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
I started like dozens of others when the api thing, but still visit reddit in read-only incognito mode because of the content. Not just the niche stuff, even mainstream things like soccer, F1 or chess, there is no content on lemmy. Anything that’s not politics, ai or Linux, basically. Even for tech, I usually find better content of linkedin than lemmy. Yes, not only ceos and recruiters post on linkedin if you follow the right people you can learn a bunch. But shitposting is fun, so I’m also here.
Not using any other fediverse services, it’s the same content in a different format.
i made an account for niche unfortunately, i had a burning questions i was asking. never on the MAIN PAGE, too toxic. you already can see even the most benign ones are astroturf by propaganda.
I use Lemmy, Mastodon, and Peertube.
I just use Lemmy.
I used to browse imgur but they allowed advertising for AfD which caused me to search for a more ethical feeling platform.
wait so far right parties use imgur to advertise themselves
I stopped using imgur when they got it in their heads they wanted to be social media instead of an image hosting site. The few times I’ve tried to follow a link there recently it’s been unusable, this is just icing on the shit cake
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.
well great for you
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 an interesting experience. Sometimes I feel like my feed has too many cat pictures.
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 [email protected], sorting by top in the last day I can see three memes with cats: https://programming.dev/c/[email protected]?dataType=Post&sort=TopDay
But the real action is here: https://programming.dev/c/[email protected]?dataType=Post&sort=New
There are like 20 posts in the last few days, most of them with plenty of upvotes.
Here’s a cutie I bet you don’t see every day everywhere you go…
Just lemmy… but it is kind of a waste land… not alot of commentary or sometimes i get random feed posts in language i dont understand lol.
you may want to subscribe to a community to get content that you care about
Lemmy. I have a piefed but it was mostly just showing the same stuff as Lemmy, but later. I did like it, though.
Think I registered Mastodon and either a loops or peertube account but never really used them
Came to lemmy when I couldn’t stand reddit anymore
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.
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.
only lemmy dont have the energy to switch, besides the last one went down last year.
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
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.
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
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.pretty much just piefed et al. I think of it as the federation. I used to love the old newsgroups back in the day and eventually found slashdot when the millenium was new and later reddit but this is the closest I have been to newsgroups to me. the alt. rec. etc thing. they actually got ruined by spam. I think they would still be big if they had user filter config type of stuff.
I keep checking in on Pixelfed but the android app isn’t user friendly. And I think a few days ago the servers were down.
pixelfed def needs to mature.
Pixelix is great
Interesting. It’s prettier. Is there a way to view the list of hashtags I’m following?
Profile (bottom right), 3 dots (top right), there they are
There they are! Thanks
the servers didnt shutdown they went off temporarly due to a fatal issue but they likely fixed it
Yeah I just checked it’s back up. But the app is still pretty rough.
