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.
The other use for Twitter was for porn,
Brother I been watching porn since before twitter on way better websites
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.
Literally my exact thought process.
Same here. I don’t mind microblogging, but I find it hard to find good content to follow on Mastodon. Also not a fan of my feed being filled with replies. Not having the thread right there for context is distracting and annoying.
No idea what sharkey is. Don’t really care to find out.
Sharkey is mastodon but with way more features.
idk, Mastodon has official apps for iOS and I think also more users
Aria is a client for Sharkey. Users doesn’t really matter since they interoperate. (Also: it supports the mastodon API.)
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the thing you have to remember is that the internet is built off the backs of furries and trans women.
that’s not to say that all tech workers are one of those two, but a lot of those two work in tech, specifically open source.
Don’t believe me? look up programer/Unix socks.
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).
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.
Also the way it links with Lemmy feels weird
And the culture is just different. It’s like…imagine the threadiverse portion of the fediverse as a library or a meeting room where people are having a quiet discussion. Mastodon accounts feel like they’re barging in all loud and boorish like “HEYYYYY! LOOK AT ME!!! HASHTAG HASHTAG HASHTAG”
When people started to move over from twitter, the culture changed significantly. People treat mastodon like twitter not knowing all the “restrictions” like char count are things that can be adjusted in admin.
The character limit is hardcoded in two places. They could, and should make it a setting, or just eliminate it.
I think there is a real divide on the internet between those who prefer longer format conversations around posting reposts, and just, micro logged, idk, I don’t want to be derogatory, but like, micro content?
I just throw it up as “I never got twitter”, but it does precisely 0 for me.
I use both and I agree. I have a different mindset on mastodon, there I care more about who is saying something than what they say. I have a small group of people I care about. On lemmy/piefed I care about what someone says but not who they are. It’s all about the topic.
I have a mastodon :3 not so much for the other services tho
I have mastodon but I barely use it. I did set up a Bookwyrm too but I don’t maintain it like I should. This is my time sink for sure.
I mostly use a piefed account, though I have a sopuli.xyz, fedia.io and mastodon as well. I also used Kbin, Mbin and lemm.ee when it was still around.
Never much liked mastodon. I’m not sure if the place just isn’t large enough or what but I ultimately find it pretty meh. I tend to use bluesky if I want microblog style content.
I liked fedia and Kbin a lot for how they integrated mastodon and Lemmy into one feed for me to interact with. But you’ll rarely see me comment from there anymore.
I currently use my sopuli.xyz account to scroll through a more diverse feed featuring languages I may not know and people I am unfamiliar with as an American.
I never hade Twitter or the likes so I don’t really interact with those types of apps all too often, but I have a Mastodon and a Pixelfed that I look at every once in a while. Also recently got a Loops account that I have barely opened.
Always nice to have an account set up and ready if I feel like using them in the future
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I went from Twitter to Mastodon but I left Mastodon. The ui is too much like Twitter. I’m not a fan of Bluesky either.
I like the ui of Lemmy. Following sub’s or communities is more my speed.
Started with Lemmy & Pixelfed earlier this year.
Now:
- 60% Mastodon (largely watch parties like #KungFuSat, #Monsterdon etc)
- 35% Piefed (threadiverse like Lemmy)
- 5% NeoDB (media logging & collections like Letterboxd, Goodreads etc)
I don’t use Pixelfed any more cuz images only doesn’t really interest me.
I have a PeerTube account but don’t browse much and have only uploaded a handful of files. Might do more in future.
I tried Hubzilla, but soon got locked out of my account (password error?). Haven’t bothered trying to reactivate yet, but might.
I have a Sharkey account, mainly to try something “Mastodon-like” but with more functionality (longer posts, markup, etc). But my timeline is too dominated by a handful of users, and it’s no good for watch parties, so I barely use it.
I got an account on Gush (media logging/blogging?) thinking it was like NeoDB, but now I think you’re literally supposed to gush 😁 about some media / game with a long review, whereas I mainly want tracking, lists, ratings.
I’ve done a couple of pages on Ibis (wiki from Lemmy developers), but until it becomes more developed & widespread, I’m contributing to joinfediverse.wiki.
I’m considering trying out Mbin, to unify my threadiverse & blogging universes and some other features.
I tried Hubzilla, Akkoma, and Mastodon. I still use Mastodon. I have the ActivityPub plugin on a Wordpress site, but haven’t yet migrated that site’s Mastodon account because Wordpress doesn’t offer a great experience for consuming content from accounts I follow. I may try out Wafrn.
I’ve always had mixed feelings about the microblogging category. Low friction to post and interact is good. Character limits and a complete lack of formatting, not so much. I set the character limit on my self-hosted Mastodon instance to a big number I never approach; I routinely exceed the default 500.
