I'm new to this fediverse stuff and I'm loving this concept. Now I want to try pixelfed. can someone recommend me an instance for me?

evirac@vlemmy.net to Fediverse@lemmy.world – 27 points –

I'd like to login on an instance that doesn't block other instances and I get to decide what and what not I want to see

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metapixl.com has a nice URL and is seldom down. That said, it's not the most active, so you're likely to get traffic via hashtags rather than locally.

Edit: just seen they're launching pixelfed.com as the default instance later this month, so that might be worth a wait if you want lots of foot traffic.

I've never had Instagram😂 so kindly explain why I can't just see everything like lemmy? Logically we all can see each other's content here so that should be the case there as well no?

That is the case, but in the pixelfed app, you essentially get 3 timelines, federated which shows everyone across all instances, local which shows people on your instance and following which shows the people you're following.

I don't think you will find that but maybe you can find an instance that has similar values to you. Other than that you can only host it yourself.