So I've been barely active on Lemmy for a litany of reasons but I am active elsewhere. Specifically, Bluesky. I run an account that I've posted here a couple times called the Starfleet Press Office where I post lil tweets that take place kinda within the Star Trek universe, breaking the fourth wall to an extent. The idea is that the Department of Temporal Investigations owed a favor to the team in charge of the S.P.O so he got a temporal link to Bsky set up. For fun. So random tweets get posted that are commenting on current episodes (A few were made for different Lower Decks episodes as they were posted), other ones about just random events in the universe that I think would be funny (sometimes lining up with holidays, like some Santa teleportation nonsense), and others that take real world events and parody them in the Star Trek universe, like the ferengi CEO of a health insurance conglomerate getting killed.
I'm clearly doing something right because @RealGulDukat, the guy who posts Trump tweets as if Dukat said them, follows only 13 people on Bsky and one of them is me. So whatever nonsense I keep posting I'm just gonna stick with. Drop by and say hi!
I was never a huge fan of the idea of a federated internet but after engaging for it the past couple of years, I absolutely fucking hate it. Federation didn't lose me to Bsky so much as hurl me as fast as humanly possible.
Keep in mind this point of view is framed especially by multiple personal experiences of extremely petty, vindictive and pathetic admins of other instances who went FUCKING INSANE trying to purge me from the federation, as well as a handful of trolls that abused certain instances lack of admin to harass me or other mods. Then there's how active I am in talking to admins of multiple other instances of lemmy and of Mastodon and hearing the shit they put up with and the shit they do...
I haven't had the best of experiences.
Glad to hear you at least gave mastodon a try. There are some friendlier parts than that out there on the fediverse but if you're enjoying bsky so be it. Maybe we'll meet again some day after it eventually either implodes or federates.