Mastodon, not my cup of tea (to be fair, neither was Twitter). I just don't find micro-blogging to be very engaging and my mind categorizes it as "brain rot".
Sharkey? Haven't heard of that one until I just googled it, but one look at their mascot and....no. Just... no.
Have been looking at joining Piefed instance, though.
Same here. I don’t mind microblogging, but I find it hard to find good content to follow on Mastodon. Also not a fan of my feed being filled with replies. Not having the thread right there for context is distracting and annoying.
No idea what sharkey is. Don’t really care to find out.
No, because they were alternates to social media whose formats I had no interest in before they went to shit as they all seemed to be accounts yelling into the cloud, not somewhere that conversations could happen.
I'm becoming a bigger and bigger fan of peer tube.
I also had mastadon for a non profit I supported and it seems like a good community with good content and lots of it.
At the same time, I've litterally never understood that particular way of both creating and interacting with content (I never understood Twitter, still don't get it).
I tried mastodon but it's not really the sort of thing I use even when there are accounts for me to follow. Also the way it links with Lemmy feels weird, you can always tell when someone replies to a post from mastodon because the formats don't link very well.
And the culture is just different. I'm not sure how to describe it, but I'll try. It's like...imagine the threadiverse portion of the fediverse as a library or a meeting room where people are having a quiet discussion. Mastodon accounts feel like they're barging in all loud and boorish like "HEYYYYY! LOOK AT ME!!! HASHTAG HASHTAG HASHTAG"
I think there is a real divide on the internet between those who prefer longer format conversations around posting reposts, and just, micro logged, idk, I don't want to be derogatory, but like, micro content?
I just throw it up as "I never got twitter", but it does precisely 0 for me.
I use both and I agree. I have a different mindset on mastodon, there I care more about who is saying something than what they say. I have a small group of people I care about. On lemmy/piefed I care about what someone says but not who they are. It's all about the topic.
Idk, on lemmy back-and-forth conversations are usually just a few replies at most, not particularly long format, unless you count length by all of the separate comments/branches
When people started to move over from twitter, the culture changed significantly. People treat mastodon like twitter not knowing all the "restrictions" like char count are things that can be adjusted in admin.
I started with mastodon but i can never get into that kind of social media. Everyone was super nice and i tried for a bit but it felt now like looking into people's lives rather than whatever this is. I prefer this.
The use case of Reddit/lemmy is entirely different from Twitter/x/mastodon. In Reddit/lemmy, there’s a topic of interest, and people chime in. In Twitter/etc, there’s people of interest, and they discuss topics.
I don’t care who is talking, I just want to talk about stuff. So the twitter style has zero interest for me.
Twitter wasn't a thing for me way before the Nazis bought it, so I don't know why a replacement for it would be the thing for me now. I don't know what that other thing is.
The concept of twitter was never appealing to me, so I naturally won't like platforms that ape it. I joined Reddit at the time because the Minecraft sub seemed like it was getting more attention from Mojang vs the forums. I stayed because the entire IT industry is on Reddit. I left because of the API nonsense in 2023.
Honestly the two big problems I see with the fediverse are the political stridency of the userbase and the friction of picking an instance when you don't know what that even means. The first problem, as I've said elsewhere, is somewhat a result of fedi users self selecting (again I include myself in here) and might resolve on its own if mainstream platforms enshittify to the point that even the normies can't take it anymore and we figure out a way to onboard people better. These problems are probably why I don't try other fedi platforms.
But I'm rambling again. I haven't slept well in days.
I tried out Bookwyrm in early summer this year. It is very underdeveloped and the app is just a web viewer, but I still love the idea and track my books with it.
Then, after 3 years of Lemmy/Piefed and always telling "microblogging isn't for me", I noticed a couple of people/organizations I like are active on mastodon - for example from the privacy scene in Germany, some Genealogy stuff and also all the governmental organizations. Is use it now every couple of days similar to my RSS news feed and really like it so far.
No. Twitter always sucked, even before Musk. Instagram was always stupid, even before Zuck. Facebook was a stupid copy of MySpace, which was stupid to begin with. Reddit was a good format, though made worse repeatedly by being run by Reddit. Hence, Lemmy.
Not really, I always strongly disliked Twitter and the idea of something that's basically like Twitter never appealed to me. Might try that stuff eventually though.
I tried tildes.net first and it was alright but always too serious for me to really feel like myself. It's not the fediverse but it is a reddit-like.
Then I got hooked on Mastodon. I had been on Twitter before but never liked it. Mastodon just felt so much nicer and clever and I felt like I could be myself. I also got lucky and joined a great instance right off the bat.
After that, I found Lemmy and eventually piefed, and it was 196 that really made it stick for me.
