Ask Lemmy

No, I never liked Twitter, so I can't even begin to bother about mastodon. Never heard of the other one.

I tried the Instagram clone for a few days (forgot the name), but it was so empty I left it again.

The use case of Reddit/lemmy is entirely different from Twitter/x/mastodon. In Reddit/lemmy, there’s a topic of interest, and people chime in. In Twitter/etc, there’s people of interest, and they discuss topics.

I don’t care who is talking, I just want to talk about stuff. So the twitter style has zero interest for me.

No. One social media is enough. Lemmy meets all my needs.

I was interested in PieFed and plan to give it a try at some point, but still have only used Lemmy. The other formats just aren't as interesting to me. I don't care about specific people, so Mastodon isn't my bag. I care more about the conversations with friendly internet strangers. I don't even have profile pictures enabled on Lemmy, I'd prefer everyone to just dissolve into a sea of unrecognition.

I tried Element for Matrix, but I prefer forums to chatrooms.

Perhaps it's because I haven't subscribed to a lot of communities here (Lemmy), but I find Mastodon (and Sharkey by extension due to their federation with Mastodon instances) more active than Lemmy.

I've got an account in programming.dev (Lemmy), fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and fedia.social (IceShrimp ≈ Sharkey, loosely). I've also got a very inactive Reddit account.

No. Twitter always sucked, even before Musk. Instagram was always stupid, even before Zuck. Facebook was a stupid copy of MySpace, which was stupid to begin with. Reddit was a good format, though made worse repeatedly by being run by Reddit. Hence, Lemmy.

I don't care about the social media as much as I care about keeping the app I already know how to use lol. I used boost for reddit for years, then I changed to boost for lemmy.

I've tried a handful with Mastodon being my favorite and Lemmy a close second.

Never heard of Sharkey.

I was in mastodon first for several months before moving to lemme. some good interesting posts and content but it was harder to filter out advertising and self promotion and I just prefer following topics and communities instead of people. Monsterdon is worth experiencing if you haven't though, Monday 2am gmt cheesy horror movies watch party just having fun and cracking jokes.

I’m more of a forum user than a microblogger, and google says sharkey is a kids haircut place

@url Friendica is where it's at!

Mastodon, not my cup of tea (to be fair, neither was Twitter). I just don't find micro-blogging to be very engaging and my mind categorizes it as "brain rot".

Sharkey? Haven't heard of that one until I just googled it, but one look at their mascot and....no. Just... no.

Have been looking at joining Piefed instance, though.

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.

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.

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'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).

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.

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.

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.

Yes, I tried Mastodon prior to Lemmy, iirc. When I post my art I post it from Mastodon because it's easy to crosspost it to Lemmy.

No.
I specifically wanted a Reddit-like thing.

Mastodon is more a Twitter-replacement, isn't it?

And never heard of Sharkey before...

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

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.

Yea I use Mastodon, it's great.

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.

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 on 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.