I came from reddit when the API thing shut down my mobile app of choice (RIP Baconreader). I tried lemmy and kbin right away, but couldn't really get into kbin. This is my only active social media account, unless you count an occasional steam review as social media. I have been using the jerboa app and it works nicely.

I use Lemmy and Mastodon.

What's not to like? Actual human responses and nice people, no ads, no ai, and no algorithm deciding what I see.

I have Piefed and Mastodon accounts. I prefer the "old reddit" style and the Piefed instance I'm on doesn't have it so I can't really get into it. I hate all these supposedly "modern" UIs yells at clouds.

Mastodon is different, it's fine, I guess. I check it out now and then. For many years I've tried to understand microblogging. I just fucking don't. I never understood Twitter, I've always found it obnoxious and inscrutable, even before the Nazi takeover. Mastodon seems like a less fleshed-out version of Twitter, so, again, I just don't get it. Lemmy? Upvote, downvote. Mastodon... favorite? bookmark? boost? Are replies threaded, I can't really tell. Does anybody see my posts at all? I'm following like a hundred hashtags and yet my feed is all from one news blogger I've never heard of. I just don't get it. So just every now and then I post a picture of a loaf of bread I baked or something and people seem to do things that cause my notifications to light up once or twice.

Only Lemmy. Switched to it from Reddit a while ago when they really started to show that their users were for sale. I'm also a big advocate for privacy. Never used Peertube much as there isn't much content. I use NewPipe

I'm on mastodon, lemmy, pixelfed, and loops. Also on Bluesky until the ads start.

Here to avoid ads and dark patterns. Fediverse is where interaction is done with users in mind instead of being the product. No nasty algorithms here.

I just use Lemmy.

I used to browse imgur but they allowed advertising for AfD which caused me to search for a more ethical feeling platform.

I've had my Lemmy account since 2 years but admittedly spent most of my time on 'the other site'. Until today, as I got banned for 3 days due to a single word. It was the push that I needed as I've now deleted my account and will use Lemmy exclusivly.

I only use Lemmy. I tried Mastodon but it was too similar (in its principle) to Twitter which I disliked.

I came on Lemmy because I was starting to get tired of looking at Reddit : always the same stories and content too much filitered. Then the API thing happened so it was over for me, since I only used third party clients.

I stayed because tech and discussions.

Just Lemmy. I never had Twitter so Mastodon probably wouldn't appeal, I had that problem with Bluesky.

More than anything Reddit just got annoying to use. I had no social media at all for a bit until I signed up for Lemmy, and I haven't decided if I like it yet. I do enjoy that there isn't a ton of content to endlessly scroll, feels healthier I guess.

I want Peertube to be good but the content just isn't there for me yet.

Lemmy -> KBIN -> MBIN -> Piefed (just in the browser; no app/frontend). I don't use mastadon (I don't care for microblogging period).

Peertube has issues with discovery from what I see people posting. On the creator side, there's no earning model and the whole process is more complicated for a smaller audience.

Been on mastodon for awhile. I decided to make a lemmy account because trying to view lemmy from mastodon is annoying.

Only lemmy, mastodon and twitter type stuff never made sense to me. I like that most fediverse platforms I've seen are being run by passionate people instead of just for a financial incentive.

I keep checking in on Pixelfed but the android app isn't user friendly. And I think a few days ago the servers were down.

Just lemmy.. but it is kind of a waste land.. not alot of commentary or sometimes i get random feed posts in language i dont understand lol.

Piefed, I like it a lot better than lemmy so far. That's it! I don't think that bluesky counts because everyone's just on the default server. I'd like to jump on pixelfed, but I can't find any servers for NSFW content.

pretty much just piefed et al. I think of it as the federation. I used to love the old newsgroups back in the day and eventually found slashdot when the millenium was new and later reddit but this is the closest I have been to newsgroups to me. the alt. rec. etc thing. they actually got ruined by spam. I think they would still be big if they had user filter config type of stuff.

Only on Lemmy, ever since the APIpocalypse on Reddit.

Lemmy. I have a piefed but it was mostly just showing the same stuff as Lemmy, but later. I did like it, though.