I tried loops too but never got the same compulsion/reward loop, kind of like tildes.
I would love a Facebook replacement for my real-life friends, but the network effect is a pretty strong deterrent. I've heard good things about go-to social in general. Maybe I'll try that out, but I'm pretty content with the services I already check regularly.
I was interested in PieFed and plan to give it a try at some point, but still have only used Lemmy. The other formats just aren't as interesting to me. I don't care about specific people, so Mastodon isn't my bag. I care more about the conversations with friendly internet strangers. I don't even have profile pictures enabled on Lemmy, I'd prefer everyone to just dissolve into a sea of unrecognition.
I maintain a mastodon and gotosocial instances. My favorite is peertube and piefed. Still looking for a blog adjacent or something that can work like RSS for all things I want to subscribe to.
My dog has a pixelfed that is more popular than any thing that I have made in the past.
I mostly use a piefed account, though I have a sopuli.xyz, fedia.io and mastodon as well. I also used Kbin, Mbin and lemm.ee when it was still around.
Never much liked mastodon. I'm not sure if the place just isn't large enough or what but I ultimately find it pretty meh. I tend to use bluesky if I want microblog style content.
I liked fedia and Kbin a lot for how they integrated mastodon and Lemmy into one feed for me to interact with. But you'll rarely see me comment from there anymore.
I currently use my sopuli.xyz account to scroll through a more diverse feed featuring languages I may not know and people I am unfamiliar with as an American.
I've tried Mastrodon and PeerTube, but bounced off both due to a lack of quality content. On Mastrodon, the only person I found worth following was Technology Connections, and on PeerTube, I didn't find any of the more scripted and/or well-editted videos that I normally enjoy.
I haven't tried PieFed yet, but might consider switching at some point given Lemmy's idology, and increasingly present shortcomings.
I do have a Mastodon account, but like Twitter I don't really enjoy the format. I'd rather discuss on a specific topic in a Lemmy post with some kind of hierarchical structure which serves as context.
I never used websites like Twitter and Facebook either. Sure I have looked into stuff like Mastodon, Friendica, Misskey, etc. But you're never going to get me to actually use them, they're not the kind of social media I'm interested in.
When it comes to the threadiverse, I actually use Mbin, not Lemmy. I did try both Lemmy and Piefed, but Mbin fits my tastes as an Old Reddit user best out of the three.
I tried Hubzilla, Akkoma, and Mastodon. I still use Mastodon. I have the ActivityPub plugin on a Wordpress site, but haven't yet migrated that site's Mastodon account because Wordpress doesn't offer a great experience for consuming content from accounts I follow. I may try out Wafrn.
I've always had mixed feelings about the microblogging category. Low friction to post and interact is good. Character limits and a complete lack of formatting, not so much. I set the character limit on my self-hosted Mastodon instance to a big number I never approach; I routinely exceed the default 500.
I was aware of Lemmy for a while, but didn't join until the Reddit API fiasco because most of the activity was weird political extremism until suddenly a ton of people wanted Reddit alternatives and new servers sprang up.
5% NeoDB (media logging & collections like Letterboxd, Goodreads etc)
I don't use Pixelfed any more cuz images only doesn't really interest me.
I have a PeerTube account but don't browse much and have only uploaded a handful of files. Might do more in future.
I tried Hubzilla, but soon got locked out of my account (password error?). Haven't bothered trying to reactivate yet, but might.
I have a Sharkey account, mainly to try something "Mastodon-like" but with more functionality (longer posts, markup, etc). But my timeline is too dominated by a handful of users, and it's no good for watch parties, so I barely use it.
I got an account on Gush (media logging/blogging?) thinking it was like NeoDB, but now I think you're literally supposed to gush 😁 about some media / game with a long review, whereas I mainly want tracking, lists, ratings.
I've done a couple of pages on Ibis (wiki from Lemmy developers), but until it becomes more developed & widespread, I'm contributing to joinfediverse.wiki.
I'm considering trying out Mbin, to unify my threadiverse & blogging universes and some other features.
I used mastodon a long time ago, before Lemmy. I never took to the style of microblogs. Twitter never did it for me either. The mastodon instance I used eventually died and I never bothered to find a new one.
I never hade Twitter or the likes so I don't really interact with those types of apps all too often, but I have a Mastodon and a Pixelfed that I look at every once in a while. Also recently got a Loops account that I have barely opened.
Always nice to have an account set up and ready if I feel like using them in the future
yeah, I tested most of the software, and still use Mastodon and Wafrn. I use mastodon to follow a hashtag, but it didn't deliver what it promised. Few major tech youtubers bounced back from it due extreme toxicity.