I was aware of Lemmy for a while, but didn’t join until the Reddit API fiasco because most of the activity was weird political extremism until suddenly a ton of people wanted Reddit alternatives and new servers sprang up.
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.
I tried tildes.net first and it was alright but always too serious for me to really feel like myself. It’s not the fediverse but it is a reddit-like.
Then I got hooked on Mastodon. I had been on Twitter before but never liked it. Mastodon just felt so much nicer and clever and I felt like I could be myself. I also got lucky and joined a great instance right off the bat.
After that, I found Lemmy and eventually piefed, and it was 196 that really made it stick for me.
I tried loops too but never got the same compulsion/reward loop, kind of like tildes.
I would love a Facebook replacement for my real-life friends, but the network effect is a pretty strong deterrent. I’ve heard good things about go-to social in general. Maybe I’ll try that out, but I’m pretty content with the services I already check regularly.
I have accounts on pixelfed and mastodon, but I don’t use them often. I’ve also moved from Lemmy to Piefed (which interacts with the lemmyverse, but runs on different software). I prefer it, as it comes with some better features and without the politics of the Lemmy devs.
Personally I don’t care what the devs think as long as it doesn’t trickle down into the software itself. If they somehow hardcoded censorship of things critical of China and Russia then I’d be worried. But I can see your point. Commie devs attract more Commies which leads to a Commie echo chamber where non Commies don’t feel welcome.
frankly, it’s because Piefed feels like Lemmy 2.0.
I’ve been using lemmy for a couple of years, now, and I’ve seen very little improvement, especially UI/UX improvements based on user feedback. mostly because of the shitty, arrogant devs who only work on what they feel is important, in their incredibly detached and elitist manner.
fuck 'em. it’s not really the politics-- it’s that the devs are openly hostile shitheads to the general community, especially if anyone dares disagree with them, ever.
Piefed is more refined, has a few added (very convenient) features, and provides a superior web experience. On mobile, it’s mostly the same, but the Piefed web interface seems to prioritize features and ease-of-use over the ‘look what I made in Rust! Bow down before me!’ mentality. also, it’s coded in Python, so it’s just as fast, but with a lot of legacy library support, so development and upgrades come quickly.
Ah I didn’t realize it went beyond the devs being tankies. Yeah if they won’t take feedback that will just cause things to stagnate. Maybe I should check out Piefed.
EDIT: as a non developer what’s the deal with rust and those who use it?
I’ll start by wrapping up my Lemmy dev comments: they’re just a bag of dicks. Yes, they invented something novel and fantastic, and I do very much appreciate their efforts, but they’re a bag of dicks. One of the cool things about Lemmy and the fediverse is that, if one group is a bag of dicks, there’s always some other group who is much more agreeable doing the same thing. And it’s not competition, it’s just growing the community.
Second, to explain to someone who isn’t a developer, rust is a very new programming language that offers a lot of novel concepts, extreme efficiency, and a lot of interesting functionality. One of the big problems, however, is, due to the fact that it is a very new operating system, there is no massive library of pre-existing libraries (in the developer context) to use to aid encoding an application.
See, whenever you need to do something that is commonly done in a lot of other applications, there’s usually, for most programming languages, an existing library, or a set of libraries that you can simply import in order to add certain functionalities rather than coding the entire thing yourself. With rust, because it is so new, developing any sort of new thing or advancement, requires the developer to hand code everything. While it is very exciting, and all of the ground level innovation occurs at this point, building a mission critical application out out of this, even for the most skilled developer, means you have to do 10 to 1000 times more work to get the same effect. Because you cannot stand on the shoulders of Giants, you must build yourself up to be a giant, yourself.
Piefed, a Lemmie clone, is built on Python… One of the oldest scripting/programming languages that exists. It is very stable, it is extremely widely taught, it’s very easy to understand, use, and develop in such of environment, and there are at least four decades worth of functional libraries to tap into. Rapidly iterating software versions based on python is much faster and requires far less developer work, because they can stand on the shoulders of the 45+ years of giants that preceded them.
It’s not simply a social philosophy, but an entirely different philosophy of development methodology. What the lead developers did is remarkable, and very amazing. But they have not substantially improved upon their initial product in almost 5 years. Others have. And the reason why they have not made monumental leaps of improvement? Because that three or four people are in charge of Lenny development, and they are all of the same mind that “I know best, and fuck anyone who would say different“. That attitude marks any developers time of death, because, for developer to survive through multiple generations, they must be both open minded and flexible. The Lemmy Debs are the antithesis of both of those things.
So, I placed my bet on Piefed. It let me without the asshole doves who see no future, but their own self interest.
I couldn’t give a shit if they’re communist. But they are dicks about it, so fuck em
