Lemmy, the structure of reddit style threads is incredibly useful, we need to build a shared wealth here. I am less interested in other forms of the fediverse until we nail this down but that is me.
BookWyrm, PieFed, WAFRN, Loops, Pixelfed, and NeoDB are the main socials where I actually post stuff/interact with people/etc, if that's what counts as hanging out?
On more of a small community level with casual conversations and such, it'd be mostly Signal, Fluxer, and Matrix.
Sure! I like reviewing the media I consume, so that's what my BookWyrm and NeoDB accounts are for. Also tracking stuff I haven't gotten to yet, etc. BookWyrm for books, NeoDB for literally everything else lol. I know I could just do that with a notes app or something, but I enjoy getting comments on my reviews/lists/etc and commenting on others. And finding new stuff I wouldn't have heard of fron other people.
WAFRN is my main shortform platform, mostly I use it for shitposting and shouting into the void, but It's also where I follow the accounts of all the people and projects I like to keep updated on. So I can fangirl at the creative team behind this or that audiodrama whenever a new episode comes out, for example. If I wanna shout into the void except even longer, I write long blog posts on WriteFreely instead. Those will usually be some craft or food project.
People here will already totally get PieFed I'm sure. I generally use it for forums dedicated to super niche topics, like Shavian English or breadmaking or w/e.
On Loops, I'm mostly posting short video memes. Someday I'd like to post educational/informational stuff too, but that's a lot of work...
I use PixelFed for literally everrrryyyyy type of posting that involves pictures. Memes, my garden, dishes I've made, stuff patrins make in my makerspace, etc. There's no rhyme or rhythm there. I've just naively assumed that, being specifically for pictures, it must be optimized to host them better than the other platforms? I'll even post to Lemmy communities from there instead, if pictures are involved.
If PieFed is reddit and Mastodon is Twitter, then Loops is TikTok. Short form looping videos, except they federate so people on the other platforms can see them too
Well I'm not sure if I can really recommend the one I'm on. It's randomly gone down for lengthy periods more than once, the admins seem difficult to track down, and it's frequently out of date. Probably I should have migrated away, but I'm attached now 😝
It's very nearly a Discord clone, which makes sense gicen the creator had contributed code to Discord in the past. The main instance is overpopulated though, it runs terribly compared to the self-hosted ones. That said, I'd go Matrix over Fluxer if my friends would let me. It's not federated or even E2EE.
Hello, mind if I ask, what do you do on Matrix? Just joined some group chats or do you actually know people there? I hear is like discord but know nobody there or how to join, curious.
I just use it for discussing fediverse development with other fediverse developers and instance admins. If it wasn't for that I probably wouldn't use it.
Piefed for my post-reddit stuff. I prefer the longer forum-like experience here for a lot of things.
BlueSky for other stuff. All the rabbit people there are great and I can’t live without cute bunny pictures. I usually stick to specific feeds and ignore most of the rest.
knockout.chat is a nice old-style forum, if you prefer that kind of UI/UX. It's not a PHPBB throwback, it has some modern considerations, but it's still a forum. Has some rules that prevent it turning into a cesspit, unlike many other popular forums I could list. Very inclusive and friendly!
Post reddit, most of my internet time is youtube. I barely used youtube until like '22. I like watching longform videos about various topics from actual professionals and experts, not lame layman commentary from wannabe influencers that seems to make up the bulk of popular crap on there. That and the occasional old school forum for some of my hobbies that are still active, though the userbase there is usually people in their 60s.
That's pretty much it. I don't do discord or any of that stuff. It's weird and boring to me because so much of the chats are just inane small talk.
I still miss the communities on reddit I used to be involved with 5-10 years ago, but they all died, or some weird mod took over and banned anyone who was remotely authentic because they wanted the sub to be disneyfied. It was really great to be part of a near-peer group of people my own age and swap stories and crack jokes. I feel like the modern internet is so absurdly serious and money-focused.
