what fediverse services do you use
and why do you use the fediverse
and maybe optionally do you think that peertube is good
mine: i use lemmy and mastodon and i use the fediverse because i want to help open source not for the big platform’s being bad
Lemmy, Mastadon, and a bunch of old school forum sites. I tried piefed and the UI isn’t quite the right fit that lemmy is for me.
I can’t be bothered to care, or have the time to keep up with, whoever’s weekly petty political nuance about who runs what instance and why they’re each a faschio-socialist whatever. If I wanted social media run by 8th graders, I would be on Truth Social.
I’m trying out Piefed. Lemmy looks like relatively good software, but I don’t like the political views of the developers behind Lemmy. Their whole shtick seems to be “non-western countries good, western countries bad”.
Of course, western countries have done many bad things. But I think plenty of non-western countries have also done bad things. I just don’t buy into a narrative which always tries to paint western countries as “the bad guys” and non-western countries as “the good guys”.
I only use Lemmy. I tried Mastodon but it was too similar (in its principle) to Twitter which I disliked.
I came on Lemmy because I was starting to get tired of looking at Reddit : always the same stories and content too much filitered. Then the API thing happened so it was over for me, since I only used third party clients.
I stayed because tech and discussions.
I started exploring Lemmy/Kbin during Reddit’s API drama. I use Lemmy daily, mostly just lurking, but occasional participation. I probably participate here more than I did on Reddit. I post to & scroll through Pixelfed occasionally, definitely more than I ever used Instagram. My Mastodon account is essentially abandoned. I never had a Twitter account, so not exactly surprising. Oh, I also briefly tried Loops, never used TikTok. I’m not big on videos, so I haven’t tried Peertube.
I’m tired of billionaires and big tech and want to support alternatives.
Pretty much only Lemmy. I use it because I believe centralized social media and the companies that run it are killing the internet, and want to put energy into something that might replace it instead of creating free content for Reddit as I did for years.
I have Piefed and Mastodon accounts. I prefer the “old reddit” style and the Piefed instance I’m on doesn’t have it so I can’t really get into it. I hate all these supposedly “modern” UIs yells at clouds.
Mastodon is different, it’s fine, I guess. I check it out now and then. For many years I’ve tried to understand microblogging. I just fucking don’t. I never understood Twitter, I’ve always found it obnoxious and inscrutable, even before the Nazi takeover. Mastodon seems like a less fleshed-out version of Twitter, so, again, I just don’t get it. Lemmy? Upvote, downvote. Mastodon… favorite? bookmark? boost? Are replies threaded, I can’t really tell. Does anybody see my posts at all? I’m following like a hundred hashtags and yet my feed is all from one news blogger I’ve never heard of. I just don’t get it. So just every now and then I post a picture of a loaf of bread I baked or something and people seem to do things that cause my notifications to light up once or twice.
only lemmy dont have the energy to switch, besides the last one went down last year.
I’ve had my Lemmy account since 2 years but admittedly spent most of my time on ‘the other site’. Until today, as I got banned for 3 days due to a single word. It was the push that I needed as I’ve now deleted my account and will use Lemmy exclusivly.
What was the word?
ive been here for 1, originally on ee. before that suddenly died , big istance had alot more content then now, unfortunately, because people scattered too much. i recently made an acct on that site too, nope so sudden ban.
I came from reddit when the API thing shut down my mobile app of choice (RIP Baconreader). I tried lemmy and kbin right away, but couldn’t really get into kbin. This is my only active social media account, unless you count an occasional steam review as social media. I have been using the jerboa app and it works nicely.
You match me aside that Mastodon is my most used followed by Lemmy and then Bookwyrm.
Same here. The only socials I have beyond this are Strava, a few Discord communities for tech support-type stuff and YouTube comments if that counts.
The Reddit API exodus was the canary in the coal mine for me. My entire technical/social life changed for the better after that.
I use Lemmy and Mastodon.
What’s not to like? Actual human responses and nice people, no ads, no ai, and no algorithm deciding what I see.
well great for you
Only Lemmy. Switched to it from Reddit a while ago when they really started to show that their users were for sale. I’m also a big advocate for privacy. Never used Peertube much as there isn’t much content. I use NewPipe
While peertube has no content you can follow the channels from here and interact with it, that is what I am doing and it does not feel as empty as doing it over there. (Also you do not have to create a new account!) Does not solve the content problem but I think it good to use it for those creators that are !thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com It actually works fairly well with lemmy (alot better than mastodon as the design and concept is not compatible), just that posts rarely get the same burst of interaction that things on lemmy get which is why it never shows up on your feed. Lemmy gets multicomms in 1.0 though so you can create one for peertube.
well do you hope that peertube will have content
I use lemmy primarily. I’ll use mastodon for the occasional watch party, but otherwise I’m inactive there. I’m currently exploring both loops and Pixelfed, but not sure how I feel about either yet. I’ve been meaning to look into peertube, bookwyrm, and neodb.
I just use Lemmy.
I used to browse imgur but they allowed advertising for AfD which caused me to search for a more ethical feeling platform.
wait so far right parties use imgur to advertise themselves
I stopped using imgur when they got it in their heads they wanted to be social media instead of an image hosting site. The few times I’ve tried to follow a link there recently it’s been unusable, this is just icing on the shit cake
pretty much just piefed et al. I think of it as the federation. I used to love the old newsgroups back in the day and eventually found slashdot when the millenium was new and later reddit but this is the closest I have been to newsgroups to me. the alt. rec. etc thing. they actually got ruined by spam. I think they would still be big if they had user filter config type of stuff.
Ive hosted and contributed to a couple of federated platforms. Just little pull requests to help us all along.
The current list that I use is:
- Mastodon
- Peertube
- Piefed
- GotoSocial (kinda sorta same as mastodon)
- And just today catodon.rocks
Ive also hosted:
- pixelfed
- lemmy
- freindica
- funkwhale
And a number I forgot about. snac looked interesting too.
Of all of them Gotosocial has been the most stable for single user instance, piefed fuels my addition, peertube got my dog lots of subscriptions, and mastodon remains a stable.
Im having an absolutely fantastic time.
