Not too familiar with the fediverse or anything, kinda got violently plunged here cause the internet is setting itself on fire, so please be kind lol, I’m a “normie” here.
As the title says: is there any good usable alternatives to the mentioned platforms? If possible something close or on par with their features? There doesn’t seem to be anything of the sort as far as I know, not counting mastodon or pixelfed as those aren’t in the same field to the mentioned platforms. Anything’s appreciated, thx.
I mean it also does just appeal to a very different demographic than the fediverse has been built by.
Reddit/lemmy is a favored format for technical folks and twitter/Mastodon is very general purpose (facebook is more so, but it’s not really a many-to-many network)
Pinterest and DeviantArt are worthwhile pretty much exclusively to arts folks (which is also just a narrow demographic for something as niche as the fediverse), and the fediverse is pretty oriented towards technical folks, as that’s who built it. You also see that pattern in linux, the development of which has significantly more technical resources than design, with the notable exception of GNOME (not to say it’s objectively good or right for everyone, just that they balance their resources differently)
Like a solid half of the fediverse is just technical open source nerds. Who I love, mind you, but it isn’t exactly the category of people likely to value pinterest, or DeviantArt.