9mo ago

Which fediverse software do you use besides Lemmy?

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Pretty much just Lemmy.
I never understood the attraction of twitter, so mastodon doesn't appeal to me either.
- Exactly how I feel about Twitter. I get the appeal but it just ain't for me
- I never understood the attraction of twitter, so mastodon doesn't appeal to me either.
  I won't try to convince you, but I am exactly like you, I still use Twitter from time to time (although not as Elon wants, I use this version) anyway, still just use it from time to time, but I gave it a chance to Mastodon (Moshidon and Megalodon clients) and I really liked to follow hashtags, I think I find more interesting content that way compared to whatever Twitter algorithm wants to show me, with that said it is not perfect, but it is definitely an improvement because, not everyone is advertising themselves there, so you pretty much need to work your way to curate your stuff (which as I have said, found it better) and it is not very different than following communities here, I dislike that even when I have filtered out languages many foreign languages still leak in the posts (something that I have not suffered here).
  And even when both Mastodon and Lemmy are a shadow compared to Twitter and Reddit I still find more "niche" stuff in Mastodon than Lemmy, for example I have had some talks about Hotel Dusk and The Last Window (DS games) there and I don't recall having that interaction here, but that could just be because Mastodon might be more popular and has a higher user base (just as the corporation ones are).
  
  https://github.com/crimera/piko
  A link that's not a direct link to an apk for those of us who don't know what the hell we'd be installing.
- I mean, I go on twitter daily, but only to follow artists, and, like... game devs for short form news updates.
  Not whatever... most people apparently use it for.
  I also use userscripts that prevent the 'for you' tab from ever showing up or being selected.
- I used to not understand it either. Now I understand that for normal people, it is an RSS reader where you just get notified when the sources you follow have something to say. For celebrities and organizations it is an advertising platform where they can remind their followers of their existence and tell them what they are doing.

PieFed (which'll let me subscribe to this post), Matrix, and Mastodon (using the phanpy web client)

Mastodon and rarely pixelfed

Can you really call Matrix "fediverse software" if it doesn't implement ActivityPub and therefore doesn't federate with the majority of Fediverse instances?
- The fediverse is an umbrella term. I don't know that anyone thinks of it as limited to activitypub.
  Matrix might not interact with activitypub platforms, but it's definitely federated, and definitely contains a universe of content.
  I've found a couple active "spaces" (the equivalent of discord servers, a collection of users and rooms, not just one group chat) that are great.
  I access all that from my own instance, thanks to federation.
- Fediverse is more than ActivityPub, it's also Matrix, Nostr, Bluesky

PieFed is my favorite lemmy type software and the recent subscribe to post feature is great. Phanpy for mastodon is the best mastodon client hands down and Threaded (open source mastodon app that looks like Threads) is shaping up to be great too.

Mastodon, Peertube, PixelFed, and (unfortunately) Threads. [I'm forced to have a Threads account because of my job in media. I'm on Instagram and Twitter for the same reason]
I'm also super excited for Loops, but it hasn't launched yet.

I have a mastodon account, but I use it more like an RSS feed (which I also have). The microblogging format isnt very appealing to me for discussion so I do that here.

I'm sort of aware of Mastodon and occasionally click a link to it. Otherwise just Lemmy and even that doesn't gain much from federation afaict. I can't exactly say the fediverse vision is falling since I don't really understand what it was supposed to be in the first place. But I don't see much to get excited about.
- @solrize
  The fact that you're not even noticing the federation shows how effective it is ;)
  You're probably browsing communities that aren't on Lemmy.world often without realising, I'm here replying to you from wetdry.world (a mastodon instance), and the OP also doesn't come from Lemmy.world
  The cool thing about this is that no single server, company, or entity in general gets to decide over the wider fediverse, because everything is spread out and shared between thousands of independent servers. This is completely opposite to what traditional social media services have built.
  
  I'm aware of other Lemmy servers (I'm also on .ml) but as we saw with hexbear and other defederations, instead of having just one gatekeeper to satisfy, you now have to satisfy N of them simultaneously. I hate Spez and Reddit these days but it still feels less constrained there than it does here. I miss Usenet.

Mastodon

I love Pixelfed. I always feel happier after using it.

Mastodon, Matrix.

Kbin
- This, also mbin
  
  I find mbin completely overrun with Blue MAGA.
  I like Kbin being the same, without registering mbin downvotes.

Matrix

I pop into my Akkoma account every so often. It has all the same content as Mastodon but it does a good job of back-filling replies so I see more of the conversation.

Mastodon and bookwyrm pretty regularly.
Peertube once in a while.

I have a kbin account (still like the default UI a lot), but apart from a few microblog posts that are Mastodonish it's been the same as Lemmy for me. I did just set up a Mastodon and Pixelfed, though the latter in particular is mostly to host images to be posted on other platforms.

Just Lemmy, and I only moved to Lemmy because of the Reddit protests.
The only reason I use Twitter is so I can follow Sonic and Project 06. I don't think anyone's copypasting that to Mastodon.

Mastodon, Firefish, Mbin, Writefreely
- The first is like twitter, what are the other 3? I’ve never heard of them.

About to reopen a matrix account. Mostly for tech support.
Didn't really like Twitter, Mastodon holds no interest really.
I do like Lemmy a lot but mostly awaiting a search engine and the rest of the Reddit subs moving over.
Maybe there's room for a fediverse fb in my life but I don't see the world moving over anytime soon. I loathe fb but find some of the groups too useful to leave.

mbin!

Pixelfed, and occasionally Mastodon. I love the Pixelfed community, it always seems just very chill and focused on making great pictures.

Mastodon via Ivory. It’s a better experience than Twitter ever was. Great features, nothing locked behind a paywall and the public at large hasn’t really found it yet (thank god).

Mastodon. The people are kinda weird, in different ways than I am weird, but if I post consistently enough I'll build a community or something. I bounce between there and Twitter cause neither community is 100% satisfying
MBin, cause I want to be able to access Lemmy without being on Lemmy

Iceshrimp, a mastodon fork, and a little bit of matrix. I’d like to have a look at pixelfed one of those day just to see if it seems a successful alternative to youknowwhat.

All of them. Mastodon being quite an active one.

Catodon! It's the best microblog UI. So wonderfully designed.

I operate:
Mastodon - https://urda.social - @urda@urda.social
Lemmy / Link Aggregation - https://lebowski.social - !achievers@lebowski.social - @urda@lebowski.social
I use in addition:
Matrix, but I’d like to better understand this software before I self host.
RSS, I use NetNewsWire to read mine.

All of them 😃
It wasn't too long ago that I bit the bullet and decided to get involved in social media. All my social media accounts except for the Discord account I made 2 years ago are only a few weeks or a few months old at most.

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