Asklemmy

I've been using mastodon for a few months even though not very actively, so when reddit shenanigans took a turn for the worse, I looked for an alternative and found out about kbin.

For me it was pretty straight forward. Following feeds from other instances is simple enough to do but the exact user experience varies depending on which service you're using.

Right now from kbin, I'm following my own mastodon account and a few communities from mastodon, a couple from lemmy and several from beehaw.

Personally, I'm hopeful. I think as more people figure things out and the culture of the system starts to spread more mainstream, it (the fediverse as a whole) will make a good platform for all sorts of social media needs from twitter-like microblogging to forum discussions.

I've heard of mastodon before but never really got into it since I wasn't a fan of the idea of twitter. I've always like the idea of reddit so I've signed up on lemmy and kbin and wait to see which one I prefer, so this will be my first time in the fediverse. So far I like the idea but currently not fully on board with it because of a few issues I have with its functionality, but that could just be due to the heavy load all the instances are dealing with.

I tried Mastodon before, but I never understood how to use Mastodon/Twitter. How am I supposed to find interesting posts? Should I follow... people? Who should I follow?

I remember telling myself:

Wah, the concept of Mastodon is insane! Makes me want to creat an account

Followed by:

Wait it's an alternative to Twitter, so it's still inferior to Reddit by how it works

Not my first. I also am on Mastodon over at https://infosec.exchange. I far prefer using the Fediverse versions of services, but without critical mass, you can't move away easily imo.

Yes definitely. I would have never heard about it if it wasn't for the bkackout.

I’ve been on Mastadon for a while, and have liked it for content that was less mainstream on Twitter. Gave a better way to get more frequent content from folks I wanted to follow over Reddit. Glad to see Lemmy finally gain momentum due to the Reddit drama.

This is my first time on any kind of federated network. It's pretty neat. I've known about federated projects for a while, but with Mastodon being the most popular one, and with me never having an interest in Twitter to begin with, I never bothered.

I'm the type to want to run it myself instead of joining a public instance, and I have to say, this isn't half bad at all. Wasn't hard to set up, and isn't as resource intensive as I was expecting.

I see a lot of potential in Lemmy, but I don't think it can really "go big" without some significant, but hopefully manageable, improvements to how it works. You can read me ramble about my thoughts here. I'm crossing my fingers that the exodus from Reddit brings some extra attention to Lemmy's GitHub.

I tried Mastodon first but I never really was much of a Twitter user. I find that format in general makes it difficult to find information about specific topics and there's not as much discussion. I'm liking Lemmy way more because I like the forum style format. It's certainly interesting watching all the "duplicate" communities across the instances though, I'm hoping it'll settle down a bit.

I’ve been using Matrix for some time now (have a dedicated synapse server set up so I can mess around with the bridges and stuff — still haven’t quite gotten the iMessage bridge working, but also haven’t put in a lot of time to it). As soon as I saw the whole thing with Reddit going down, I pretty much immediately stood up a Lemmy instance.

Safe to say, I’m pretty much sold on fediverse platforms.

I’ve dabbled on Mastodon but it’s not my style. Never was one for twitter. Still getting familiar with the whole Fediverse concept though so if there are any resources or communities anyone would like to recommend I’d be grateful

Yes

Yeah, this is my first. So far, it's been interesting. I don't understand the link between all of the other systems though (Mastodon, Kbin, etc).

My first fediverse app is mastodon

I tried mastodon, but I hated it. So far I'm liking this more.

Yes it is! Exciting to discover it.

I was never really interested in twitter or similar services, so I pass on Mastodon.

I've had a masto and pixelfed for ages. Was looking for an excuse to choose Lemmy over Reddit and, well, one came up.

Yes I didn't even know the fediverse was a thing

Nope.

I have used federated tools like identi.ca, pump.io and diaspora and I've also have a mastodon account, however I almost never posted to these and I rarely log in and follow everyone. I have accounts because I work closely with federation and want federated social media to succeed but I don't like the twitter format. I have friends which use them but it's just a flood of posts from friends and I love my friends, but they have interests and hobbies which I don't share and I have lots of interests and hobbies they don't share.

I've always enjoyed the interest specific communities much better, I generally don't care who is saying things, I care about what they say and if it's interesting or informative. I love the model of you go to places which are interesting and everyone upvotes and curates a collection of interesting links and posts and then discusses them. I am really glad we now have that for the fediverse. I knew lemmy existed, but never signed up for it until the reddit shenanigans started because, at the end of the day it's social and it needs users to be interesting, now reddit has given lemmy users and for that I'm grateful :)

I tried Mastodon for like 10 minutes and then remembered I don't like Twitter, so why should I be on Mastodon.

How would you use Mastodon to comment on Lemmy posts?

