I use Mastodon for conversations, thoughts, daily life - as a journal one could say. There, I only follow ~60 people and am only followed by ~50. Thus my feed isn't cluttered and I am surrounded by people I like (some of them I even know in person).

Pixelfed - to me - is a totally different story. I am not here every day, this account is not locked, I don't (usually ) engage in conversations, I am followed by an (to me) unbelievable amount of people. This is my haven when all I want to do is look at beautiful photos and keep it light.

The Fediverse is so big. It caters to every need, but it takes getting used to and finding the right instance, app, software/platform.

So, don't give up, try things out and maybe learn to accept that this is not run by one giant company with tons of money and therefore things aren't perfect or may take longer.

In the end, it's worth it

I love the freedom and diversity of the Fediverse and am very grateful to Dan and Eugen and all the others who developed all of this

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