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 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.

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.

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.

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

wait so far right parties use imgur to advertise themselves

well do you hope that peertube will have content

you may want to subscribe to a community to get content that you care about

well great for you

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

well great for you

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 came from reddit when the API thing shut down my mobile app of choice (RIP Baconreader). I tried lemmy and kbin right away, but couldn't really get into kbin. This is my only active social media account, unless you count an occasional steam review as social media. I have been using the jerboa app and it works nicely.

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.

I use Mastodon (rarely), Lemmy/PieFed (mainly) and PeerTube (occasionally) because I re-upload the content of another small creator. Some of the channels I follow I mentioned in this older comment, but the advice is relevant here as well.
Ask creators you follow to mirror to PeerTube and you’ll have a reason to start using it more!

For YouTubers especially it can be as easy as setting up automatic synchronisation once and forgetting about it.

Edit: or be the one uploading for them if you have permission and the time for it like me ;)

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.

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.

Piefed, I like it a lot better than lemmy so far. That's it! I don't think that bluesky counts because everyone's just on the default server. I'd like to jump on pixelfed, but I can't find any servers for NSFW content.

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! ;)

I use Lemmy via Jerboa, Mastodon via Pachli (I used to use Moshidon but the dev stopped updating the app), Pixelfed via Pixelix, and Loops. All to combat big technofascist platforms, ever since I saw the video explaining how dickMusk stole the 2024 election.

I'd use Peertube more if all the Youtubers I followed started posting there in addition to posting on YouTube. For now, I use Wizestream on my phone/tablet and SmartTube on my Onn 4k TV box for YouTube.

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.

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?

I also use Lemmy, Mastodon, Loops, and on occasion I use Pixelfed.

I use Lemmy, Mastodon, and Peertube.

You match me aside that Mastodon is my most used followed by Lemmy and then Bookwyrm.

I started like dozens of others when the api thing, but still visit reddit in read-only incognito mode because of the content. Not just the niche stuff, even mainstream things like soccer, F1 or chess, there is no content on lemmy. Anything that's not politics, ai or Linux, basically. Even for tech, I usually find better content of linkedin than lemmy. Yes, not only ceos and recruiters post on linkedin if you follow the right people you can learn a bunch. But shitposting is fun, so I'm also here.

Not using any other fediverse services, it's the same content in a different format.

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.

Lemmy is enough for me! Nowhere is perfect but there's a good balance here, and there are more uhh politically prosocial folks here compared to Reddit so I can't complain too much. 👍

I haven't even checked the other fediverse offers, but I assume they're also better (at least "vibe" wise) than the more popular and problematic alternatives.

Same here. The only socials I have beyond this are Strava, a few Discord communities for tech support-type stuff and YouTube comments if that counts.

The Reddit API exodus was the canary in the coal mine for me. My entire technical/social life changed for the better after that.

That's an interesting experience. Sometimes I feel like my feed has too many cat pictures.

I just use lemmy, and a little matrix.

Mastodon/twitter likes never really caught my attention, too much noise to signal.

Matrix doesn't completely click, I don't get this half message board half chatroom business. It's too slow to be a chatroom but too fast to be a board you read a few times a day.

Here’s a cutie I bet you don’t see every day everywhere you go…

Ive hosted and contributed to a couple of federated platforms. Just little pull requests to help us all along.

The current list that I use is:

• Mastodon
• Peertube
• Piefed
• GotoSocial (kinda sorta same as mastodon)
• And just today catodon.rocks

Ive also hosted:

• pixelfed
• lemmy
• freindica
• funkwhale

And a number I forgot about. snac looked interesting too.

Of all of them Gotosocial has been the most stable for single user instance, piefed fuels my addition, peertube got my dog lots of subscriptions, and mastodon remains a stable.

Im having an absolutely fantastic time.

I use lemmy primarily. I’ll use mastodon for the occasional watch party, but otherwise I’m inactive there. I’m currently exploring both loops and Pixelfed, but not sure how I feel about either yet. I’ve been meaning to look into peertube, bookwyrm, and neodb.

pixelfed def needs to mature.

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.

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.

I’ve an alt on .world that I just don’t use much anymore.

only lemmy dont have the energy to switch, besides the last one went down last year.

i made an account for niche unfortunately, i had a burning questions i was asking. never on the MAIN PAGE, too toxic. you already can see even the most benign ones are astroturf by propaganda.

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.

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.

this was nicely written

Pixelix is great

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.