Even IRL all my old social spaces are long gone, and/or the population shifted from people who were chill to people who are obsessed with their brand image, who are a huge drag to interact with. It's been so long since I met anyone new who was just doing their thing and enjoying life, and not obsessively trying to broadcast an image of themselves or sell you something.
I guess that's why I like youtube now, the videos I watch are mostly people just doing their thing, rather than trying to promote themselves or sell products. Most of the channels I watch are pretty small and probably won't ever grow as they are too academic for a broader audience.
I've created my account on multiverse.soulism.net and am testing out federated websites. I've also created accounts on hear-me.social and gr8.pics But l'm working more on my piefed account, as this is giving me the sandbox platform to experiment away from mainstream social media.
I just switched over to piefed! When reddit announced their API restrictions a few years ago, I migrated to lemmy.word. It was okay, I noticed that I related more to content from other instances. I changed jobs and my new job blocked lemmy.word, so I decided it was time to migrate again.
But typically I am somewhere between this space, bluesky (for sports), some sort of programming forum, or watching youtube videogame content
Discord on Mondays and Wednesdays (a few friends and I have set aside those days for playing together, or sometimes just hanging out via VoIP while we each attend to our own stuff), and Lemmy most other days.
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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 20 pts · 159d
Lemmy, the structure of reddit style threads is incredibly useful, we need to build a shared wealth here. I am less interested in other forms of the fediverse until we nail this down but that is me.
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 158d
7.9k posts, nice work! Got me beat
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 158d
Hey, I see the effort you put in to give this place life, it is huge!
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 158d
We are both great it is true haha
Blaze@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 159d
Thank you for your contributions here!
Vaelix_Prism@multiverse.soulism.net · 3 pts · 159d
Lemmy is too full of unkind people, actually ruthless.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 159d
Doesn't seem to have anything to do with the comment you replied to.
Vaelix_Prism@multiverse.soulism.net · 1 pts · 159d
I just expressed my opinion. Do we always need to stick to relevance ??
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 159d
Only if you want humans to care about your opinion.
Vaelix_Prism@multiverse.soulism.net · 1 pts · 158d
So, the definition of which word has changed : relevance or humans ??🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 158d
Dude, trolling has gotta be the most boring hobby in the history of the universe. Can you not find anything more entertaining to do?
You've written like 35 comments today alone. Half of them whining about how badly you're treated here. None of this is normal.
Vaelix_Prism@multiverse.soulism.net · 0 pts · 158d
So..... You're inspecting my troll logbook ??😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
MxRemy@piefed.social · 13 pts · 159d
BookWyrm, PieFed, WAFRN, Loops, Pixelfed, and NeoDB are the main socials where I actually post stuff/interact with people/etc, if that's what counts as hanging out?
On more of a small community level with casual conversations and such, it'd be mostly Signal, Fluxer, and Matrix.
comrademiao@piefed.social · 3 pts · 159d
Would you expand on those and why you like them? :)
MxRemy@piefed.social · 5 pts · 159d
Sure! I like reviewing the media I consume, so that's what my BookWyrm and NeoDB accounts are for. Also tracking stuff I haven't gotten to yet, etc. BookWyrm for books, NeoDB for literally everything else lol. I know I could just do that with a notes app or something, but I enjoy getting comments on my reviews/lists/etc and commenting on others. And finding new stuff I wouldn't have heard of fron other people.
WAFRN is my main shortform platform, mostly I use it for shitposting and shouting into the void, but It's also where I follow the accounts of all the people and projects I like to keep updated on. So I can fangirl at the creative team behind this or that audiodrama whenever a new episode comes out, for example. If I wanna shout into the void except even longer, I write long blog posts on WriteFreely instead. Those will usually be some craft or food project.
People here will already totally get PieFed I'm sure. I generally use it for forums dedicated to super niche topics, like Shavian English or breadmaking or w/e.
On Loops, I'm mostly posting short video memes. Someday I'd like to post educational/informational stuff too, but that's a lot of work...
