I had no idea Duolingo was assisting ICE, what a shame, theres ** LanguageTransfer ** which is opensource if anyone is interested

More on the subject in an article from 404media: The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring

It says in the article

The major saw an unemployment rate of 6.1 percent, just under those top majors like physics and anthropology, which had rates of 7.8 and 9.4 percent respectively.

Computer engineering, which at many schools is the same as computer science, had a 7.5 percent unemployment rate, calling into question the job market many computer science graduates are entering.

On the other hand, majors like nutrition sciences, construction services and civil engineering had some of the lowest unemployment rates, hovering between 1 percent to as low as 0.4 percent.

This data was based on The New York Fed's report, which looked at Census data from 2023 and unemployment rates of recent college graduates.

PieFed has wikis and flairs for communities, Feed feature similar to how people can create their own custom feeds on Bluesky and Topics feature to browse content by subject, you can filter posts by keywords (Lemmy has it too but not on the default interface), warning label by the side of the name of people with too many negative karma/points/reputation to make it easier to spot trolls and some other fun things if you ever want to try it out although theres no mobile app for iOS afaik yet if thats a dealbreaker for you, but theres for android https://codeberg.org/freamon/pferd/

AFAIK there was another exodus after they announced to be training AI based on Reddit content, another when they went public, another for starting heavily censoring more the platform (some people a while ago were getting banned just for saying Luigi or upvoting posts with it)

Flohmarkt is nice but not too many people using it yet so it might be hard to find some things

TheVerge covered it nicely

Good choice, its a lot better IMO it just takes getting used to how to browse around specific communities if you are searching for one from when you were on Lemmy but so far everything else is better, just missing TOTP 2FA but its not critically urgent for now anyway. Take that as I dont moderate communities though I'm not very aware of the differences of moderation of communities between PieFed and Lemmy

not disagreeing with you but i couldnt find EFF talking about it lately unless i missed it

PieFed becoming a lot more akin to an evolved Reddit than Lemmy lately with the recent updates

Your instance is already hosting a PieFed instance on the side you can confirm here , its piefed.blahaj.zone

PFerd is also nice for PieFed on Android

if you are interested in subscribing to blogs from Blogspot, on Fediverse, you could do that by adding /feeds/posts/default at the end, on Friendica

Good move on putting up a chat, piefed.social did the same and has been useful for when it has been down

Here a table info with others non-STEM degrees unemployement rate: Labor Market Outcomes of College Graduates by Major ^^.xlsx

It's from the same source as the OP's article (The New York Fed), you'll see it says last updated in 2025 but if you scroll down you'll see them mentioning it to be 2023 data which is what the article was based on too

That would be Pixelfed , maybe you just confused the names :)

If you are looking for fediverse Facebook, theres Friendica but in that case I find Friendica better if you're going to selfhost for you and your friends to use for having a different use case, also supports bridging with plenty of Fediverse platforms and Fediverse-friendly platforms like Bluesky and even pull RSS Feeds into your feed, its quite the tool if you are willing to selfhost or any of your friends IRL are

thanks i wasnt aware of such person i noticed he posts some interesting things so i'll keep an eye on him although im still too early to judge him at least on the Librefox video he seems rather childish on how he talks for someone complaining of a dev stance to then see target audience people in the comments talking about using Brave is pretty lame, if they were going to something like Ladybird (not ready for endusers yet) or Konqueror or Falkon it'd make more sense, I also watched the video about the BSDCan and it just gave me the wrong impression of him or hes really childish for my taste though I'll try watching his other videos when I can to be sure I'm maybe not misjudging him

By the way Fedecan (nonprofit behind lemmy.ca and sh.itjust.works) is already hosting a PieFed instance you can confirm here , its piefed.ca

what do you use now? i particularly like LibreFox but im not aware of controversies surround it if there are

I'm not a regular follower but Louis Rossmann does similar videos but not all the same subjects (however tech-only too) and he talks more coherently at first impression