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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] 1 points 3 minutes ago

I use Cara, but that's because I am an artist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Lemmy and BlueSky (primarily Lemmy).

BlueSky’s mobile app is such a clone of twitter, transitioning is nearly seamless for the average user. I tried mastodon at first, but it felt pretty rocky and different (and I’m rather techy).

Between BlueSky and Voyager for Lemmy (I was an Apollo user on Reddit), my user experience hasn’t changed at all – except for the pleasant lack of bots and Nazis on both platforms.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Mastodon mostly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

It is. Both lemmy and Mastodon.

I cannot use Reddit or Twitter anymore.

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

It is, I don't go on Reddit anymore, it's insanely toxic. I've gotten all I could've gotten from there anyway. I only use Lemmy nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's my only social media. I have Voyager, and it's all I need. I never used FB or Twitter, or anything other than Reddit. And I'm done with that cesspool.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I made a new account recently, I used to be on Lemmy.world, but as I start to learned more about how the fediverse works, I wanted to get away from the giant main instance, help spread the users out.

Perhaps there is a way to transfer some account history? I didn't find any, so now I'm a Fediverse baby again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Been trying lemmy for a few months, and I have mixed feelings. Not going back to reddit even if hell freezes but if only I could strip the orange turd and the jumping dipshit (and all of us politics) from my feed I’d enjoy it way more. This is most certainly user error, so if anyone has any recommendations I would welcome them. Being on .world is the problem?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The instance could be a problem if you scroll through the 'local' feed often and thats where you see a lot of things you don't wish to see. A European or special interest instance might suit your context, (Portuguese?), better.

I spend more time on my 'local' (aussie zone) feed than 'subscribed' or 'all' and its definitely nicer, so a move like this can work.

But you could also optimise your own 'subscriber' feed as another option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Well thanks I’ll try your suggestions. I tried a portuguese instance but it was really slow going, maybe I should check again. Truth is I haven’t entirely figured how this works and to be truthful staying out of social media as whole has been refreshing. But I find the lack of users and memes from 10 years ago kinda charming, being a decades old reddit user, lemmy holds some of the niceness of reddit in the old years so I’ll stick around. Would mastodon be any better? Have no interest on xitter clones like bluesky

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

Lemmy has replaced reddit for me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

Yeah, pretty much. This and Discord really. Signal for P2P messaging.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 22 hours 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 22 hours 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] 8 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours 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] 11 points 23 hours 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] 2 points 19 hours ago

They banned me for giving my opinion on how child molesters should be punished and then permabanned me for doing it again when I got back. Funny thing is people say the exact same kind of shit about all kinds of other people and those comments are fine... weird how they only care to protect people who molest children.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours 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] 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same for me. Mostly using Lemmy and Mastodon since they’re filling two different roles. I also reluctantly still use Instagram since all my friends are on it.

Some people seem to see it as a negative that Mastodon with its linear feed doesn’t get them nearly as addicted as corporate social media but for me that’s a huge plus.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Same! The "lack of content" is really refreshing somehow.

Not having some proprietary algorithm spoon-feed you content is very nice. It literally only shows you exactly what you tell it to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day 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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours 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] 31 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Lemmy is the only one I'll log onto and the only one I have as an app.

Sometimes though, I'll miss a super specific community from the place spez ruined, and scroll through it in DuckDuckGo browser.

Anything that has an intransparent, engagement driving, ad laden algorithm that determines what you do and don't see is thoroughly unappealing to me. At least now that I'm a little more tech savvy and anti-corporate.

I guess I do technically have a Facebook account still because I don't remember the password of either that account or the associated email address. I used that for local flea market and food sharing groups up until maybe 6 years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

s/main/only/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day 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] 5 points 1 day ago

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day 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] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I went full Lemmy for a while but have to admit I'm reading reddit again, but without their dumb app. Just the web browser.

Looking through a few subreddits, see what's new for five minutes. I don't post anymore, don't have an account.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours 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] 2 points 20 hours ago

in this order: Discord, YouTube, Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours 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 23 hours ago

Youtube

There are so many really good animators on the platform

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Lemmy and Mastodon

I have deleted my accounts on Reddit, Twittet and Facebook.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day 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] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

lemmy is my first and only social account (unless you consider software forums or gitlab lol)

Matrix too but not using that in a social media way, only as a direct messenger.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

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

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