Lemmy, Sharkey (like Mastodon but with more features), and WAFRN (the fediverse's Tumblr alternative)
Lemmy and Matrix. And I don't use Matrix a helluva lot.
Mastodon, Lemmy, Goto Social, Pixelfed, Bookwyrm.
Peertibes default no federation thing is too frustrating for me to deal with
I've been using Mastodon for eight years and got involved with hosting a small instance for some years now. Also running a Bookwyrm instance and, since a few days, this Lemmy instance which will remain single user most likely.
I have several more Mastodon accounts I'm switching between and inactive Pixelfed, GoToSocial and Friendica accounts.
this Lemmy instance which will remain single user most likely.
You're an evil person, keeping a name as cool as nocturnal garden all to yourself... Where has compassion gone? The world... The world is falling apart, one cool server-name at a time... /j
Hehe thanks! Not 100% decided yet but since it's running on my homeserver and not some VPS I guess I won't open except for friends maybe.
Mostly Lemmy via discuss.online, with a little bit of Pixelfed via social.photo and Mastodon via utter.online.
I was using Loops pretty heavily for a while, but the most recent update made it not work right on my phone (and there's no web version), so maybe I'll try again when it's out of beta. It's also not truly federated atm, so only sort of counts.
I've tried out a bit of PieFed and it looks really nice. Probably the best Lemmy threadiverse alternative atm. The dev does some interesting experiments like Private Voting
loops needs to add selfhosting for vid quality options alone, everythings so blurry
Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy and Bookwyrm. They all seem to cover most of my social media needs which (in all other cases beside Lemmy) can be described as shouting in the void and being happy if someone else is there too.
(in all other cases beside Lemmy) can be described as shouting in the void and being happy if someone else is there too.
Yeah, I get this, to be honest.
Though, I do feel the same way with the centralized social media platforms. I mean, if I make a Tumblr post, I'm really not expecting people to see it. If I just Tweet, as opposed to Tweeting at someone, I don't really expect engagement either... YT videos, Instagram posts... Unless my friends and family use the apps
which is another issue altogether, since I could try to get them to join
I just shouting in the void.
I think it's the lack of theme. Lemmy makes you post with the theme of the community you post to, so it's kind of implied that your posts will reach people that are interested in what you posted. That's kind of how tags work on Mastodon and Twitter, I guess, but it's not quite the same thing.
Mostly Lemmy, but also Peertube, rarely Mastodon I also have accounts on other Fediverse services but I don't use it
Mostly Lemmy for me but sometimes Pixelfed. I'm also a psychopath and browse "everything" with all NSFW filters turned off while at work, so I'm probably not a good judge.
Other than Lemmy, I’ve got a self-hosted and federated Matrix instance. I don’t actually do much with Matrix at the moment, it’s mostly the result of me tinkering with self-hosted services. I did recently bridge it to Discord, and I’ve let my friends know it’s a potential alternative if Discord continues going down the shitter.
Discord continues going down the shitter.
How so? And what do you mean bridge Matrix to Discord?
Mostly referring to the recent rumblings about their potential IPO. Once shareholders get their hands on something, it’s all downhill.
Matrix supports “bridges” for a number of third party services so you can keep in contact with friends who haven’t made the transition to federated services.
Cool :D Thanks for the link, I'll definitely be checking that out~
Once shareholders get their hands on something
We'll see I guess...
I'm an Mbin user.
Mbin is a fork of kbin. Kbin's dev didn't really trust people much, so he wanted to have sole control over what code gets added to kbin. Which led to issues when he wasn't available and development just came to a halt for months because no one could accept changes anymore. The other devs wanted more control so they could actually get shit done, so they decided to fork the project instead.
How different is it from Lemmy? I hear they have better integration with Mastodon.
I think the biggest difference is really the fact that you can subscribe to not just communities but also users. This is where the superior Mastodon compatibility comes into play by allowing us to see posts that don't mention communities. Lemmy only sees Mastodon posts if they mention a community explicitly or an Mbin user has interacted with it.
There's also other stuff like public upvotes, boosting, tags, reputation (karma), and custom community CSS. I don't really know Lemmy well enough to give a full list of where they differ.
I’m an Mbin user.
The Fediverse is pretty cool... Hello, Mbin user!
you can subscribe to not just communities but also users.
Oh, that's interesting.
Not sure what the point of public upvotes is, or what boosting is, but tags and custom CSS sounds cool. How's my Mbin karma?! IDK if that's how it works... I've signed up on your same instance, I'll see how it goes.
Thank you for your comment!
Not sure what the point of public upvotes is,
Well, you can see who upvoted something. kbin also allowed seeing downvotes, but that got removed because of worries about harassment.
By looking at who upvoted a specific post you liked, you can find like-minded people to follow. I also find it cool to see the different instances and platforms the upvotes come from.
Boosting is a bit complicated. It's supposed to be retweeting basically, and does work that way under the hood. Posts boosted from Mbin do appear that way from Mastodon. However, I don't think Mbin itself currently treats boosts as more than just an even more public upvote (with regular upvotes you can see who upvoted a post, not what posts a user upvoted; boosts are publically listed on profiles).
Hmm I see.
Not sure how much use I'd get of public upvotes, personally, but boosting/re-posting seems like a genuinely nice feature.
How's my Mbin karma
It's 2500~, but it doesn't affect anything on Mbin, so there's no point worrying about it
Thanks! Yeah, I have no idea how that's even calculated or whatever so... If it doesn't even affect anything, I don't see why I would care lol
It's basically the same as Reddit karma, it's just the sum of upvotes+downvotes you got
If it doesn't even affect anything, I don't see why I would care lol
Same, idc, but some people care about it. Also piefed cares, I think it puts a red icon in the username of the users with negative reputation and their posts start with 0 upvotes instead of 1. (If I'm not mistaken)
It's basically the same as Reddit karma, it's just the sum of upvotes+downvotes you got
There's one difference: boosts give you +2 reputation points.
Is there plans for an Mbin mobile app?
There's Interstellar which is made by the admin of my instance. I don't know if the Mbin devs have plans for their own official app.
I’m not entirely sure what makes “subscribing to users” different from following people on social media. Can you explain?
Oh, that's what I meant. And Mbin calls it following too. I just said "subscribing" because it's the same action behind the scenes, just different terms to refer to it, and I was using "communities" first in the same sentence.
subscribe to not just communities but also users
Ah got it. Context threw me off I see what you mean now
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