Think I registered Mastodon and either a loops or peertube account but never really used them

Came to lemmy when I couldn't stand reddit anymore

I started exploring Lemmy/Kbin during Reddit's API drama. I use Lemmy daily, mostly just lurking, but occasional participation. I probably participate here more than I did on Reddit. I post to & scroll through Pixelfed occasionally, definitely more than I ever used Instagram. My Mastodon account is essentially abandoned. I never had a Twitter account, so not exactly surprising. Oh, I also briefly tried Loops, never used TikTok. I'm not big on videos, so I haven't tried Peertube.

I'm tired of billionaires and big tech and want to support alternatives.

Pretty much only Lemmy. I use it because I believe centralized social media and the companies that run it are killing the internet, and want to put energy into something that might replace it instead of creating free content for Reddit as I did for years.

I've used Mastodon since soon after Twitter was sold. Then when Reddit started killing third party client access I came here too.

I still use Reddit since it's just got the user base, but I'm trying. I run !gamedev@lemmy.world for the fun of it. (Just don't judge me by the least few weeks of upkeep; life has been life-ing. I try to find a few worthwhile news stories to link a day, ideally practical, but sometimes just interesting industry news.)

Only lemmy. And lurking Reddit at work because stupid memes are entertaining enough. But I never upvote anything there. (I know just the browsing is engagement but idc enough)

Why I use Lemmy:
I can subscribe to the selfhosting/(F)OSS mindset and like the idea of it.

Mastodon for my twitumblr fix

I just recently joined Lemmy; never had a redditt account. Have been using Mastodon for quite a few years now; only ever dabbled in twitter. I like that the fedi stuff seems more organic and less manipulated by algorithms, although, that also makes it easy to miss stuff as well. Still getting a feel for Lemmy and discovering interesting communities. My ultimate social platform was Google Reader (still miss my sharebros/gals. My primary social media after the demise of GR was the comment section, BBS, of BoingBoing -- we had a mass departure after the publisher did some petty bans (started our own discourse instance)

only lemmy dont have the energy to switch, besides the last one went down last year.

So, I jumped ship here to the old lemm(dot)ee instance because of the r€ddit API fiasco a few years back. I haven't looked back since. That led me to who knows how much longer down the line trying Mastodon. Still there, but I mostly just retoot things from the people I follow, who retooted another post... and follow The Internet Archive.

Lemmy, Mastadon, and a bunch of old school forum sites. I tried piefed and the UI isn't quite the right fit that lemmy is for me.

I can't be bothered to care, or have the time to keep up with, whoever's weekly petty political nuance about who runs what instance and why they're each a faschio-socialist whatever. If I wanted social media run by 8th graders, I would be on Truth Social.

I use lemmy primarily. I’ll use mastodon for the occasional watch party, but otherwise I’m inactive there. I’m currently exploring both loops and Pixelfed, but not sure how I feel about either yet. I’ve been meaning to look into peertube, bookwyrm, and neodb.

We were informed about Mastodon from folks on Twitter back in 2019 that were looking to migrate. (I forget what Twitter was up to at the time, but part of me wants to say some form of censorship was going on) Never looked back on that end as Twitter's vibes were always rancid, well before the buyout, and the Masto instance we were on felt so much more like an actual community.

As for Lemmy, kinda similar story but we never had a Reddit. Never felt it necessary to interact with that community whereas this one feels more real, joined a couple years ago now I think?

We're also looking at WAFRN to replace or at least bridge from Bluesky, we kinda begrudgingly joined that site only after learning that Dorsey was out of the picture but it's just been nothing but the admins shooting themselves in the collective foot for as long as we've been on Bsky.

I started like dozens of others when the api thing, but still visit reddit in read-only incognito mode because of the content. Not just the niche stuff, even mainstream things like soccer, F1 or chess, there is no content on lemmy. Anything that's not politics, ai or Linux, basically. Even for tech, I usually find better content of linkedin than lemmy. Yes, not only ceos and recruiters post on linkedin if you follow the right people you can learn a bunch. But shitposting is fun, so I'm also here.

Not using any other fediverse services, it's the same content in a different format.

