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.

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.

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.

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

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 [email protected] 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 on Lemmy, ever since the APIpocalypse on Reddit.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mastodon for my twitumblr fix

Pretty much only Lemmy. I like and prefer the form of post which can be media or weblink with description or just text and text is unlimited, with threaded comments for discussions and comments, and thematic categorization (in communities).

Occasionally, I open https://loops.video/ or some other random platform. That’s nothin regular, though.

I have accounts on multiple instances, which is another layer of thematic separation. Community spread and content duplication is a downside, but also a technical consequence of the design.

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)

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.

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.