I use PixelFed for literally everrrryyyyy type of posting that involves pictures. Memes, my garden, dishes I've made, stuff patrins make in my makerspace, etc. There's no rhyme or rhythm there. I've just naively assumed that, being specifically for pictures, it must be optimized to host them better than the other platforms? I'll even post to Lemmy communities from there instead, if pictures are involved.
Vaelix_Prism@multiverse.soulism.net · 2 pts · 159d
Loops itself is a website, or its something like piefed and Mastodon ???🤔🤔🤔
MxRemy@piefed.social · 1 pts · 159d
If PieFed is reddit and Mastodon is Twitter, then Loops is TikTok. Short form looping videos, except they federate so people on the other platforms can see them too
Cherry@piefed.social · 2 pts · 159d
My feed keeps disappearing there. I get a message saying ghosts have took over…and all my saves # are gone.
MxRemy@piefed.social · 1 pts · 159d
Which one?
Cherry@piefed.social · 2 pts · 159d
Pixelfed
MxRemy@piefed.social · 1 pts · 159d
Oh geez! Well I guess I can't be to mad at what my instance (Pxlmo) is doing, because at least its not doing that! What instance are you on?
inari@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 159d
Any Pixelfed accounts you can recommend?
MxRemy@piefed.social · 2 pts · 159d
Well I'm not sure if I can really recommend the one I'm on. It's randomly gone down for lengthy periods more than once, the admins seem difficult to track down, and it's frequently out of date. Probably I should have migrated away, but I'm attached now 😝
If I were just starting out, I'd probably join this one:
https://anar.chi.st/
EDIT: oop I misread that as "instances" lol, sorry! I definitely follow lots of cool accounts, like @amazonrestore@gram.social
inari@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 159d
Nice rec! I'm Brazilian and vegan, so that's right up my alley
Vaelix_Prism@multiverse.soulism.net · 2 pts · 159d
Hello from 🇮🇳. I really need time to turn into a full vegan, and finally evolve into a fruitarian.
Vaelix_Prism@multiverse.soulism.net · 1 pts · 159d
How does fluxer work ??🤔🤔🤔
MxRemy@piefed.social · 1 pts · 159d
It's very nearly a Discord clone, which makes sense gicen the creator had contributed code to Discord in the past. The main instance is overpopulated though, it runs terribly compared to the self-hosted ones. That said, I'd go Matrix over Fluxer if my friends would let me. It's not federated or even E2EE.
rimu@piefed.social · 7 pts · 159d
PieFed, Mastodon and Matrix.
Mothra@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 159d
Hello, mind if I ask, what do you do on Matrix? Just joined some group chats or do you actually know people there? I hear is like discord but know nobody there or how to join, curious.
rimu@piefed.social · 3 pts · 159d
I just use it for discussing fediverse development with other fediverse developers and instance admins. If it wasn't for that I probably wouldn't use it.
Vaelix_Prism@multiverse.soulism.net · -2 pts · 159d
Doesn't discord want your mobile number ??🤔🤔🤔
dkppunk@piefed.social · 4 pts · 158d
Piefed for my post-reddit stuff. I prefer the longer forum-like experience here for a lot of things.
BlueSky for other stuff. All the rabbit people there are great and I can’t live without cute bunny pictures. I usually stick to specific feeds and ignore most of the rest.
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 158d
That's what I like too, it feels like the old days of message boards where you really were a community. You get to know people here
dkppunk@piefed.social · 3 pts · 158d
Agreed! You are one of the folks I see pop up often 💚
I like the smaller spaces. I feel like there are way better discussions here. I do wish there was a bigger bunny space though.
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 159d
Lemmy, but also Z2 and GameFAQs
comrademiao@piefed.social · 2 pts · 159d
Could you expand on the latter two and what you gain from them :)
58008@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 159d
knockout.chat is a nice old-style forum, if you prefer that kind of UI/UX. It's not a PHPBB throwback, it has some modern considerations, but it's still a forum. Has some rules that prevent it turning into a cesspit, unlike many other popular forums I could list. Very inclusive and friendly!
kirakira666@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 158d
WagnasT@piefed.world · 3 pts · 159d
My Signal group chats have basically become what facebook used to be. People I actually care about sharing memes and information and life updates.
