bluesky is much, much better in this regard.

That’s my other issue with Mastodon, it’s development doesn’t seem that open, it feels like the head dude isn’t really open to change. When asked about fixing search, he said it was “intentional” and he wanted people to search less. Seems weird, let the users have the choice, right?

Heck, even Bluesky, which is VC funded feels more open than Mastodon at times.