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 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 a gewd kedi right there. Had to give up my cat 4 months ago, though fortunately one of my sisters was able to take her in so I still get to see her sometimes. Going to go upstairs and pet the cat of the sister I’m staying with seeing this.
That’s an interesting experience. Sometimes I feel like my feed has too many cat pictures.
Here’s a cutie I bet you don’t see every day everywhere you go…
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 !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone, sorting by top in the last day I can see three memes with cats: https://programming.dev/c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone?dataType=Post&sort=TopDay
But the real action is here: https://programming.dev/c/cat@lemmy.world?dataType=Post&sort=New
There are like 20 posts in the last few days, most of them with plenty of upvotes.
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
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
While peertube has no content you can follow the channels from here and interact with it, that is what I am doing and it does not feel as empty as doing it over there. (Also you do not have to create a new account!) Does not solve the content problem but I think it good to use it for those creators that are !thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com It actually works fairly well with lemmy (alot better than mastodon as the design and concept is not compatible), just that posts rarely get the same burst of interaction that things on lemmy get which is why it never shows up on your feed. Lemmy gets multicomms in 1.0 though so you can create one for peertube.
well do you hope that peertube will have content
I’m on mastodon, lemmy, pixelfed, and loops. Also on Bluesky until the ads start.
Here to avoid ads and dark patterns. Fediverse is where interaction is done with users in mind instead of being the product. No nasty algorithms here.
Hell yeah.
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
Just Lemmy. I never had Twitter so Mastodon probably wouldn’t appeal, I had that problem with Bluesky.
More than anything Reddit just got annoying to use. I had no social media at all for a bit until I signed up for Lemmy, and I haven’t decided if I like it yet. I do enjoy that there isn’t a ton of content to endlessly scroll, feels healthier I guess.
I want Peertube to be good but the content just isn’t there for me yet.
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.
I’ve had my Lemmy account since 2 years but admittedly spent most of my time on ‘the other site’. Until today, as I got banned for 3 days due to a single word. It was the push that I needed as I’ve now deleted my account and will use Lemmy exclusivly.
What was the word?
Eradicated in relation to the Russian regime.
ive been here for 1, originally on ee. before that suddenly died , big istance had alot more content then now, unfortunately, because people scattered too much. i recently made an acct on that site too, nope so sudden ban.
Lemmy -> KBIN -> MBIN -> Piefed (just in the browser; no app/frontend). I don’t use mastadon (I don’t care for microblogging period).
Peertube has issues with discovery from what I see people posting. On the creator side, there’s no earning model and the whole process is more complicated for a smaller audience.
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
well great for you
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
Been on mastodon for awhile. I decided to make a lemmy account because trying to view lemmy from mastodon is annoying.
do you think peertube got the least of the migration waves that happened in i dont remember
I didn’t know that was still running
I’m not sure what peertube is? So I guess so??
well peertube is like youtube but fedi
I only use mastodon and lemmy as far as I know
Only lemmy, mastodon and twitter type stuff never made sense to me. I like that most fediverse platforms I’ve seen are being run by passionate people instead of just for a financial incentive.
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.
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.
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
Pretty much only Lemmy. I use it because I believe centralized social media and the companies that run it are killing the internet, and want to put energy into something that might replace it instead of creating free content for Reddit as I did for years.
