hey, how has your experience in those federated platforms been?

I’ve tried Mastodon but feel more attracted to Pixelfed’s simplicity, however I tried to sign up to test but my email was flagged as “invalid” despite it being non-temporal lol so I’d like to hear some opinions so I wouldn’t mind trying with another provider if it catches my attention

regarding NeoDB, I track my media on text notes, and while it’s fine it’s easy to forget what those titles actually were only by their names after some time

however, I know not every item in my lists will be available in NeoDB catalogue and porting it whole would take a lot of time
also, I’ve read that NeoDB doesn’t have a “delete account” button for users, is it true?

i use (and enjoy) NeoDB and there is absolutely a delete account option in the settings

NeoDB has fairly comprehensive data import from numerous sites that catalogue media so I don't think I've run into not finding something even once there. Haven't used it much for music though.

I also use Pixelfed and it's generally good apart from occasional bugs. There's also Vernissage (vernissage.photos as flagship instance).

Not your question, but just want to talk about the Mastodon bit.

I've always been interested in microblogging platforms since Twitter originally released, but I've never been able to really engage with them. Over the years I tried Twitter numerous times, later X, tried Bluesky a couple of times, and also tried Mastodon and failed to stick with it.

However lately I've switched to Sharkey (using Aria on Android), which is a fork of Misskey. Sharkey federates with Mastodon, Misskey, and a couple of others that I'm mind blanking on right now.

It's only been coming up to a month since I switched, and I'm absolutely loving it! Plenty of engagement, the Antennas keywords and phrases thing is awesome, and it's just really nice to be on a platform like that without a damn algorithm dictating what I consume

I’m still trying to understand the microblogging “paradigm”, any tips? I might try them again

Currently I’d recommend Vernissage over Pixelfed. The former is actively developed while the latter is stagnant.

I’ve been a Pixelfed user for a few years, but I’m in the process of migrating to Vernissage after seeing how responsive and attractive it is as a platform.

Don't care about follower numbers, and post what's on your mind or engage with others as you see fit. The big one for me though was curating my tabs (feeds), using Antennas was easy for this. So for example, my 'Home' tab is an Antenna tab with a bunch of keywords and phrases that I'm looking for, for example 'linux gaming' and 'retro gaming'.

Took some setup, but super happy with it now

I have been looking at NeoDB but I'm not sure all reviews are shown on federated servers... Most of the reviews seem to be on the main instance but when I look at the other instances that federate with it, all the reviews are not showing up

Nobody interact with each other on vernissage