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
Mainly use lemmy with voyager. Don’t know or care enough to join any others. I’m only here for the shitposting and vague sense of community/socialisation.
I used to use reddit for that, but the bots and getting banned for wrongthink really pushed me off. The non-stop-politicking happens here too, but I try and stay away, and at least its more aligned with my stances here when I do see it so it doesn’t piss me off as much.
Still use reddit for NSFW communities, but once that account is banned I wont be back.
Only lemmy. And lurking Reddit at work because stupid memes are entertaining enough. But I never upvote anything there. (I know just the browsing is engagement but idc enough)
Why I use Lemmy:
I can subscribe to the selfhosting/(F)OSS mindset and like the idea of it.I’ve used Mastodon since soon after Twitter was sold. Then when Reddit started killing third party client access I came here too.
I still use Reddit since it’s just got the user base, but I’m trying. I run !gamedev@lemmy.world for the fun of it. (Just don’t judge me by the least few weeks of upkeep; life has been life-ing. I try to find a few worthwhile news stories to link a day, ideally practical, but sometimes just interesting industry news.)
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.
I also use mastodon, but I find that I rarely reply to people there. Am I thinking about it wrong, it’s like whatever I write will be on the same level of visibility as top level posts, but everything mixed up in a big pile? I don’t really get it.
I’m convinced you have to have a certain kind of brain to enjoy Twitter style content
It’s simply unintuitive and confusing for like 10% of people. You have to like, relax your brain, and just accept that you’re never going to read things in a logical organised tree. It really is basically a big pile, and you just see what you see, and don’t think about what you’re not seeing; if that makes sense. You cannot read everything in a thread and have to accept that and relinquish control
If this bothers you too much, it’s just not for you; sorry 😂 personally once I realised that, I just gave up on that whole thing
Hah, that describes it well. I guess it works for more “announcement”-type posts that aren’t meant to be discussed much. I can scroll through it and see that there’s an upcoming conference, that someone wrote an article with a link to it, that someone made a pizza, that someone is upset over a recent event, etc. It’s like reading the news.
Replies stack into a thread in chronological order so clicking on a post allows reading the full conversation. However if tags/mentions are included others who have subscribed to those will see those comments in their notifications and when they click on them it will again show the full conversation though scrolled to the specific message that triggered the notification.
I personally have a couple pinned tags that particularly interest me and then several more of lesser interest that just flow through my notification pane.
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’m on mastodon, lemmy, pixelfed, and loops. Also on Bluesky until the ads start.
Here to avoid ads and dark patterns. Fediverse is where interaction is done with users in mind instead of being the product. No nasty algorithms here.
Hell yeah.
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.
I would argue that most of the responses are not from humans, and most of them are not nice. But no ads is a great feature! ;)
Depends on your instance. Most are human-moderated and gated in various ways.
Security doesn’t matter when the owners of the instances are the ones controlling the bots
You’re really just reinforcing my point.
I’m sorry… your point is that is… a good thing?
Yeah, there’s an even lower barrier of entry for bots on a federated model, by design. And people on here are definitely less nice than on reddit, the vibe is generally negative: most posts are rants, complaints or bad news. I miss the cat pictures sometimes.
That’s a gewd kedi right there. Had to give up my cat 4 months ago, though fortunately one of my sisters was able to take her in so I still get to see her sometimes. Going to go upstairs and pet the cat of the sister I’m staying with seeing this.
That’s an interesting experience. Sometimes I feel like my feed has too many cat pictures.
Here’s a cutie I bet you don’t see every day everywhere you go…
Maybe it’s my feed. My front page never has relevant posts, no matter how I tweak my subscriptions, so most days I end up just browsing “all” sorted by most upvotes.
I mostly browse all as well. But one thing to try, is blocking communities and users. Block US news communities and you’ll find a lot less bad news. When you see people acting in bad faith in the comments, have a quick browse of their profile to see if they are usually like that, then block them if they are.
There aren’t that many users on Lemmy, and there are even fewer users that actually post and comment. You may find it’s the same ones over and over, and blocking them helps.
Now on to your more pressing problem. Presumably you’re seeing content from !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone, sorting by top in the last day I can see three memes with cats: https://programming.dev/c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone?dataType=Post&sort=TopDay
But the real action is here: https://programming.dev/c/cat@lemmy.world?dataType=Post&sort=New
There are like 20 posts in the last few days, most of them with plenty of upvotes.
well great for you
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.
this was nicely written
Been on mastodon for awhile. I decided to make a lemmy account because trying to view lemmy from mastodon is annoying.
do you think peertube got the least of the migration waves that happened in i dont remember
I didn’t know that was still running
I’m not sure what peertube is? So I guess so??
well peertube is like youtube but fedi
I only use mastodon and lemmy as far as I know
Just Lemmy. I never had Twitter so Mastodon probably wouldn’t appeal, I had that problem with Bluesky.
More than anything Reddit just got annoying to use. I had no social media at all for a bit until I signed up for Lemmy, and I haven’t decided if I like it yet. I do enjoy that there isn’t a ton of content to endlessly scroll, feels healthier I guess.
I want Peertube to be good but the content just isn’t there for me yet.
Only on Lemmy, ever since the APIpocalypse on Reddit.
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.
So, I jumped ship here to the old lemm(dot)ee instance because of the r€ddit API fiasco a few years back. I haven’t looked back since. That led me to who knows how much longer down the line trying Mastodon. Still there, but I mostly just retoot things from the people I follow, who retooted another post… and follow The Internet Archive.
Mastodon for my twitumblr fix
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 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.