First Fediverse! Really liking the experience so far (feels kinda like Reddit-lite) and people are very welcoming. Only fear right now would be in the long run. From what I understand if your main instance shuts down you’d have to start from scratch and re-sign up/sub to all your communities?

I tried friendica years ago as an alternative to Facebook, back when Facebook was still for connecting with friends and family. But since none of my friends were interested in it, I quickly lost interest myself.

I checked out Mastodon when Musk bought Twitter, even though I never actively used Twitter. I don't use it as social media, I use it for news aggregation.

Lemmy is now the first Fediverse software I actively use and I really like it so far.

I have been on mastodon for a bit, but not really that active in contributing because I don't love the microblogging format. I do consume some pictures and news via it.

Lemmy is definitely more my speed. I've heard you can cross access lemmy from mastodon, but my understanding is the UI is not ideal, so I just also have a separate lemmy account and jerboa to go along with my Mastodon account and fedilab.

First time, liking the experience though the no central login is my biggest concern. What works for Reddit is that it’s really easy for a non-technical person to get in to it; Setup an account, login in, find, view, subscribe, post, and comment all in one place. With Lemmy/Fediverse there is a barrier with trying to explain it straight away e.g is it called Lemmy or Fediverse or Kbin etc

I get why it’s better, and I don’t know what a solution could be, but at the moment the simplicity of it in one place will keep Reddit a viable solution for a lot of people who would like it to “just work”. And it’s those people that helps build large communities.

As an example here’s a comment and reply from PrequelMemes

squabbles.io is a pretty good reddit alternative. I hear a lot of people suggesting lemmy and other federated options, but those are just confusing to me tbh. Squabbles works very similarly to reddit, so the transition should be painless.

And the reply

Thank you! I’m heading to squabbles.io right now, based upon your description of it!

I switched to Mastodon a while back, but Lemmy seemed really empty until recently.

Been on Mastodon for a while since the Twitter crap. Signed up to a Lemmy instance just now and so far so good!

One question for the more seasoned folk: from my Mastodon client, I can see some Lemmy communities if I search @<community>@<server>, but I can't see any posts. It just shows empty, but the count of posts says there are posts. Is this some sort of lag, or a setting of the Mastodon server I'm on?

Also are these communities associated with an instance, or do they exist across all instances? I'm assuming the former? And what does that mean if there are multiple communities with the same name on different servers?

I’ve created accounts on Mastodon, kbin, Lemmy and tildes, all within the past two days or so, and so far Lemmy’s my jimjam, with kbin a very close second.

I created a Mastodon account awhile back but wasn't active for long. I noticed a mastodon user commenting on a Lemmy post earlier today and honestly that confuses me.

I can wrap my head around there being various Lemmy instances that communicate with each other, but other platforms communicating? I haven't quite grasped that yet

Mastodon was my first, although this feels way more polished for sure. What I liked about Reddit is that you go there for the topics you care about, posted by people you don't care about. Mastodon and most other social media is people you care about, posting things you don't care about. I think I'll stick around here...

Edit: I have also used Matrix, but don't really have anyone to chat with on it... it was tough enough getting some friends and my family on Signal lol

My first time (on the Fediverse) was with Mastodon, but when I created my Lemmy account, I wasn't aware that I can comment on Lemmy posts with a Mastodon account.

In hindsight, however, I think keeping my Mastodon and Lemmy "experiences" (for the lack of a better term) is a good thing.

no, I have been on Akkoma (a Mastodon alternative) since October 2022. Definitely a bit more invested here though. Edit: if you'd like to follow me on Mastodon/Akkoma/microblogging fediverse, it's knova@dartboard.social - sign ups also welcome on dartboard.social.

I made a Mastodon account a while back after the Twitter nonsense and have used it somewhat, but not as much as say Twitter itself because most of the people I follow haven't joined. And therein lies one of the key problems with this or any Reddit alternative, if people don't join, it won't work. You need users and content both, you can't do it with just one or the other.

I also made a separate Lemmy account as I didn't realize I could use the same for all 3, but oh well. I kind of like having separate accounts for them as that makes more sense to me in my head.

No, I signed up for Mastodon long ago. Didn't get a ton of use out of it, but I posted there occasionally. I've had too many platforms bought out from under me and turned to crap, so the idea of the fetaverse appeals to me. Okay, the fetaverse was invented by Android voice dictation. I invite everyone to come up with their own ideas of what that Greek cheese-based universe might be like. 😆

But I've gotten far more into the Fediverse In the last two or three days then in the previous 59 years. I've set up Lemmy, kbin, and BookWyrm accounts. I know they can all theoretically connect, but I don't know how to do it yet.

using both Lemmy and mastodon for the first time today. interesting stuff, I'm liking it so far.