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 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.

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...

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'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 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 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 in 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 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 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.

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.

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 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 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.

Nope

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'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.

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.

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 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 have a mastodon :3 not so much for the other services tho

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 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.

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.

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*allegedly

I use Lemmy and Mastadon daily. Two different things. Love them both.

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.

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.

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've been on mastodon for years, but far less active than lemmy

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

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.

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.