I understand your frustration! Unfortunately I don’t have an easy answer.

The culture on Lemmy can cause a fair bit of confusion at first. We have this phenomenon where people migrate here and want to have all the niche communities that existed where they came from without the users required to maintain those places. As a result we have a lot of communities with little to no interaction because it’s usually just one or two people contributing. The situation you’re describing is a pretty common example of this.

If you’re looking for existing communities you may have better luck finding them on Lemmyverse. If you still don’t find the type of place you’re looking for, you might consider creating a community for the more generalized content you want to share. If that isn’t something you feel comfortable taking on alone, maybe others would be willing to help you run it and keep things active. Lemmy is full of people looking for places to participate!

It wasn’t an endorsement of their policies, just a place that the videos you asked about have been popping up.

!crazyfuckingvideos@lemmy.world

I want my posts to be accesable

If you mean you want to move the entire account to somewhere else as if it started there, you can’t. If you were to create an account on a new instance and imported your old profile data you’d save yourself the time of resubscribing to communities etc but your post history would be brand new again. You can have accounts/alts on multiple instances though and people often do. Some people keep them as backups, some swap accounts multiple times a day for whatever reason.

Using an alternative frontend is different. You login using the same credentials you already have on that instance. All that changes is the UI you’re using, everything on the backend is still the same and you are still the same person to the rest of the Fediverse.

1. Is it that some servers have better UI ?

Some offer multiple frontends so the look changes but the underlying server/content is the same. You can see some examples of them here:

https://old.crazypeople.online/
https://voyager.crazypeople.online/
https://alexandrite.crazypeople.online/
https://photon.crazypeople.online/

There are also other platforms like PieFed that interact with Lemmy pretty much seamlessly.

2. How do I migrate?

You don’t necessarily have to migrate, you can just make a new account on any other server and import your profile settings like subscriptions/blocks/etc.

3. Also, is it possible there are isolated federated networks of leemy (other activity protocol)?

Any instance can defederate from any of the others for any reason. While there are probably stand alone instances that don’t federate at all, most of them have chosen blacklist or whitelist federation to wall off the content they don’t want on their servers. Some of them block more aggressively and for different reasons, but there are so many at this point there’s almost certainly one that would be a good fit for you if you aren’t happy where you’re at.

Trust/Honesty

You can’t build anything lasting on lies.

Symfonium is ridiculously customizable and well worth the one time cost IMO, but like you said it requires purchase and through the Play store.

DSub is on Fdroid and works well though it lacks many of the customization options that Symfonium has. It’s kind of like a mobile mode of the default Navidrome webUI.

Those are the two I keep installed at all times because I use them for different things. The other options for Android either had weird quirks I didn’t like or didn’t offer functionality I needed.

If you’re using the app, uninstall it. Delete your bookmarks, etc. Make it more than an idle thought to be on the site.

Use the time you would normally spend doomscrolling on reddit to do something productive on Lemmy. Look for new communities to join, reply to posts you would normally just upvote, post something to a community that could use a boost, etc. The place is far from empty but more interaction really helps to drive growth and build friendships.

See you around mate. 💚

I just post what I’m listening to at !eternalplaylist@crazypeople.online and other people can listen or not. There’s a bot that posts youtube links when you post paid services so pretty much anyone can listen to anything being shared.

To a certain extent I think the list of goals has sort of defaulted to development related stuff. A lot of the growth across the fediverse is being driven by whatever mass exodus is happening at any given time. There’s definitely a desire to onboard more people more organically but it’s hard when people are expecting drop in replacements for the largest social networks on the planet.

There seem to be a lot of people who are looking for easier ways to introduce people to federated social media as a whole. If you search around I’m sure you’ll find an assortment of posts outlining their ideas about what makes Lemmy/the fediverse harder to use. Maybe that’s a good place to start building a more comprehensive list of what’s needed to grow more on merit and not as a last resort.

If I’m understanding your question correctly the answer is “sort of.” The main community I know of is !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com which sees pretty regular activity but it’s more focused on promoting the fediverse rather than a checklist of goals. That’s the closest one to what you’re asking for that I’m aware of.

ye olde whippersnapper

You’re welcome to check the sidebar on crazypeople.online to see if it’s a good fit for you. The same goes for anyone else who’s interested.