Open app on phone and search them up.

Or go to the instance I use and search them up

Oh neat I didn’t know that.

I feel with mastodon it’s different because instances don’t host communities to subscribe to. Just people to follow

Yes the choose was there but it automatically was filled with a default instance.

Idk I find Lemmy easier to use. I go to Lemmy site -> I use site

I go to reddit -> I get asked to turn of my VPN -> get asked to login -> get asked to download mobile app -> accept cookies -> I finally use site.

Damn reddit is so much easier

The irony of a self hosted community refusing to self host…

Honestly back during the API fiasco I was honestly expecting the mods their to make their own instance together. The fact they didn’t blew me away

That’s also reddit tho…

I completely forgot about this term. Sums up everything

Like I said in my comment tho. When I downloaded the app it automatically chose for me. I just made an account there and boom.

I guess but with mastodon I literally cannot imagine it getting any easier.

Download app -> make an account (the app will default to some instance, at least it did for me) -> use it exactly like Twitter.

I don’t understand why that’s always true but yes

Yeah I’m not either that’s not the point. The point is using an alternative that is open and can be self hosted.

I community dedicated and in love with the idea of self hosting their own software yet avoid a self hosted alternative to a hostile service…

I actually don’t think anyone in the subreddit is actually self hosting anything and if they are the irony is heavier than actual iron.

For me it’s definitely Lemmy. I don’t like the microblogging format and never have. I’ve always used forums and then reddit.

The fediverse just works so well with Lemmy I think. It’s so fun seeing new communities from instances I’ve never heard of. I think this format is perfect for the fediverse

These companies have billion to spend on developing a chip so why give that money to arm when they could make their own risc-v chip without royalty fees

This looks so nice and very promising. You’ve raised my hopes

Old discord when it first came out was nice

All I need is a client that looks and feels like discord to replicate voice channels and I will switch to matrix and host my own instance

Wat?

In my case it didn’t work great. Without 3rd party apps reddit died. I see your point tho. Some people are fine with a buggy ass client full of ads