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Where they at tho?
We all know there’s barely enough people here. It’s not unusable, but there are so few people it’s always the same users posting and commenting, and it can be a bit dead occasionally.
I’m committed to the fediverse, but we could do with another big push from people dumping Reddit. Part of that would also rely on us (🫵) not being obnoxious towards the potential new users 👀
They're on Mastodon and Misskey for the most part.
Wait what's Misskey?
It’s a Mastodon type microblogging service but I think I read it’s popular in Japan and South Korea.
Just how many are there for micro blogging? I saw pleroma and akkoma too.
There must be a dozen or so Misskey forks. I know of Sharkey, Firefish, and Iceshrimp.
On this end we also have Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, Piefed, and I think one or two more
Basically bloated mastodon
There are a lot of forks of Misskey which are more popular in the "West". I recommend you to have a look at Firefish, Iceshrimp, Catodon or Sharkey. Firefish used to gain a lot of traction but there was some personal drama going on with the original maintainer, causing the project to feel unmaintained for a while. Luckily the do have a new maintainer now. Anyway partially due to this problem some folk like the former community manager created a new fork Catodon. Iceshrimp also another direct fork of Firefish. So a bit of trivia from the FOSS Mastodon world. In the you might as well just use Mastodon if you are fine with the UI. But I love that we have so much variety in the FOSS ActivityPub World.