Wafrn is super wacky software. You can play doom and bite people. It has rage-bait driven development* and connects to bluesky and fediverse at the same time without a bridge.
Bookwyrm and Piefed didn't deliver what I would want from their respective domains.
I have accounts on pixelfed and mastodon, but I don't use them often. I've also moved from Lemmy to Piefed (which interacts with the lemmyverse, but runs on different software). I prefer it, as it comes with some better features and without the politics of the Lemmy devs.
Personally I don't care what the devs think as long as it doesn't trickle down into the software itself. If they somehow hardcoded censorship of things critical of China and Russia then I'd be worried. But I can see your point. Commie devs attract more Commies which leads to a Commie echo chamber where non Commies don't feel welcome.
frankly, it's because Piefed feels like Lemmy 2.0.
I've been using lemmy for a couple of years, now, and I've seen very little improvement, especially UI/UX improvements based on user feedback. mostly because of the shitty, arrogant devs who only work on what they feel is important, in their incredibly detached and elitist manner.
fuck 'em. it's not really the politics-- it's that the devs are openly hostile shitheads to the general community, especially if anyone dares disagree with them, ever.
Piefed is more refined, has a few added (very convenient) features, and provides a superior web experience. On mobile, it's mostly the same, but the Piefed web interface seems to prioritize features and ease-of-use over the 'look what I made in Rust! Bow down before me!' mentality. also, it's coded in Python, so it's just as fast, but with a lot of legacy library support, so development and upgrades come quickly.
Ah I didn't realize it went beyond the devs being tankies. Yeah if they won't take feedback that will just cause things to stagnate. Maybe I should check out Piefed.
EDIT: as a non developer what's the deal with rust and those who use it?
I’ll start by wrapping up my Lemmy dev comments: they’re just a bag of dicks. Yes, they invented something novel and fantastic, and I do very much appreciate their efforts, but they’re a bag of dicks. One of the cool things about Lemmy and the fediverse is that, if one group is a bag of dicks, there’s always some other group who is much more agreeable doing the same thing. And it’s not competition, it’s just growing the community.
Second, to explain to someone who isn’t a developer, rust is a very new programming language that offers a lot of novel concepts, extreme efficiency, and a lot of interesting functionality. One of the big problems, however, is, due to the fact that it is a very new operating system, there is no massive library of pre-existing libraries (in the developer context) to use to aid encoding an application.
See, whenever you need to do something that is commonly done in a lot of other applications, there’s usually, for most programming languages, an existing library, or a set of libraries that you can simply import in order to add certain functionalities rather than coding the entire thing yourself. With rust, because it is so new, developing any sort of new thing or advancement, requires the developer to hand code everything. While it is very exciting, and all of the ground level innovation occurs at this point, building a mission critical application out out of this, even for the most skilled developer, means you have to do 10 to 1000 times more work to get the same effect. Because you cannot stand on the shoulders of Giants, you must build yourself up to be a giant, yourself.
Piefed, a Lemmie clone, is built on Python… One of the oldest scripting/programming languages that exists. It is very stable, it is extremely widely taught, it’s very easy to understand, use, and develop in such of environment, and there are at least four decades worth of functional libraries to tap into. Rapidly iterating software versions based on python is much faster and requires far less developer work, because they can stand on the shoulders of the 45+ years of giants that preceded them.
It’s not simply a social philosophy, but an entirely different philosophy of development methodology. What the lead developers did is remarkable, and very amazing. But they have not substantially improved upon their initial product in almost 5 years. Others have. And the reason why they have not made monumental leaps of improvement? Because that three or four people are in charge of Lenny development, and they are all of the same mind that “I know best, and fuck anyone who would say different“. That attitude marks any developers time of death, because, for developer to survive through multiple generations, they must be both open minded and flexible. The Lemmy Debs are the antithesis of both of those things.
So, I placed my bet on Piefed. It let me without the asshole doves who see no future, but their own self interest.
I couldn’t give a shit if they’re communist. But they are dicks about it, so fuck em
I tried Mastodon, multiple times, and it always has this icky political feel to it. Sort of like a left wing version of Twitter, which I also hate. Bluesky is even worse in this regard IME. Haven't tried Sharkey. I'll have a look at some of the alternatives in this thread.
I know I've said this multiple times but a fanatic is someone who won't change their mind and won't change the subject, and there are a lot of fanatics here. To me, there is inherent value in attempting to create a neutral space where people who otherwise may be on opposite sides of the political spectrum can talk about shared interests.
To drag out my tired example, say Alice is a gun nut and Bob wants to seize the means of production. But both of them like vintage computers. They talk on the vintage computers community about their mutual love of vintage computers, and they realize that the "other side" is also a human being with hobbies and interests and thoughts and feelings. Alice may not put on the hammer and sickle and bob might not go out and buy an AR-15, but they both realize that the other isn't a monster. Surely there's value in that.
