What other parts of the fediverse are you using?

Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 87 points – 6 months ago

Besides Lemmy which I love a lot, I'm also enjoying a microblog platform called Catodon, which is much less basic than Mastodon and has a very nice interface. Pixelfed is also fantastic if you like photography rather than just being Instagram influencer nonsense. Where else are you hanging out? What have you liked and not liked?

Mastodon, Bookwyrm, Mbin, and I'm also on a test instance of Takahē (Mastodon compatible microblogging platform) which I quite like for the multiple personalities feature.

Mastodon.

I want to love Peertube but there isn't enough content, and what content there is almost never actually loads for me.

Currently just Lemmy and Mastodon for me.

If I do get back into art, I might self host something like Pixelfed or an ATProto version of it to have a gallery on my site.

Kbin, mastodon, bookwyrm. Was on miskey but idk what happened to the server I was on.

Firefish? It died. Try Catodon if you want a clone!

I use mastodon occassionaly but i really feel we need something more universal like a server capable of hosting lemmy ans mastodon symultaniously, would be cool af if there was a server capable of having one username for all services. I use peertube through newpipe then make comments through lemmy but i find lwmmy is slow to update peertube content honestly wish newpipe let me commwnt using my lemmy account.

Mastodon for social-ish media. Peertube for as much video as I can find (its hard, but a couple of creators have mirrored/moved). I want bookwyrm to take off.

PieFed - another lemmy-like platform. Its codebase is deliberately simple, so it's something I've also been able to contribute to (which is nice).

I just read about that one, I'll come join. More fediverse the better.

I've tried a few listed here.

I was also trying Friendica for a bit but I can't get into it. Mainly because it was hard for me to find content. I may try again now that I'm more used to the Fediverse and how things work.

I also tried Friendica but I don't seem to really get it.

Friendica is really versatile. To get started, I'd suggest you watch @anubis2814a's videos (on the tagged PeerTube account or on YouTube) in order to get used to all the functions on the platform. There's also a Wiki on their website (and likely on the node you may choose) or you can post any question on !helpers

Thank you. I'd like to understand better.

Lemmy, Sharkey, and following channels on Peertube

On Mastodon, too. Some of my more niche interests are better represented there since Mastodon has more active users than Lemmy.

!ibis@lemmy.ml is a new federated wiki by nutomic, one of the lemmy devs

Pretty much just Mastodon. That's pretty much it.

Just wanted to say that Catodon is a much nicer microblog interface and you can look at Mastodon from it!

I'll try it, not that I have any problems with Mastodon's default interface anyway. If it's good enough for me, I'll use it.

I just find Mastodon rather basic. But may a thousand fediverse sites bloom.

Having that is never a bad idea.

I'm on Matrix but I don't really use it. I'm also not sure how it's federated. Pretty sure I couldn't see Lemmy posts on it or vice versa 🤷🏻‍♂️

Matrix isn't using Activitypub, so it isn't compatible with the rest of the fediverse. However, with Matrix anybody can host a chat server and all servers interact with each other. So just like the rest of the fediverse, Matrix is fully decentralized, free, and open source.

diaspora still exists.

I wish for a micro.blog version in php to start my blog in the fediverse, something I can host for cheap on any website hosting provider but I guess this won't happen.

for people who might suggest activitypub addon for wordpress. I think work on that hasn't yet finished. and wordpress is way too bloated for a personal blog anyways.

At least one instance on each of them. Cue obligatory yolo remark.

It's pretty great I think.

I got back on Lemmy for the first time in 6 months and it's way more active. I'll be using it more. I tried Mastodon a while ago, but it didn't stick. I'll try again.

I find Mastodon very basic myself.

Yeah, I prefer Twitter. I have a suspicion that Mastodon will only get a chance at relevance if something at Twitter pushes people off the platform. Reddit's 3rd party API ordeal seems to have boosted Lemmy quite a bit, so it shouldn't take too much, but maybe I'm too optimistic.

I use another Matodon like platform called Catodon. The interface is MUCH nicer.