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I have fully transitioned to using Lemmy and Mastodon right when third party apps weren't allowed on Spez's place anymore, so I don't know how it is over there anymore.

What do you use? Are you still switching between the two, essentially dualbooting?

What other social media do you use? How do you feel about Fediverse social media platforms in general?

(I'm sorry if I'm the 100th person to ask this on here...)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

in this order: Discord, YouTube, Lemmy

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Yeah I'm on Lemmy and Mastodon. I also still watch YouTube. They haven't passed whatever my threshold is for suckitude, yet. I'm sure it's coming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Lemmy is too quiet and has little local activity so I still glance at FB and Reddit

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

yeah i basically only use lemmy and watch youtube videos, or i pirate media, play games with friends, or do stupid stuff with my computer that i shouldnt be allowed to do

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ok that is fair. I commented on someone elses comment here that they should try out PeerTube, as that is a decentralized option with all the benefits of the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

it does have the deficit of not having anybody i regularly watch on there, although i would love that to change

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Mostly Lemmy. Mastodon sometimes – I have to spend more time there muting RSS bot accounts to find stuff of my interest.

Dipping my toes into Bluesky as well. So far it's been good – very polished experience.

I also lurk quite a bit on Tildes.net.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Besides this place, I also use Imgur and YouTube to help fill in the void after leaving reddit. I'm considering joining Bluesky and Mastodon as well but I've never used a Twitter-like interface before so it's intimidating.

Unfortunately I still haven't found a suitable replacement for niche communities. There's always forums, but I got too used to points-based communities, and because comments are sorted chronologically, it's hard to know what's crap and what's actual useful information. Which can suck if you need a good opinion on something. 20-30 years ago that wouldn't have even bothered me, cause forums were the only social media I knew then. But times have changed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

For me its startet for some years ago with Mastodon,then I grew into the fediverse (I didn't know anything about it) and now I use loops.video (stil its made for doomscroling) mastodon, Lemmy and pixelfed. Loops I think I'm to old to use that much, (to fast for me) but else I'm really happy with the social media. I haven't been on a mainstream SOME for 3 years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy after reddit banned me. I've been getting into Bluesky, too. Sometimes Mastodon. I'm open to other suggestions, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Imgur if you want memes, cats, and politics, but keep in mind that they're not much better than reddit. No 3rd party apps, and the official app has ads & sells your data to Facebook. You can block it by using the DDG app and enabling App Tracking Protection, however. Also setting your phone's DNS server to dns.adguard-dns.com. You should be doing those two things anyway, regardless of what apps you do or don't use.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I use rdx.overdevs.com to read reddit still as it has a lot more fashion, art and vegan content than here, but the only places I interact online in that way anymore are the Fediverse and Fragrantica, but the latter only really for perfume related stuff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Youtube

There are so many really good animators on the platform

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Started on lemmy today after reddit perma banned my 14 year old account for breaking the first rule of reddit. I may have told some to kill themselves. I'm definitely in the wrong but I don't care I'm taking the ban personally and never using it again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I lost my 10+ yr old account because I got auto banned from a mess of subs for leaving a comment on an anti vax sub CRITICAL of them. You have to love lazy mods who ban without any consideration of context. Now I just glance at the posts and comments and avoid the urge to participate.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mostly on Lemmy. I'm on Mastadon too. I don't know if YouTube counts but I'm on there as well and is the only corporate social media I use consistently.

I find myself using Instagram more but only following a handful of creators, I don't post or check on my feed. I deleted my Twitter and LinkedIn but can't get myself to delete my Meta accounts because of the people that I have contact with on there. I hardly contact ppl but the sentimentally of the connections is something

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Try Pixelfed for a good Insta alternative. It's open source, supports self hosting, and federates with ActivityPub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Mostly Lemmy, but still appending reddit to my Google searches. Just started with Bluesky, seems promising.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

s/main/only/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Lemmy is the only thing i post to occasionally. On Reddit and Instagram i just lurk

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Lemmy and matrix, I still use Discord though because the communities are more active

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I pretty much only use Lemmy (and loops but it's not really finished yet) but I have mastodon too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Just lemmy in a browser for me. Never used facebag or twatter or others besides reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I am so sorry, but several of my favorite journalists are still on Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

newsboat is a gem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I primarily use Lemmy. It's the only place to really find intelligent conversation. I hop over to reddit on occasion for topics that just aren't here yet. But almost every comment thread is either full of bots or those with little reading comprehension.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Lemmy and Discord.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I've got a private chat with a small group of friends. That's my primary social media. We share news and discuss ideas.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I was never much of a social media guy, especially after moonlighting one summer as a social media marketer on Twitter and Instagram (really, really kills it for ya), but I was a redditor for a while.

I swapped over to Lemmy exclusively during the API fees, but to be fair I was already getting frustrated by the service. The karma farming was just too much, so many stupid reposts of the same stupid made up wholesome stories and crap. I think I only miss r/comics and r/idiotsincars, the later requiring a critical mass of people to actually be worthwhile.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Do you use other social media? If yes, which services? What are your screennames and handles? What street did you grow up on? What was your Elementary School's maiden name?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Lemmy and Mastodon for me. I don’t get a lot of engagement on Mastodon but I never did on twitter either. So Lemmy is probably 90% of my interaction and mastodon is basically an reader for certain hashtags and people on the fedi

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Lemmy. For more niche communities that don't exist on Lemmy I use RSS feeds on specific subreddits. Discord for chatting with friend and other niche communities. LinkedIn because I'm in academia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Never used Facebook much. Nor Myspace before it. Seemed like it had some obvious pitfalls that everyone else was ignoring.

Used Twitter for a little while, but it was just making me mad. Then horrible guy bought it, so I deleted the already abandoned account.

Instagram also seemed like a source of feeling bad, so I never used it much.

I left reddit recently. It had some good content but the ownership sucks. With general Internet search getting bad, losing reddit sucks. Like, I searched yesterday for how to disable a setting in some app, and landed on some AI slop website that told me to write a letter to my local news station.

So this is all that's left for me. It's frustrating that most people don't give a shit and will just move on to the next private platform. I had a friend who was generally smart and successful, but she just didn't give a shit about this kind of thing. She wanted her easy entertainment, so she was on all the major platforms. Mastodon "didn't have good content" so she didn't use it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Lemmy and Facebook

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

My main social media app is Mastodon (technically Firefish which I will soon migrate to Iceshrimp... but those details are less relevant)

I consider Lemmy less so of a "social media" and more of a link aggregator/discussion forum... but yeah otherwise I try to use Lemmy a bit too. I still browse Reddit quite a lot, but only for individual communities that don't have equivalents on Lemmy, and I no longer post there

I never used much social media to begin with tbh... I feel pretty decent about the Fediverse. Despite all the drawbacks (blocklists, fedi drama, etc), I think people collectively managed to make an objectively better social media platforms compared to the previous corporation-dominated ones (at least by my personal metrics)

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

hey, I know this funi! I've seen this guy on 196 before!

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