But there are a lot of monsters out there. The MAGAs consists largely of people who have an explicit interest in destruction and cruelty. They celebrate their leaders for kidnapping people off the streets, sinking fishing boats, starving the poor, depriving people of their rights, supporting dictatorships and anti-democrats, and declaring war on empathy. Oh, but they're also interested in vintage computers. How nice of them.
I don't care about the social media as much as I care about keeping the app I already know how to use lol. I used boost for reddit for years, then I changed to boost for lemmy.
Yes and I do have an account on an instance of both (although, the one that used Sharkey transferred over to Cherrypick) along with Matrix, but I don't use them very much though.
The problem I have with Mastodon, Sharkey, Cherrypick and any other similar platform (including Twitter, Minds, and Bluesky back when I still had an account), is that I've never found them to be useful. Every time I post to any of these platforms, either no one ever seems to actually acknowledge my posts or I get responses that aren't helpful. While my posts and comments still sometimes still get ignored, I've found Lemmy (and Reddit back when I still had an account) to be much more useful and helpful.
As for Matrix, I do still log in sometimes but I've never found any reason to actually use it.
I have a mastodon account. Be lucky if I fired it up once a week. That's a lot more than I ever used twatter/x. That I opened maybe 5 times when it first started. The super short form stuff just not my thing.
Mostly just to look at mastodon followed hashtags of photography. When I first got it I straight away put filters on stuff I wasn't interested in before figuring out how to look at only followed hashtags.
Indeed there is value in that. And sometimes that's possible and should be pursued. But there are some people I can't discuss pizza toppings with, because I can't accept their underlying world view. It's difficult to find a good balance at scale, which is why everything is becoming so horrible. Something will have to (positively) change at some point, because the current state is unsustainable.
With Mastodon, I saw no value since there was no content besides American political whining when I last looked.
I tried pixelfed but nobody was using it when I last looked.
Bluesky is ATP but similar problem as Mastodon. There's no content except Americans whining and facebook tier political image macros. Unless you disable adult content filters, then you get to see obese hairy man asshole spreads with no way to avoid homosexual content when you're not homosexual because word filters don't do anything if the poster didn't use those words in the text body or hashtags. So it's not great for porn either. On top of that, there's a lot of content thieves who don't credit their reposts.
I was in mastodon first for several months before moving to lemme. some good interesting posts and content but it was harder to filter out advertising and self promotion and I just prefer following topics and communities instead of people. Monsterdon is worth experiencing if you haven't though, Monday 2am gmt cheesy horror movies watch party just having fun and cracking jokes.
Perhaps it's because I haven't subscribed to a lot of communities here (Lemmy), but I find Mastodon (and Sharkey by extension due to their federation with Mastodon instances) more active than Lemmy.
I've got an account in programming.dev (Lemmy), fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and fedia.social (IceShrimp ≈ Sharkey, loosely). I've also got a very inactive Reddit account.
Mastodon, not my cup of tea (to be fair, neither was Twitter). I just don't find micro-blogging to be very engaging and my mind categorizes it as "brain rot".
Sharkey? Haven't heard of that one until I just googled it, but one look at their mascot and....no. Just... no.
Have been looking at joining Piefed instance, though.
Same here. I don’t mind microblogging, but I find it hard to find good content to follow on Mastodon. Also not a fan of my feed being filled with replies. Not having the thread right there for context is distracting and annoying.
No idea what sharkey is. Don’t really care to find out.
Sharkey is mastodon but with way more features.
idk, Mastodon has official apps for iOS and I think also more users
Aria is a client for Sharkey. Users doesn't really matter since they interoperate. (Also: it supports the mastodon API.)
the thing you have to remember is that the internet is built off the backs of furries and trans women.
that's not to say that all tech workers are one of those two, but a lot of those two work in tech, specifically open source.
Don't believe me? look up programer/Unix socks.
Literally my exact thought process.
No, because they were alternates to social media whose formats I had no interest in before they went to shit as they all seemed to be accounts yelling into the cloud, not somewhere that conversations could happen.
So just lemmy and piefed so far.
To me, Bluesky is like that and some ppl on mastodon are like that, but my corner of it is very conversational.
The bigger the accounts get, the less conversational they tend to want to be.
I'm becoming a bigger and bigger fan of peer tube.
I also had mastadon for a non profit I supported and it seems like a good community with good content and lots of it.
At the same time, I've litterally never understood that particular way of both creating and interacting with content (I never understood Twitter, still don't get it).
I’m more of a forum user than a microblogger, and google says sharkey is a kids haircut place
I think they meant Misskey
I thought that was a water gym trainer in Pokemon.
