PieFed is FOSS. It runs in a docker container with fewer resources than Lemmy so you could self-host your own instance if you wanted - see e.g. https://jeena.net/lemmy-switch-to-piefed for one person’s irl story attempting to do both.
Other alternatives, besides Lemmy, are Kbin, now forked into Mbin, nodeBB, and flarum at least announced that it would but I am not so sure it will follow through. And that’s just the Threadiverse: there’s still so much in the wider Fediverse as well, like besides Mastodon there’s Pixelfed, and Friendica, Loops is coming up, etc.
You don’t ever have to go back to big tech again.
Unless you want content, since we don’t have endless varieties like them. This is the price we who stay here pay.
PieFed is FOSS. It runs in a docker container with fewer resources than Lemmy so you could self-host your own instance if you wanted - see e.g. https://jeena.net/lemmy-switch-to-piefed for one person’s irl story attempting to do both.
Other alternatives, besides Lemmy, are Kbin, now forked into Mbin, nodeBB, and flarum at least announced that it would but I am not so sure it will follow through. And that’s just the Threadiverse: there’s still so much in the wider Fediverse as well, like besides Mastodon there’s Pixelfed, and Friendica, Loops is coming up, etc.
You don’t ever have to go back to big tech again.
Unless you want content, since we don’t have endless varieties like them. This is the price we who stay here pay.
Your comment made me want to try and self host pie fed, I hope your happy