Few more listed on the links here

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities#_3-look-through-other-instances-🌐

mander.xyz is nice for all the STEM communities

Manually downloading HTML posts would be more difficult, but it might be possible by parsing the data export you can download from Facebook

IIRC they stopped collecting data briefly because it was affecting the sites they were checking. They must have fixed that since it’s running again

On my end, both were pretty bad

Content moderation seemed to be non-existent, and the reports might as well have gone into the trash

Also no matter how much I tried to control the feed, I’d still get content that was gross (trypophobia), sexual, or chumbox like.

[no major spoilers in this comment]

I asked two separate friends in the medical field for what they thought of the show, and both of them started with saying that the character is annoying 😄

I think that’s the goal, since there ARE people like that in the field that are difficult to work with. It also gives her room to grow and be ‘humbled’ through the course of the show.

Maybe Snapchat

I’ve always heard of snapchat being the worst of them all, so maybe it depends on what kind of content you follow?

I with the Pixelfed creator would just focus on Pixelfed, I use that and it’s a total win, just needs some kinks worked out and more popularity.

Now that they have some funding and are building up a small team, it might let them focus on a few things at once. I agree though that it won’t replace Tiktok. At this point, doomscrolling is a psychological addiction that takes effort to move away from.

The key is that you need to subscribe to the type of content you want to see. There’s no company here deciding what your feed is going to be.

@[email protected], what kind of stuff are you interested in? I’m happy to help you find related communities :)

I can also see some people being opposed to them spending the donation money on ads, since they’d be giving money to companies that may be in opposition to what we’re doing here (or ideological reasons around the advertising industry in general).

Maybe if there was a separate pool of donations specifically for advertising, then people who want to support that can donate to it? Those who don’t can still donate to the projects themselves

Interestingly

https://lemmy.ca/comment/5057563

The original reddit was closer to hackernews than the generic site it is now. Not only that but spez has admitted that the original traffic was artificial, by which I mean, the owners themselves were creating fake engagement through various means, such as scraping and cross-posting content from sites like digg via sockpuppets to appear that the site had way more traffic than it had.

Yup, and Reddit started in 2005 (which is 2 decades ago now) with its large migration in 2010. Lemmy only really got going in 2023, and it’s growing

Misskey is a Mastodon style platform, that is popular in Japan and existed from a while back. They added activitypub support in 2018

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misskey

I usually don’t check them unless I need to reference something, but I recommend the alternative UIs for looking through old messages. The default Lemmy UI makes it annoying to follow along in past conversations, while Photon for example has a chat layout

How does that work, is it done through school?

There was some discussion about it here (Canada) last summer

https://globalnews.ca/news/10610765/bc-mandatory-swimming-lessons/

For astronomy there is [email protected]. The communities on mander.xyz are STEM focussed and usually well moderated.

You could also try

• [email protected]

• [email protected]

• [email protected]

As for the instance, stay wherever you feel most comfortable. I have a few alts on other instances, including lemmy.world. You’re also free to move later if you decide to.

If it helps I am based in the UK.

You can also check out the instance / communities at

https://feddit.uk/

You might be better off looking for a community where the moderation optimizes for that kind of discussion (ex. Removing low effort comments, requiring citations, academic oriented, etc). It’s harder to find an entire instance that matches those points, but there should be a few communities like that

Then you can use the subscribed feed only, or block the communities you don’t like