Post #1929306

On the first point, one of the reasons I use and would suggest either Mbin or Friendica. Both are hybrid, meant to bring together microblogging and threads, like Mastodon and Lemmy, and by extension, a bigger chunk of the fediverse. On the second point, if you want to keep things floating around, maybe cross-post them to a personal community in a separated instance. The line between preservation and redundancy is often non-existant. Other than that, there are some things you could do like commenting or boosting derelict posts from dead instances, to help keeping them floating. On the third point, I suppose Lemmy can be a bit laborious to find new stuff, so specially for it, I'd suggest places like !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !trendingcommunities@lemmy.cafe, though maybe those would defeat the purpose. Alternatively, and bringing Mbin and Friendica a third time, they have boost features, so if someone you follow boosts posts, they get included in your feed (note: boosts in the feed are opt-in on Mbin). On the fourth point, on the threadiverse side of things, Lemmy can be a bit isolated indeed. With microblogging and by extension (ahem) hybrid thread/microblogging platforms, there are more options, like trending tags bots, RSS Parrot, Bridgy Fed, and easier connection to less standard places using ActivityPub. RSS Parrot in special I'm finding pretty useful. Most stuff I follow is in places with RSS, so I can add them to the bot to have in my feed. And back on point 1, whatever I can use on browsers, I do. If I don't get a function natively, I make Ublock Origin filters and Violentmonkey scripts. If I can't figure out, I ask LLMs to generate something that works for me. If I need to open links to other instances because of e.g. RSS, I have [an userscript](https://pastebin.com/3qPsgR63) I keep increasing that redirects the links to my instance's search page, since searches are hardcoded in the link.