Sharkey is a misskey fork
I tried mastodon but it's not really the sort of thing I use even when there are accounts for me to follow. Also the way it links with Lemmy feels weird, you can always tell when someone replies to a post from mastodon because the formats don't link very well.
And the culture is just different. I'm not sure how to describe it, but I'll try. It's like...imagine the threadiverse portion of the fediverse as a library or a meeting room where people are having a quiet discussion. Mastodon accounts feel like they're barging in all loud and boorish like "HEYYYYY! LOOK AT ME!!! HASHTAG HASHTAG HASHTAG"
I think there is a real divide on the internet between those who prefer longer format conversations around posting reposts, and just, micro logged, idk, I don't want to be derogatory, but like, micro content?
I just throw it up as "I never got twitter", but it does precisely 0 for me.
I use both and I agree. I have a different mindset on mastodon, there I care more about who is saying something than what they say. I have a small group of people I care about. On lemmy/piefed I care about what someone says but not who they are. It's all about the topic.
Idk, on lemmy back-and-forth conversations are usually just a few replies at most, not particularly long format, unless you count length by all of the separate comments/branches
Unlike discord for example
When people started to move over from twitter, the culture changed significantly. People treat mastodon like twitter not knowing all the "restrictions" like char count are things that can be adjusted in admin.
The character limit is hardcoded in two places. They could, and should make it a setting, or just eliminate it.
I started with mastodon but i can never get into that kind of social media. Everyone was super nice and i tried for a bit but it felt now like looking into people's lives rather than whatever this is. I prefer this.
The use case of Reddit/lemmy is entirely different from Twitter/x/mastodon. In Reddit/lemmy, there’s a topic of interest, and people chime in. In Twitter/etc, there’s people of interest, and they discuss topics.
I don’t care who is talking, I just want to talk about stuff. So the twitter style has zero interest for me.
Twitter wasn't a thing for me way before the Nazis bought it, so I don't know why a replacement for it would be the thing for me now. I don't know what that other thing is.
The other use for Twitter was for porn,
Brother I been watching porn since before twitter on way better websites
Yea I use Mastodon, it's great.
No.
I specifically wanted a Reddit-like thing.
Mastodon is more a Twitter-replacement, isn't it?
And never heard of Sharkey before...
The concept of twitter was never appealing to me, so I naturally won't like platforms that ape it. I joined Reddit at the time because the Minecraft sub seemed like it was getting more attention from Mojang vs the forums. I stayed because the entire IT industry is on Reddit. I left because of the API nonsense in 2023.
Honestly the two big problems I see with the fediverse are the political stridency of the userbase and the friction of picking an instance when you don't know what that even means. The first problem, as I've said elsewhere, is somewhat a result of fedi users self selecting (again I include myself in here) and might resolve on its own if mainstream platforms enshittify to the point that even the normies can't take it anymore and we figure out a way to onboard people better. These problems are probably why I don't try other fedi platforms.
But I'm rambling again. I haven't slept well in days.
I tried out Bookwyrm in early summer this year. It is very underdeveloped and the app is just a web viewer, but I still love the idea and track my books with it.
Then, after 3 years of Lemmy/Piefed and always telling "microblogging isn't for me", I noticed a couple of people/organizations I like are active on mastodon - for example from the privacy scene in Germany, some Genealogy stuff and also all the governmental organizations. Is use it now every couple of days similar to my RSS news feed and really like it so far.
No. Twitter always sucked, even before Musk. Instagram was always stupid, even before Zuck. Facebook was a stupid copy of MySpace, which was stupid to begin with. Reddit was a good format, though made worse repeatedly by being run by Reddit. Hence, Lemmy.
Not really, I always strongly disliked Twitter and the idea of something that's basically like Twitter never appealed to me. Might try that stuff eventually though.
I am on bluesky, and I have never understood why people tweet every 10 minutes about anything and everything they ponder or find.
I get doing it every day perhaps, even thrice a day but every 10 minutes?
No judgement, just curious why are people so keen on revealing aspects of their life so openly.
It's the addiction, like with reddit.
I tried tildes.net first and it was alright but always too serious for me to really feel like myself. It's not the fediverse but it is a reddit-like.
Then I got hooked on Mastodon. I had been on Twitter before but never liked it. Mastodon just felt so much nicer and clever and I felt like I could be myself. I also got lucky and joined a great instance right off the bat.
After that, I found Lemmy and eventually piefed, and it was 196 that really made it stick for me.
I tried loops too but never got the same compulsion/reward loop, kind of like tildes.
I would love a Facebook replacement for my real-life friends, but the network effect is a pretty strong deterrent. I've heard good things about go-to social in general. Maybe I'll try that out, but I'm pretty content with the services I already check regularly.
