Comment by cobertos
2 years ago
I've stopped following pretty much everything except HN. Which is unfortunate (though sorta nice for my mental health), but my interests right now are also narrow.
I'd suggest Lemmy? It still feels small, and has decent activity for self-hosting and homelab stuff after the whole reddit API debacle. That's where I plan to put more effort once I stand up my own ActivityPub server. Id like to try Mastodon again too but I bounced off last time
I only visit two sites without question each day: BBC News and HN. And that already occupies too much of my day.
I used to follow a lot of communities, but many of them have died out over the years for various reasons.
One of the things I've been trying to do recently is to get out and attend local meetups. The resolution and depth of the discussion IRL can be much deeper. And it makes me realize that most people aren't on Hacker News!
Tildes is pretty good. Still small and text focused.
I was enjoying Discuit but then they added images, and now it's just another stream of memes.