I have two small pictures blog in Mastodon, but none of them get that many attention as they would get here, sooo…
Two good ones I also recomend if you wanna start as a newbie: Friendica and Sharkey. I might change my picture blogs to there.
The concept of twitter was never appealing to me, so I naturally won’t like platforms that ape it. I joined Reddit at the time because the Minecraft sub seemed like it was getting more attention from Mojang vs the forums. I stayed because the entire IT industry is on Reddit. I left because of the API nonsense in 2023.
Honestly the two big problems I see with the fediverse are the political stridency of the userbase and the friction of picking an instance when you don’t know what that even means. The first problem, as I’ve said elsewhere, is somewhat a result of fedi users self selecting (again I include myself in here) and might resolve on its own if mainstream platforms enshittify to the point that even the normies can’t take it anymore and we figure out a way to onboard people better. These problems are probably why I don’t try other fedi platforms.
But I’m rambling again. I haven’t slept well in days.
tried mastodon did not understand how it works lemmy felt familiar so I stayed
I started with mastodon but i can never get into that kind of social media. Everyone was super nice and i tried for a bit but it felt now like looking into people’s lives rather than whatever this is. I prefer this.
Not really, I always strongly disliked Twitter and the idea of something that’s basically like Twitter never appealed to me. Might try that stuff eventually though.
I am on bluesky, and I have never understood why people tweet every 10 minutes about anything and everything they ponder or find.
I get doing it every day perhaps, even thrice a day but every 10 minutes?
No judgement, just curious why are people so keen on revealing aspects of their life so openly.
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.
I use Lemmy and Mastadon daily. Two different things. Love them both.
Nope
I never used websites like Twitter and Facebook either. Sure I have looked into stuff like Mastodon, Friendica, Misskey, etc. But you’re never going to get me to actually use them, they’re not the kind of social media I’m interested in.
When it comes to the threadiverse, I actually use Mbin, not Lemmy. I did try both Lemmy and Piefed, but Mbin fits my tastes as an Old Reddit user best out of the three.
I tried Mastodon, multiple times, and it always has this icky political feel to it. Sort of like a left wing version of Twitter, which I also hate. Bluesky is even worse in this regard IME. Haven’t tried Sharkey. I’ll have a look at some of the alternatives in this thread.
I know I’ve said this multiple times but a fanatic is someone who won’t change their mind and won’t change the subject, and there are a lot of fanatics here. To me, there is inherent value in attempting to create a neutral space where people who otherwise may be on opposite sides of the political spectrum can talk about shared interests.
To drag out my tired example, say Alice is a gun nut and Bob wants to seize the means of production. But both of them like vintage computers. They talk on the vintage computers community about their mutual love of vintage computers, and they realize that the “other side” is also a human being with hobbies and interests and thoughts and feelings. Alice may not put on the hammer and sickle and bob might not go out and buy an AR-15, but they both realize that the other isn’t a monster. Surely there’s value in that.
I have a mastodon account. Be lucky if I fired it up once a week. That’s a lot more than I ever used twatter/x. That I opened maybe 5 times when it first started. The super short form stuff just not my thing.
Mostly just to look at mastodon followed hashtags of photography. When I first got it I straight away put filters on stuff I wasn’t interested in before figuring out how to look at only followed hashtags.
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.
No.
I specifically wanted a Reddit-like thing.Mastodon is more a Twitter-replacement, isn’t it?
And never heard of Sharkey before…
No, because they were alternates to social media whose formats I had no interest in before they went to shit as they all seemed to be accounts yelling into the cloud, not somewhere that conversations could happen.
So just lemmy and piefed so far.
To me, Bluesky is like that and some ppl on mastodon are like that, but my corner of it is very conversational.
The bigger the accounts get, the less conversational they tend to want to be.
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.
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.
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.
Literally my exact thought process.
