Ask Lemmy

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.

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.

I’m more of a forum user than a microblogger, and google says sharkey is a kids haircut place

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.

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.

Yea I use Mastodon, it's great.

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.

No.
I specifically wanted a Reddit-like thing.

Mastodon is more a Twitter-replacement, isn't it?

And never heard of Sharkey before...

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.

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.

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'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 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 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.

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.

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'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.

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 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 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.

tried mastodon did not understand how it works lemmy felt familiar so I stayed

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.

Started with Lemmy & Pixelfed earlier this year.

Now:

• 60% Mastodon (largely watch parties like #KungFuSat, #Monsterdon etc)
• 35% Piefed (threadiverse like Lemmy)
• 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 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.

@url Friendica is where it's at!

Nope

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.

No. One social media is enough. Lemmy meets all my needs.

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.

Mastodon seems to be good but I've never used Twitter not even before Elon Musk, I always disliked these kind of Twitter-like platform.

I tried to use once (also before Musk) but just stopped using in 2 or 3 days.

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.

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

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.

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