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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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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 23 minutes ago)

Lemmy is now. Followed by reddit, which I visit less and less. And no it doesn't feel like dual booting, there seem to be so many of the same people here, with the same issues and anger. But I prefer the lemmy UI and absense of ads. The lack of a personal karma total might be keeping at least some of them away.

[–] emmie@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

Lemmy is the only app I use because I want to. Others I gave to use for work etc.

[–] teagrrl@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Mastodon and lemmy, can't choose

[–] Suppoze@beehaw.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Lemmy is my primary I lurk nowadays, I only visit reddit through google sometimes. I also use Discord with most of my friend groups, I need to use Facebook Messenger occasionally because of some friends and family. For entertainment, Youtube and Twitch only (I do have premium for yt though... I know it's not nice)

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DerpyT@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

Friendica is also nice and looks like 2008ish Twitter but not so full, sadly. For reference if anyone interested:

[–] crash_thepose@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago

Mastodon mostly.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 13 hours ago

It is. Both lemmy and Mastodon.

I cannot use Reddit or Twitter anymore.

[–] Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online 5 points 13 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.

[–] unyons@feddit.org 6 points 14 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.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] unyons@feddit.org 2 points 6 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.

[–] portuga@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (4 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?

[–] VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago

The voyager client has filters you could use to try and filter things out.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Like the others have said, use Voyager to filter out the instances and communities you don't want to see.

[–] portuga@lemmy.world 1 points 20 minutes ago

Ive been using descovery for a while. It works mostly great. I have to learn a bit better how this works as instances and filters go, but I think I got it figured out for the better part

I love the helpful feeling you get from people responses here, not those snarky one liners replies that add nothing (but I’ve done plenty of those on reddit, don’t want to bring that vibe here, although I might have failed already)

I’ll be better, I promise

[–] reallyzen@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The Connect app (Android) allows filters by both keywords and URLs; not only do I not see anything with something in the title that I don't want to hear about, but also nothing from certain websites I don't either.

Did someone say "echochamber vides intensifies"? Yeah yeah, my eyeballs, my choice.

[–] portuga@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

I’m using discovery in ios phone mostly. It works nice once you learn how (I’m starting to sound like my old man)

But thanks for the help, you’re in my christmas list now

[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 2 points 6 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.

[–] portuga@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 1 points 8 minutes ago

No idea on Mastodon myself. I've heard a couple interviews of the developer, seems like a cool guy. But thats about all i can say.

I's playing round with this instance and community finder the other night, works really well. Might be useful to find a more active community that you'll enjoy.

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 8 points 18 hours ago

Lemmy has replaced reddit for me.

[–] Tyfud@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

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

[–] socialpankakemix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago (2 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

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] ThisGuyGetsIt@feddit.uk 12 points 1 day 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.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 23 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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[–] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day 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.

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 49 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.

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day 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.

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 32 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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[–] sinewyshadow@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day 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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[–] Twoafros@lemmy.world 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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[–] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day 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.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 day ago

s/main/only/

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.

[–] krysel@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

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

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

[–] 1984 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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[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 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

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