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.

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’m more of a forum user than a microblogger, and google says sharkey is a kids haircut place

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.

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.

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.

Yea I use Mastodon, it’s great.

The use case of Reddit/lemmy is entirely different from Twitter/x/mastodon. In Reddit/lemmy, there’s a topic of interest, and people chime in. In Twitter/etc, there’s people of interest, and they discuss topics.

I don’t care who is talking, I just want to talk about stuff. So the twitter style has zero interest for me.

No.
I specifically wanted a Reddit-like thing.

Mastodon is more a Twitter-replacement, isn’t it?

And never heard of Sharkey before…

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.

I tried out Bookwyrm in early summer this year. It is very underdeveloped and the app is just a web viewer, but I still love the idea and track my books with it.

Then, after 3 years of Lemmy/Piefed and always telling “microblogging isn’t for me”, I noticed a couple of people/organizations I like are active on mastodon - for example from the privacy scene in Germany, some Genealogy stuff and also all the governmental organizations. Is use it now every couple of days similar to my RSS news feed and really like it so far.

No. Twitter always sucked, even before Musk. Instagram was always stupid, even before Zuck. Facebook was a stupid copy of MySpace, which was stupid to begin with. Reddit was a good format, though made worse repeatedly by being run by Reddit. Hence, Lemmy.

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 maintain a mastodon and gotosocial instances. My favorite is peertube and piefed. Still looking for a blog adjacent or something that can work like RSS for all things I want to subscribe to.

My dog has a pixelfed that is more popular than any thing that I have made in the past.

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.