I was interested in PieFed and plan to give it a try at some point, but still have only used Lemmy. The other formats just aren't as interesting to me. I don't care about specific people, so Mastodon isn't my bag. I care more about the conversations with friendly internet strangers. I don't even have profile pictures enabled on Lemmy, I'd prefer everyone to just dissolve into a sea of unrecognition.
I maintain a mastodon and gotosocial instances. My favorite is peertube and piefed. Still looking for a blog adjacent or something that can work like RSS for all things I want to subscribe to.
My dog has a pixelfed that is more popular than any thing that I have made in the past.
I mostly use a piefed account, though I have a sopuli.xyz, fedia.io and mastodon as well. I also used Kbin, Mbin and lemm.ee when it was still around.
Never much liked mastodon. I'm not sure if the place just isn't large enough or what but I ultimately find it pretty meh. I tend to use bluesky if I want microblog style content.
I liked fedia and Kbin a lot for how they integrated mastodon and Lemmy into one feed for me to interact with. But you'll rarely see me comment from there anymore.
I currently use my sopuli.xyz account to scroll through a more diverse feed featuring languages I may not know and people I am unfamiliar with as an American.
Yes, I tried Mastodon prior to Lemmy, iirc. When I post my art I post it from Mastodon because it's easy to crosspost it to Lemmy.
I've tried Mastrodon and PeerTube, but bounced off both due to a lack of quality content. On Mastrodon, the only person I found worth following was Technology Connections, and on PeerTube, I didn't find any of the more scripted and/or well-editted videos that I normally enjoy.
I haven't tried PieFed yet, but might consider switching at some point given Lemmy's idology, and increasingly present shortcomings.
This was me a month ago.
tried mastodon did not understand how it works lemmy felt familiar so I stayed
I do have a Mastodon account, but like Twitter I don't really enjoy the format. I'd rather discuss on a specific topic in a Lemmy post with some kind of hierarchical structure which serves as context.
I went from Twitter to Mastodon but I left Mastodon. The ui is too much like Twitter. I'm not a fan of Bluesky either.
I like the ui of Lemmy. Following sub's or communities is more my speed.
I use Lemmy and Mastadon daily. Two different things. Love them both.
I never used websites like Twitter and Facebook either. Sure I have looked into stuff like Mastodon, Friendica, Misskey, etc. But you're never going to get me to actually use them, they're not the kind of social media I'm interested in.
When it comes to the threadiverse, I actually use Mbin, not Lemmy. I did try both Lemmy and Piefed, but Mbin fits my tastes as an Old Reddit user best out of the three.
I tried Hubzilla, Akkoma, and Mastodon. I still use Mastodon. I have the ActivityPub plugin on a Wordpress site, but haven't yet migrated that site's Mastodon account because Wordpress doesn't offer a great experience for consuming content from accounts I follow. I may try out Wafrn.
I've always had mixed feelings about the microblogging category. Low friction to post and interact is good. Character limits and a complete lack of formatting, not so much. I set the character limit on my self-hosted Mastodon instance to a big number I never approach; I routinely exceed the default 500.
I was aware of Lemmy for a while, but didn't join until the Reddit API fiasco because most of the activity was weird political extremism until suddenly a ton of people wanted Reddit alternatives and new servers sprang up.
I'm also using mastodon and really liking it.
Bluesky is ok but it never really stuck for me.
I want to get into peertube but I find it really hard to find content I like and an instance to join.
No. One social media is enough. Lemmy meets all my needs.
Started with Lemmy & Pixelfed earlier this year.
Now:
I don't use Pixelfed any more cuz images only doesn't really interest me.
I have a PeerTube account but don't browse much and have only uploaded a handful of files. Might do more in future.
I tried Hubzilla, but soon got locked out of my account (password error?). Haven't bothered trying to reactivate yet, but might.
I have a Sharkey account, mainly to try something "Mastodon-like" but with more functionality (longer posts, markup, etc). But my timeline is too dominated by a handful of users, and it's no good for watch parties, so I barely use it.
I got an account on Gush (media logging/blogging?) thinking it was like NeoDB, but now I think you're literally supposed to gush 😁 about some media / game with a long review, whereas I mainly want tracking, lists, ratings.
I've done a couple of pages on Ibis (wiki from Lemmy developers), but until it becomes more developed & widespread, I'm contributing to joinfediverse.wiki.
I'm considering trying out Mbin, to unify my threadiverse & blogging universes and some other features.
I used mastodon a long time ago, before Lemmy. I never took to the style of microblogs. Twitter never did it for me either. The mastodon instance I used eventually died and I never bothered to find a new one.
