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 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.
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
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
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.
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
wait so far right parties use imgur to advertise themselves
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.
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.
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.
well great for you
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
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’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’m trying out Piefed. Lemmy looks like relatively good software, but I don’t like the political views of the developers behind Lemmy. Their whole shtick seems to be “non-western countries good, western countries bad”.
Of course, western countries have done many bad things. But I think plenty of non-western countries have also done bad things. I just don’t buy into a narrative which always tries to paint western countries as “the bad guys” and non-western countries as “the good guys”.
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.
only lemmy dont have the energy to switch, besides the last one went down last year.
I use Lemmy, Mastodon, and Peertube.
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.
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.
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
