hey, how has your experience in those federated platforms been?
I’ve tried Mastodon but feel more attracted to Pixelfed’s simplicity, however I tried to sign up to test but my email was flagged as “invalid” despite it being non-temporal lol so I’d like to hear some opinions so I wouldn’t mind trying with another provider if it catches my attention
regarding NeoDB, I track my media on text notes, and while it’s fine it’s easy to forget what those titles actually were only by their names after some time
however, I know not every item in my lists will be available in NeoDB catalogue and porting it whole would take a lot of time also, I’ve read that NeoDB doesn’t have a “delete account” button for users, is it true?
Not your question, but just want to talk about the Mastodon bit.
I’ve always been interested in microblogging platforms since Twitter originally released, but I’ve never been able to really engage with them. Over the years I tried Twitter numerous times, later X, tried Bluesky a couple of times, and also tried Mastodon and failed to stick with it.
However lately I’ve switched to Sharkey (using Aria on Android), which is a fork of Misskey. Sharkey federates with Mastodon, Misskey, and a couple of others that I’m mind blanking on right now.
It’s only been coming up to a month since I switched, and I’m absolutely loving it! Plenty of engagement, the Antennas keywords and phrases thing is awesome, and it’s just really nice to be on a platform like that without a damn algorithm dictating what I consume
I’m still trying to understand the microblogging “paradigm”, any tips? I might try them again
Don’t care about follower numbers, and post what’s on your mind or engage with others as you see fit. The big one for me though was curating my tabs (feeds), using Antennas was easy for this. So for example, my ‘Home’ tab is an Antenna tab with a bunch of keywords and phrases that I’m looking for, for example ‘linux gaming’ and ‘retro gaming’.
Took some setup, but super happy with it now