@url Friendica is where it's at!
I never hade Twitter or the likes so I don't really interact with those types of apps all too often, but I have a Mastodon and a Pixelfed that I look at every once in a while. Also recently got a Loops account that I have barely opened.
Always nice to have an account set up and ready if I feel like using them in the future
No, I never liked Twitter, so I can't even begin to bother about mastodon. Never heard of the other one.
I tried the Instagram clone for a few days (forgot the name), but it was so empty I left it again.
I have mastodon but I barely use it. I did set up a Bookwyrm too but I don’t maintain it like I should. This is my time sink for sure.
yeah, I tested most of the software, and still use Mastodon and Wafrn. I use mastodon to follow a hashtag, but it didn't deliver what it promised. Few major tech youtubers bounced back from it due extreme toxicity.
Wafrn is super wacky software. You can play doom and bite people. It has rage-bait driven development* and connects to bluesky and fediverse at the same time without a bridge.
Bookwyrm and Piefed didn't deliver what I would want from their respective domains.
*allegedly
I've tried a handful with Mastodon being my favorite and Lemmy a close second.
Never heard of Sharkey.
I have accounts on pixelfed and mastodon, but I don't use them often. I've also moved from Lemmy to Piefed (which interacts with the lemmyverse, but runs on different software). I prefer it, as it comes with some better features and without the politics of the Lemmy devs.
Personally I don't care what the devs think as long as it doesn't trickle down into the software itself. If they somehow hardcoded censorship of things critical of China and Russia then I'd be worried. But I can see your point. Commie devs attract more Commies which leads to a Commie echo chamber where non Commies don't feel welcome.
frankly, it's because Piefed feels like Lemmy 2.0.
I've been using lemmy for a couple of years, now, and I've seen very little improvement, especially UI/UX improvements based on user feedback. mostly because of the shitty, arrogant devs who only work on what they feel is important, in their incredibly detached and elitist manner.
fuck 'em. it's not really the politics-- it's that the devs are openly hostile shitheads to the general community, especially if anyone dares disagree with them, ever.
Piefed is more refined, has a few added (very convenient) features, and provides a superior web experience. On mobile, it's mostly the same, but the Piefed web interface seems to prioritize features and ease-of-use over the 'look what I made in Rust! Bow down before me!' mentality. also, it's coded in Python, so it's just as fast, but with a lot of legacy library support, so development and upgrades come quickly.
Ah I didn't realize it went beyond the devs being tankies. Yeah if they won't take feedback that will just cause things to stagnate. Maybe I should check out Piefed.
EDIT: as a non developer what's the deal with rust and those who use it?
I’ll start by wrapping up my Lemmy dev comments: they’re just a bag of dicks. Yes, they invented something novel and fantastic, and I do very much appreciate their efforts, but they’re a bag of dicks. One of the cool things about Lemmy and the fediverse is that, if one group is a bag of dicks, there’s always some other group who is much more agreeable doing the same thing. And it’s not competition, it’s just growing the community.
Second, to explain to someone who isn’t a developer, rust is a very new programming language that offers a lot of novel concepts, extreme efficiency, and a lot of interesting functionality. One of the big problems, however, is, due to the fact that it is a very new operating system, there is no massive library of pre-existing libraries (in the developer context) to use to aid encoding an application.
See, whenever you need to do something that is commonly done in a lot of other applications, there’s usually, for most programming languages, an existing library, or a set of libraries that you can simply import in order to add certain functionalities rather than coding the entire thing yourself. With rust, because it is so new, developing any sort of new thing or advancement, requires the developer to hand code everything. While it is very exciting, and all of the ground level innovation occurs at this point, building a mission critical application out out of this, even for the most skilled developer, means you have to do 10 to 1000 times more work to get the same effect. Because you cannot stand on the shoulders of Giants, you must build yourself up to be a giant, yourself.
Piefed, a Lemmie clone, is built on Python… One of the oldest scripting/programming languages that exists. It is very stable, it is extremely widely taught, it’s very easy to understand, use, and develop in such of environment, and there are at least four decades worth of functional libraries to tap into. Rapidly iterating software versions based on python is much faster and requires far less developer work, because they can stand on the shoulders of the 45+ years of giants that preceded them.
It’s not simply a social philosophy, but an entirely different philosophy of development methodology. What the lead developers did is remarkable, and very amazing. But they have not substantially improved upon their initial product in almost 5 years. Others have. And the reason why they have not made monumental leaps of improvement? Because that three or four people are in charge of Lenny development, and they are all of the same mind that “I know best, and fuck anyone who would say different“. That attitude marks any developers time of death, because, for developer to survive through multiple generations, they must be both open minded and flexible. The Lemmy Debs are the antithesis of both of those things.
