I've been mentoring students on http://trydesignlab.com/ for a while (until I launched my own course) and it's a great point to start. They have a UX Academy where you learn from the basics to create a fully-functional portfolio site with 3-4 case studies. Source: about 3 years ago

I'm on pixey.org instance and when I view @dansup@pixelfed.social from my instance, I see that he only has 41 followers and 75 posts but when I see his profile on pixelfed.social instance via incognito, I see that he has 10k followers and 556 posts (as of 11 July, 2023). Source: 11 months ago

Where are you thinking of moving to? Some others I've looked at: Https://cohost.org/ - one of the more promising ones I've seen Blue Sky - but fuck dorsey, amirite? Https://twtxt.net - indie twitter clone Https://calckey.org/ federated Https://spacehey.com/ 🙃 Https://pixelfed.social/ (federated but popular as an insta alternative) Https://wt.social/ (from wikipedia, is getting a face lift soon but seems... Source: about 1 year ago

I am unsure, but I have decided to make my account at pixelfed.social. Source: about 1 year ago

Instagram being a pictures sharing app (at some point) would be pixelfed.social. Source: about 1 year ago

Or here mastodon.social for micro-bloging or here pixelfed.social for pictures sharing or.... Source: about 1 year ago