I use Lemmy, Mastodon, and Peertube.

I use Lemmy via Jerboa, Mastodon via Pachli (I used to use Moshidon but the dev stopped updating the app), Pixelfed via Pixelix, and Loops. All to combat big technofascist platforms, ever since I saw the video explaining how dickMusk stole the 2024 election.

I'd use Peertube more if all the Youtubers I followed started posting there in addition to posting on YouTube. For now, I use Wizestream on my phone/tablet and SmartTube on my Onn 4k TV box for YouTube.

I tried Mastodon and just couldn't really find much I'm interested in on there.

I use the fediverse because reddit really pissed me off by taking away functional app options for a second fucking time

Mainly use lemmy with voyager. Don't know or care enough to join any others. I'm only here for the shitposting and vague sense of community/socialisation.

I used to use reddit for that, but the bots and getting banned for wrongthink really pushed me off. The non-stop-politicking happens here too, but I try and stay away, and at least its more aligned with my stances here when I do see it so it doesn't piss me off as much.

Still use reddit for NSFW communities, but once that account is banned I wont be back.

Just Lemmy and Discuit. Dont go on Reddit anymore.

I use Mastodon (rarely), Lemmy/PieFed (mainly) and PeerTube (occasionally) because I re-upload the content of another small creator. Some of the channels I follow I mentioned in this older comment, but the advice is relevant here as well. Ask creators you follow to mirror to PeerTube and you’ll have a reason to start using it more!

For YouTubers especially it can be as easy as setting up automatic synchronisation once and forgetting about it.

Edit: or be the one uploading for them if you have permission and the time for it like me ;)

Been on Mastodon for like four years. Ironically, I joined when during a major Twitter exodus, but I’d already left Twitter like two years before. I came here because I started to get tired of my content being used to make money for Mark Zuckerberg and I also noticed that “the algorithm” was primed to make me both addicted and angry all the time.

Came to Lemmy because I find it has more memes and humor than Mastodon and scratches the reddit itch (I left that platform about two years ago). It’s also a pretty good place to see news from around the world.

I also use Pixelfed, but rarely. I like to look at it when I have downtime but don’t want to be inundated with political posts and commentary. It tends to just be pretty pictures of flowers and mosses.

I love the Fediverse for being influencer-free social media. I really want to start a PeerTube instance for my own content (I’m a priest at a small Episcopal parish and I use streaming for our Christian education stuff and I find a huge disconnect with using a predatory and exploitative platform like YouTube for any kind of actual Christian material).

I also use Lemmy, Mastodon, Loops, and on occasion I use Pixelfed.

Lemmy is enough for me! Nowhere is perfect but there's a good balance here, and there are more uhh politically prosocial folks here compared to Reddit so I can't complain too much. 👍

I haven't even checked the other fediverse offers, but I assume they're also better (at least "vibe" wise) than the more popular and problematic alternatives.

Ive hosted and contributed to a couple of federated platforms. Just little pull requests to help us all along.

The current list that I use is:

• Mastodon
• Peertube
• Piefed
• GotoSocial (kinda sorta same as mastodon)
• And just today catodon.rocks

Ive also hosted:

• pixelfed
• lemmy
• freindica
• funkwhale

And a number I forgot about. snac looked interesting too.

Of all of them Gotosocial has been the most stable for single user instance, piefed fuels my addition, peertube got my dog lots of subscriptions, and mastodon remains a stable.

Im having an absolutely fantastic time.

I’ve an alt on .world that I just don’t use much anymore.

I just use lemmy, and a little matrix.

Mastodon/twitter likes never really caught my attention, too much noise to signal.

Matrix doesn't completely click, I don't get this half message board half chatroom business. It's too slow to be a chatroom but too fast to be a board you read a few times a day.

I'm trying out Piefed. Lemmy looks like relatively good software, but I don't like the political views of the developers behind Lemmy. Their whole shtick seems to be "non-western countries good, western countries bad".

Of course, western countries have done many bad things. But I think plenty of non-western countries have also done bad things. I just don't buy into a narrative which always tries to paint western countries as "the bad guys" and non-western countries as "the good guys".