So, I placed my bet on Piefed. It let me without the asshole doves who see no future, but their own self interest.
I couldn’t give a shit if they’re communist. But they are dicks about it, so fuck em
I tried Mastodon, multiple times, and it always has this icky political feel to it. Sort of like a left wing version of Twitter, which I also hate. Bluesky is even worse in this regard IME. Haven't tried Sharkey. I'll have a look at some of the alternatives in this thread.
I know I've said this multiple times but a fanatic is someone who won't change their mind and won't change the subject, and there are a lot of fanatics here. To me, there is inherent value in attempting to create a neutral space where people who otherwise may be on opposite sides of the political spectrum can talk about shared interests.
To drag out my tired example, say Alice is a gun nut and Bob wants to seize the means of production. But both of them like vintage computers. They talk on the vintage computers community about their mutual love of vintage computers, and they realize that the "other side" is also a human being with hobbies and interests and thoughts and feelings. Alice may not put on the hammer and sickle and bob might not go out and buy an AR-15, but they both realize that the other isn't a monster. Surely there's value in that.
But there are a lot of monsters out there. The MAGAs consists largely of people who have an explicit interest in destruction and cruelty. They celebrate their leaders for kidnapping people off the streets, sinking fishing boats, starving the poor, depriving people of their rights, supporting dictatorships and anti-democrats, and declaring war on empathy. Oh, but they're also interested in vintage computers. How nice of them.
I have a mastodon :3 not so much for the other services tho
Nope
I don't care about the social media as much as I care about keeping the app I already know how to use lol. I used boost for reddit for years, then I changed to boost for lemmy.
I like mastadon. I really didn't know, and I mostly still don't care what the fediverse shit is.
I've been on mastodon for years, but far less active than lemmy
Yes and I do have an account on an instance of both (although, the one that used Sharkey transferred over to Cherrypick) along with Matrix, but I don't use them very much though.
The problem I have with Mastodon, Sharkey, Cherrypick and any other similar platform (including Twitter, Minds, and Bluesky back when I still had an account), is that I've never found them to be useful. Every time I post to any of these platforms, either no one ever seems to actually acknowledge my posts or I get responses that aren't helpful. While my posts and comments still sometimes still get ignored, I've found Lemmy (and Reddit back when I still had an account) to be much more useful and helpful.
As for Matrix, I do still log in sometimes but I've never found any reason to actually use it.
I have a mastodon account. Be lucky if I fired it up once a week. That's a lot more than I ever used twatter/x. That I opened maybe 5 times when it first started. The super short form stuff just not my thing.
Mostly just to look at mastodon followed hashtags of photography. When I first got it I straight away put filters on stuff I wasn't interested in before figuring out how to look at only followed hashtags.
Indeed there is value in that. And sometimes that's possible and should be pursued. But there are some people I can't discuss pizza toppings with, because I can't accept their underlying world view. It's difficult to find a good balance at scale, which is why everything is becoming so horrible. Something will have to (positively) change at some point, because the current state is unsustainable.
I have two small pictures blog in Mastodon, but none of them get that many attention as they would get here, sooo...
Two good ones I also recomend if you wanna start as a newbie: Friendica and Sharkey. I might change my picture blogs to there.
With Mastodon, I saw no value since there was no content besides American political whining when I last looked.
I tried pixelfed but nobody was using it when I last looked.
Bluesky is ATP but similar problem as Mastodon. There's no content except Americans whining and facebook tier political image macros. Unless you disable adult content filters, then you get to see obese hairy man asshole spreads with no way to avoid homosexual content when you're not homosexual because word filters don't do anything if the poster didn't use those words in the text body or hashtags. So it's not great for porn either. On top of that, there's a lot of content thieves who don't credit their reposts.
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Blue sky did inherit the twitter crowd, which moved there because of politics . Did the porn also move over? I think still some are still on it
I've seen surprisingly little porn on bluesky
You have to opt out of adult content filters. No way you won't see porn in the Catch Up feed if you do.
I was in mastodon first for several months before moving to lemme. some good interesting posts and content but it was harder to filter out advertising and self promotion and I just prefer following topics and communities instead of people. Monsterdon is worth experiencing if you haven't though, Monday 2am gmt cheesy horror movies watch party just having fun and cracking jokes.
I tried Element for Matrix, but I prefer forums to chatrooms.
Perhaps it's because I haven't subscribed to a lot of communities here (Lemmy), but I find Mastodon (and Sharkey by extension due to their federation with Mastodon instances) more active than Lemmy.
I've got an account in programming.dev (Lemmy), fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and fedia.social (IceShrimp ≈ Sharkey, loosely). I've also got a very inactive Reddit account.