I’ve come to realize that being endlessly absorbed by AI slop and brainrot, especially Instagram reels constantly shared between friends,...

I wrote about my motivations and thoughts on switching away from centralized social media and to the Fediverse with some thoughts on self-hosting.

  • pseudo@jlai.luEnglish
    2·
    5 days ago

    using something like Mastodon is no harder than signing up for X or Facebook. The difference is you won’t be treated like a product, you’ll be treated like a person.

    I like this. I might reuse it.

    • incentive@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      4·
      7 days ago

      I nuked the internal network by mistake. Working on fixing it right now

      edit It’s back up now if you’d like to try again :)

      • grandel@lemmy.mlEnglish
        71·
        7 days ago

        Not everybody is a tanky here.

        I joined waay before the reddit API change and .ml was like one of three available instances.

        • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
          72·
          7 days ago

          And there’s often useful perspectives shared there, even if not necessarily agreeable.

        • dizzy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          51·
          7 days ago

          Yeah same, we’re just early adopters.

          I don’t think there even were other instances back then.