I too have dumped Fakebook, Mastodon, and X.

I've been on diaspora for years now, and it's the only one I've stuck with even when my "pod" discontinued and I had to "start over" on another. Here's why I stick with diaspora:

• It has by far the simplest and most intuitive user interface of any of the federated / distributed platforms,
• It's not loaded down and cluttered with features most users never use anyway
• You build your experience on Diaspora. It doesn't suggest "people you may know" or "stuff you might like."

It takes time to make diaspora what you wish it to be for you, since you build your own experience by following #hashtags at first, perhaps, then following people who interest you. I use the #Aspects feature to create "groups" here just like I had on Fakebook - only better.

Welcome, and enjoy!

I post via email to a Wordpress blog, but if I want to share on diaspora I just copy-and-paste the URL into a diaspora post.

Diaspora is awesome because it doesn't have a whole boatload of features that people don't even both with or even want. It's simple UI makes it the easiest to learn of all the "Fediverse" platforms. Uncluttered, intuitive, simple.

I also really like that you build your experience here on diaspora: It won't suggest "people you may know" or "stuff you might like." It takes time to make it what I want it to be, just following #hashtags and #profiles at first, then following people and using #aspects to make "groups."

Cross-posting is nice I guess, for the half-dozen or so people who bother with it, but I'd rather see it easier for devs and podmins to manage by doing without those extra features, than to see it "die on the vine" because it's too much to manage or develop for the generous few who do the work behind the scenes.