Peertube seems somewhat active. Dunno if that counts as social media.

I’ve only played a bit, but so far the combat feels relatively boring, the story is good, and there’s a spell crafting mechanic that seems promising but has yet to deliver.

My god. Find something important to be angry about.

There are also like 300 other instances lol but yeah, it will improve.

I’ve been a lurker on reddit for the most part and it seems easier to talk on Lemmy. I guess because it’s a smaller community, or because your instance feels a little more private.

True. This might be less of a problem if it becomes really easy to transfer your account to another instance, because people would just drift away from the ads, especially if other instances started creating filters to block them.

I’m not saying it’s likely or would work, I’m just spitballing.

I imagine if Lemmy/the fediverse get big enough, corps will make accounts. It’s a small step from there to making their own instances, then modifying those instances so that they can see out, but you have to be registered locally to see in. I’m not sure how difficult that would be to implement.

Might seem naive, but I actually have a hard time imagining this. There’s just not a lot to make one instance more desirable than another, which seems like a bad thing, but I don’t think it is. I decided against signing up on lemmy.ml because it was laggy, so I went with a smaller instance- all the same content, but without the lag. If a lot of content gets created on one instance, there’s no pressure to pile in, because you can view, comment and interact from a different, smaller instance.