In random order
Loops
Peertube very sparingly. Youtube is still king.
Lemmy. Nuked my 14 year old Reddit account today. Lemmy is great.
Pixelfed
Mastodon
Wordpress if that is counted as federated
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2025
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Gosh, I have to try out Loops...
Lemmy. Nuked my 14 year old Reddit account today. Lemmy is great.
NGL, I think Lemmy is better than Reddit. I enjoy it more. I can't put my finger on why, though... They're basically the same... Maybe it's just a UI issue.
I can tell you why, it's the absolutely shitty Reddit mobile app that's filled with annoying ads. Meanwhile, Lemmy has some really good third-party apps
Well, no, it is not that... My Reddit app has no ads. I vanced it.
I don't get ads on anything, nowadays. I can imagine how that might sour the experience tho.
The Lemmy apps are way better than the Reddit app tho, that's for sure!
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Rebased
Mastodon
Akkoma
Soapbox
Lemmy
I also have Lotide accounts but I don't use them very much. I also have an emergency alt on Nostr which federates via Mostr but IDK if y'all are counting that as being part of the Fediverse.
Also Kbin was superceded by Mbin
What Fediverse services do you actually, regularly use?
I am an instance administrator for three Friendica instances, Mastodon glitch-soc and Lemmy. I am also a moderator for three large Mastodon instances, Pixelfed and Flohmarkt...
Putting the software I use the most in the first place, I would say I use:
- Mastodon, that is my historical account @informapirata (Mastodon is really immediate) and Friendica (the most complete experience even if less ergonomic)
- Mastodon glitch-soc (immediate like Mastodon, but with formatting)
- Lemmy (fast and with the best layout in the fediverse)
- Peertube
- Pixelfed, Mbin, Pleroma, Misskey, Piefed, Bonfire etc that I use mostly for testing
- Flohmarkt that I started using only a few weeks ago
You're deep into the Fediverse!
Flohmarkt is an interesting concept, I've heard of it before, but I don't know much about.
You’re deep into the Fediverse!
Yes... 😅 "E il naufragar m'è dolce in questo mare... 🤣"
Flohmarkt is an interesting concept, I’ve heard of it before, but I don’t know much about.
at the moment it is very little: it is almost touching for how basic it is in its functions! it even lacks the RSS feed which is a constant for almost all the software of the Fediverse... 😅
However I am convinced that it could have a very interesting development in the medium and long term
it even lacks the RSS feed
Oh boy... Well... I'll keep tabs on it!
Maybe soon!!
I'm currently busy setting up my own Lemmy instance and PeerTube instance. Before the Fediverse, YT and Reddit were basically the only things I used, I was never a big fan of twitter-like social media. So those slot in nicely into those itches to scratch. (although there are still some creators I follow on YT, I have been watching it a lot less after getting serious with PeerTube)
Can you find a lot of content on PeerTube? What do you look for on there?
By now: Yeah, there are some nice creators on PeerTube. Overall, it feels a bit more like old YouTube, many more people just creating because they want to, instead of chasing fame, as well as bizarre and weird little videos here and there. One advantage of it: It has much better native embedding into Lemmy (at least on newer versions)!
Much like in other fedi-places, it's work to curate your own feed instead of having algorithms feed you. I have ADHD, so usually, I have some video or something running on my second screen while working on other stuff, and whenever my attention is spent, I switch to there and scour the recent or trending feed (or new vids from subscribers) for something interesting to share and watch.
For anyone interested - I am always happy to plug [email protected] - we recently hit 200 subscribers and have been steadily growing. If you are looking for an instance to join, I am still tinkering with it, but mine is open to new applications for as long as the server resources allow.
Hmmm, I see... I'm interested in getting into PeerTube and dropping YT, partially, at least, so that's good to know.
I see you talk about EU regulations in your instance. Is it hosted in the EU? If that's the case, I'd love to join it! :D
I see you talk about EU regulations in your instance. Is it hosted in the EU? If that’s the case, I’d love to join it! :D
Yupp, hosted in Finland over a German provider (Hetzner)
Well, I'm in there!!!!
I'm an Mbin user.
Mbin is a fork of kbin. Kbin's dev didn't really trust people much, so he wanted to have sole control over what code gets added to kbin. Which led to issues when he wasn't available and development just came to a halt for months because no one could accept changes anymore. The other devs wanted more control so they could actually get shit done, so they decided to fork the project instead.
How different is it from Lemmy? I hear they have better integration with Mastodon.
I think the biggest difference is really the fact that you can subscribe to not just communities but also users. This is where the superior Mastodon compatibility comes into play by allowing us to see posts that don't mention communities. Lemmy only sees Mastodon posts if they mention a community explicitly or an Mbin user has interacted with it.
There's also other stuff like public upvotes, boosting, tags, reputation (karma), and custom community CSS. I don't really know Lemmy well enough to give a full list of where they differ.
Kbin's dev didn't really trust people much, so he wanted to have sole control over what code gets added to kbin
The developer of Kbin is an absolute genius and Kbin was one of the most beautiful and original things ever done in the Fediverse, with a hybridization between microblogging and threadiverse like never seen before. It's a real shame that he ended support for Kbin, but I think he got burned out...
I think the biggest difference is really the fact that you can subscribe to not just communities but also users
This is an added value, but it was also a critical aspect. The fact of having allowed to follow users and not only communities (magazines) has determined a significant slowdown of the server.
Furthermore, this great added value of joining microblogging to threadiverse, does not make the interface very easy to read. This was taken sic et simpliciter from Mbin, without further developments. Perhaps, if the original developer had remained active, he could have taken the responsibility of making some sensible changes to the Knin interface...
I’m an Mbin user.
The Fediverse is pretty cool... Hello, Mbin user!
you can subscribe to not just communities but also users.
Oh, that's interesting.
Not sure what the point of public upvotes is, or what boosting is, but tags and custom CSS sounds cool. How's my Mbin karma?! IDK if that's how it works... I've signed up on your same instance, I'll see how it goes.
Thank you for your comment!
How's my Mbin karma
It's 2500~, but it doesn't affect anything on Mbin, so there's no point worrying about it
Thanks! Yeah, I have no idea how that's even calculated or whatever so... If it doesn't even affect anything, I don't see why I would care lol
It's basically the same as Reddit karma, it's just the sum of upvotes+downvotes you got
If it doesn't even affect anything, I don't see why I would care lol
Same, idc, but some people care about it. Also piefed cares, I think it puts a red icon in the username of the users with negative reputation and their posts start with 0 upvotes instead of 1. (If I'm not mistaken)
Meh, I suppose!!! Thanks for the info~ :D
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