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. 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 was interested in PieFed and plan to give it a try at some point, but still have only used Lemmy. The other formats just aren’t as interesting to me. I don’t care about specific people, so Mastodon isn’t my bag. I care more about the conversations with friendly internet strangers. I don’t even have profile pictures enabled on Lemmy, I’d prefer everyone to just dissolve into a sea of unrecognition.
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.
It’s pretty easy to find content if you follow topics instead of focusing on specific accounts. For example, I follow #photography, and my feed is constantly full of posts from people all over the world sharing some really amazing pictures.
Instead of looking for people to follow, follow topics and then the people who post about that will come to you.
Sharkey is mastodon but with way more features.
idk, Mastodon has official apps for iOS and I think also more users
Aria is a client for Sharkey. Users doesn’t really matter since they interoperate. (Also: it supports the mastodon API.)
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.
No, I never liked Twitter, so I can’t even begin to bother about mastodon. Never heard of the other one.
I tried the Instagram clone for a few days (forgot the name), but it was so empty I left it again.
No. One social media is enough. Lemmy meets all my needs.
I’m more of a forum user than a microblogger, and google says sharkey is a kids haircut place
I think they meant Misskey
I thought that was a water gym trainer in Pokemon.
Sharkey is a misskey fork
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.
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 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.
I’ve tried a handful with Mastodon being my favorite and Lemmy a close second.
Never heard of Sharkey.
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.
Also the way it links with Lemmy feels weird
And the culture is just different. I’m not sure how to describe it, but I’ll try. It’s like…imagine the threadiverse portion of the fediverse as a library or a meeting room where people are having a quiet discussion. Mastodon accounts feel like they’re barging in all loud and boorish like “HEYYYYY! LOOK AT ME!!! HASHTAG HASHTAG HASHTAG”
I think there is a real divide on the internet between those who prefer longer format conversations around posting reposts, and just, micro logged, idk, I don’t want to be derogatory, but like, micro content?
I just throw it up as “I never got twitter”, but it does precisely 0 for me.
Idk, on lemmy back-and-forth conversations are usually just a few replies at most, not particularly long format, unless you count length by all of the separate comments/branches
Unlike discord for example
I use both and I agree. I have a different mindset on mastodon, there I care more about who is saying something than what they say. I have a small group of people I care about. On lemmy/piefed I care about what someone says but not who they are. It’s all about the topic.
When people started to move over from twitter, the culture changed significantly. People treat mastodon like twitter not knowing all the “restrictions” like char count are things that can be adjusted in admin.
The character limit is hardcoded in two places. They could, and should make it a setting, or just eliminate it.
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.
The other use for Twitter was for porn,
Brother I been watching porn since before twitter on way better websites
@url Friendica is where it’s at!
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.
