jollyroberts

Same. I loved reddit before it went to h*ll. Now I run my own PieFed instance just for myself and even if the other devs give up on the project I know it will still be there. Cause it’s mine

Oooh, good point. That would mess with Lemmyverse data, which would be annoying for discovery

“Six Head”

Ah, yeah fair point there.

I follow hashtags I like, then see who the people are who use those tags, then follow those people.

I find that I discover people that way I would not have found otherwise.

It’s worked well for me so far. I wasn’t a twitter person before though, so I don’t know if I have the experience you did for comparison.