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We have bookwyrm.social, which does an excellent job at replacing the need for goodreads (which is owned by Amazon). But is there an alternative to imdb.com?

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PS- The "real" (non-joke) full guide for the Masto-curious is here.

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cross-posted from: literature.cafe/post/1133610...

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With the mass migrations of Reddit users to Lemmy/Kbin, and Twitter now speedrunning its own mass extinction, it seems me that the eventual future of social media is de-centralized. I like how Lemmy is slowing turning out, even if it still has some work to do and growing pains to fix up. It’s still able to inform me of all of...

cross-posted from: lemmy.basedcount.com/post/114721...

cross-posted from: lemdit.com/post/44993...

I was never extremely active on Mastodon until recently but I followed it’s development relatively closely from its infancy. And I will say that it’s really strange to watch lemmy face nearly identical issues that Mastodon did when it was in a similar development stages. (Though, some of the drama thus far have been...

Pretty straight question....

To really own your content, I think you need to host it yourself. The fediverse makes it possible.

For those that have poked around other fediverse stuff beyond Lemmy, and been around the spaces awhile, what’s stuck out to you as stumbling blocks, or basic user experience fumbles? Which parts do you think may be technical, and which may be cultural?

Hey all! I’m interested in creating an account on mastodon, and am looking to build up a list of people to follow. Let me know who your must follows are!

I just discovered baraza.africa, which is an African focused instance....

I’ve noticed a lot of people complain that niche communities aren’t really all that present here or are difficult to find. Having some consolidated in specific instances is very helpful for discovery as well as spreading the federation around....

Things have been incredibly unstable there. Until things stabilise, they should force the traffic elsewhere.

There's a common false dichotomy about #Threads: cut them off, or leave it to user choice.I can't speak to other software, but Mastodon offers a third option: limiting Threads. This can be done for all users of a server....

There’s been an ongoing debate about whether communities should combine or stay separate. Both have significant disadvantages and advantages:...

Why do the instances keep going down? It makes me think that this is not a reliable social network, but the alternatives are not as good.