yeah, I’ve been thinking about setting up Lemmy or kbin…but I wonder if they are just ghost towns ala PeerTube. And if they won’t federate with something as big as Pleroma, I’m not interested in putting in the effort.
As much as we say Fediverse, the reality is it’s really about Mastodon and the variants. I do like that WriteFreely integrates pretty well so I have 2 blogs there. Pixelfed may be decent, but as I have no use for Instagram I’ve left it alone. The rest seem to be just a few enthusiasts for that app. Kind of like Nostr. I love the idea and set up a Ditto instance, but damn, unless you want to talk BitCoin and Nostr, there’s not much else happening over there.
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