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What's your favourite non-Lemmy community (Magazine/Group etc.)? (libranet.de)

submitted 6 days ago by petrescatraian@libranet.de to c/chat

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With all that talk about Lemmy, it's great that Lemmy is thriving. However, the Fediverse goes beyond Lemmy. Do you know any communities that you like across Mbin or Piefed or whatever else instances? If so, which ones?

I followed quite a few interesting ones on Lotide and Kbin back in the day just to diversify my feed, but these projects are basically now abandoned.

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[–] rsl12 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I love Beehaw, but the number of loud tankies in the general fediverse is too much for me. I'll be happy when Beehaw manages to get away from Lemmy (if that's still in the plans).

Other than Beehaw, the two places I enjoy that are populated by actual, non-propaganda-focused people are:

tildes.net (really fabulous--like a small version of the way reddit was years ago)
pianotell.com (for piano-related talk)

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 6 points 6 days ago

Some non-Lemmy Groups that are interesting or might get interesting:

PieFed: !antisocialmedia@piefed.social
MBIN: !FloatingIsFun@fedia.io
PeerTube: !veronicaexplains@tinkerbetter.tube
WordPress: !dbzer0.com@dbzer0.com
NodeBB: !fediverse@forum.wedistribute.org
a.gup.pe: !photography@a.gup.pe

How well they backfill and inter-op is very platform-dependent, obvs (your platform and the remote platform)

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'll ask this for myself and anyone else who doesn't know: what are those you mention and how are they different from Lemmy?

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

@Paradachshund they're also some federated platforms that one can self-host.

Don't know much about Piefed, but it seems like it has some better moderation tools than Lemmy.

Mbin is a more (old) Reddit-like platform, also federated and self-hostable, which also has microblog capabilities.

Mbin was forked from Kbin sothe ethos of that one was similar.

Lotide is a more spartan bulletin board, kind of like Hacker News (but development of it stopped though).

All of them use the same standard for federation, so you can browse and post to these communities straight from Lemmy.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 3 points 6 days ago

Thanks!

[–] inverted_deflector@startrek.website 3 points 6 days ago

Ive been enjoying pixelfed lately.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I use mbin but I never look at where a post is coming from these days. I don't actually use subscriptions and just block things I'm explicitly not interested in as I see them so I take in a bit of everything.

[–] Fitik@fedia.io 3 points 6 days ago

Interesting, for me it's the opposite, I pretty much exclusively use "Subscribed" feed and almost never go to "All", because a lot of it is just stuff I don't care about

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 1 points 6 days ago

@tiredofsametab good strategy 😁 thanks!