Piefed/lemmy have scratched my reddit itch.
If piefed be kinda slow I'll skim mastodon a bit. Inspirational skeletor helps me make it through the day.
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 159d
tal@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 159d
I mean...they're kinda the same thing from the standpoint of the community. Different intercompatible software packages.
AskewLord@piefed.social · 2 pts · 159d
Post reddit, most of my internet time is youtube. I barely used youtube until like '22. I like watching longform videos about various topics from actual professionals and experts, not lame layman commentary from wannabe influencers that seems to make up the bulk of popular crap on there. That and the occasional old school forum for some of my hobbies that are still active, though the userbase there is usually people in their 60s.
That's pretty much it. I don't do discord or any of that stuff. It's weird and boring to me because so much of the chats are just inane small talk.
I still miss the communities on reddit I used to be involved with 5-10 years ago, but they all died, or some weird mod took over and banned anyone who was remotely authentic because they wanted the sub to be disneyfied. It was really great to be part of a near-peer group of people my own age and swap stories and crack jokes. I feel like the modern internet is so absurdly serious and money-focused.
Even IRL all my old social spaces are long gone, and/or the population shifted from people who were chill to people who are obsessed with their brand image, who are a huge drag to interact with. It's been so long since I met anyone new who was just doing their thing and enjoying life, and not obsessively trying to broadcast an image of themselves or sell you something.
I guess that's why I like youtube now, the videos I watch are mostly people just doing their thing, rather than trying to promote themselves or sell products. Most of the channels I watch are pretty small and probably won't ever grow as they are too academic for a broader audience.
welfare_wizard@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 158d
I feel the same. What kind of channels do you watch?
lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 158d
Mostly Lemmy and Bluesky and occasionally Tildes and Mastodon.
Been meaning to check out PixelFed and Loops.
Snoopy@piefed.social · 2 pts · 159d
Piefed and Zulip. i don't comment a lot on Piefed, i mainly post. Jlai.lu is more active on Zulip, around 100 messages per day.
Vaelix_Prism@multiverse.soulism.net · 2 pts · 159d
I've created my account on multiverse.soulism.net and am testing out federated websites. I've also created accounts on hear-me.social and gr8.pics But l'm working more on my piefed account, as this is giving me the sandbox platform to experiment away from mainstream social media.
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 158d
Local forums Greek speaking, Lemmy, Mastodon, letterboxd for movies, but also hobbies forum like sat-universe and linuxsat-support.
mrNarwall@piefed.social · 2 pts · 158d
I just switched over to piefed! When reddit announced their API restrictions a few years ago, I migrated to lemmy.word. It was okay, I noticed that I related more to content from other instances. I changed jobs and my new job blocked lemmy.word, so I decided it was time to migrate again.
But typically I am somewhere between this space, bluesky (for sports), some sort of programming forum, or watching youtube videogame content
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 158d
piefed
FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 159d
ebaum's world
sbv@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 158d
Mostly Lemmy, but Reddit still has the good local/niche content, so I'm there too.
Chivera@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 158d
Lemmy and YouTube
Iconoclast@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 159d
If I'm not on Lemmy or YouTube I'm probably watching porn. I don't use the internet much for anything else.
Evotech@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 158d
What kind of porn
Iconoclast@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 158d
The kind of that I don't want my mom to find out about.
Chivera@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 158d
Incest?
Jela@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 159d
Lemmy, and the Libby reading app 📚
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 158d
Lobsters...???
I'll eat those fuckers.
HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social · 1 pts · 159d
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 158d
Discord on Mondays and Wednesdays (a few friends and I have set aside those days for playing together, or sometimes just hanging out via VoIP while we each attend to our own stuff), and Lemmy most other days.