Discovering the #fediverse gives me the same feelings #linux did years ago. The endless choice, excitement of discovery, clash of philosophies and a community.
I spent years #distrohopping from #ubuntu , #arch , #voidlinux , #nixos etc and then back to arch. Also spent a long time switching desktop environments and window managers like i3.
I started on #lemmy and #mastodon . What do I try next? #selfhost an #activitypub server? Which one?
@bshankar #Pixelfed for sure if you're into photography...and #NeoDB https://NeoDB.social if you want a better alternative to Goodreads + music/movies reviews, you can also single sign-on via your Mastodon account.
@ahodroj Seems interesting. I'll check it out.
@bshankar@mastodon.online what's important is that u don't have to have accounts everywhere. you caw follow someone's pixelfed account from mastodon.
there is lemmy which is a forum, sort of like reddit, but also federated. you don't even have to have a lemmy account, you can follow topics fro mastodon or something else.
@bshankar@mastodon.online there are many.
if i was installing something which looks like microblogging site i would choose gotosocial.
@bshankar How about https://nodebb.org ? Currently finding the prospect of a classic forum on the fediverse quite interesting.
Haha...
Self host was my next thought. But then, I thought, just find a nice comfortable instance with a decent word limt, 2048 in this case, and enjoy. (And an awesome admin, 'eh Jeff).
@avoca That's true. I'm also considering moving to a comfortable server hahah. But I'm a bit nervous about losing all my toots on the old instance. We need #nomadicidentity in the fediverse.
@bshankar If you don't mind me asking: I'm curious why did you switch from NixOS to Arch?. I feel like I might have reached the end of distrohopping with NixOS. Or at least I don't see myself going back to an imperatively configured OS again as the advantages are too great.
@anji #nixos is really great! I just moved to a location where data is slow and limited.
#Nix rebuilds all child derivations when a dependency updates. So if there's an update for tiny packages like libc you pretty much have to download 2-6 GB and rebuild your whole system.
I do like transparency and making quick changes in #arch . I'm considering #serpentos . It seems like a nice middle ground.
@bshankar Oh yeah, that's totally fair. NixOS does consume a lot of bandwidth and storage space.
Arch is a great distro. In fact a lot of distros are pretty great and usable these days :)
Also spent a long time switching desktop environments and window managers like i3.
have you settled yet 
I have lost the attention span to configure a window manager otherwise I would be using what all the cool kids use nowadays - maybe 
@bshankar I use tumbleweed + sway
Also trying cosmic DE.
Emacs is an operating system. I daily drived it for a considerable amount of time.
Helix is cool. I wish to onboard when plugin system is merged. Now using neovim
@kskarthik Great! I've used neovim (lunarvim) too.
@bshankar okay! https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvimis also nice starting point
@bshankar @kskarthik MATE / Compiz / Emerald
@cenbe @kskarthik I really like mate and compiz. I used to set Cube and sphere animation for switching desktops in compiz
Also spent a long time switching desktop environments and window managers like i3.
Cosmic DE is a good balance of i3 like window management & GNOME like UI
@kskarthik I've yet to try it because it's still in alpha but I'm quite excited about it though. :)
Cosmic and serpentos.
