Who went "full fedi" yet?
Who went "full fedi" yet?
Bit of a simple question: Some people on lemmy are still posting stuff from youtube, xitter and the like.
Have you gone full fediverse yet or how far are you?
- traded reddit for lemmy/kbin
- xitter for mastodon
- discord for matrix
- youtube for peertube
Obviously I also mean other alternatives. Which ones do you use and why?
Disclaimer: this question is me asking genuinely but also trying to make it fun by arbitrary ranking/escalating it. Not trying to say one is better than the others.
I dumped Twitter in the first wave after Elon took over and found a new home on Mastodon. Deleted my Reddit accounts during the API crisis (I still visit but no longer contribute) and spend some time on Lemmy (haven’t yet found the community to be as engaging). Sadly there isn’t a viable alternative for YouTube yet.
- Lemmy 95%. I use Reddit for tech troubleshooting help sometimes but that's basically it, and I removed my account.
- Never used Twitter. I have a Mastodon account but rarely use it. It's just not a content format that I'm very interested in.
- Sadly I use Discord still. Matrix is fine, but nearly all my friends use Discord for gaming and related stuff, so I can't get rid of it without losing basically all my gaming friends and servers.
- Still use YT all the time, but only through apps like NewPipe, FreeTube, and GrayJay. I haven't signed into YT for well over a year now.
Slowly but surely I'm getting rid of the corpo's grip on my life.
I was solely Reddit before the API debacle, now I'm solely Lemmy. There's not a lot of content here, but here I am.
I tried Mastodon after the Twitter buyout. It has all the downsides of Twitter (short posts, people constantly axe grinding, reply guys) without the upsides (content creators that I want to interact with, humour accounts). I dropped Mastodon after a couple of months.
I dont think ill ever stop youtube. It has an extremely toxic side, the side where content creators are doing it for a job. I don't go there. I watch, and post videos that are purely out of a love of sharing. That is the blessed side of youtube. And Ill berelentless in blocking ads and paying for adblockers if nessecary.
I never used extwitter.
I only use instagram to share my photography with my family, and to chat with my younger cousins.
Never really got into discord.
And Reddit I still sometimes lurk, but only on PC, and rarely comment anymore.
Now lemmy via Jerboa is my best friend.
Ive also had so much more social interaction offline in the last 12 months its been a complete turnaround for me.
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I jumped ship after the 3rd party app fiasco.
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I never used it, so I had no reason to make a switch. I also did make a mastodon account once, but I don't know what happened to it and I can't find it.
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I only ever use it for updates for a few games. Also, I can't ditch it because the club I'm in at my community college, the club discord server is how we communicate and there's probably no way I could convince the club to switch since the next year, various members might have gotten their degree or left the club for various reasons.
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If my favorite channels switched over to something like Peertube or even some place like Odysee, then I'd definitely switch. Most of the people I watch would never leave and I just don't feel like putting in the effort to find new people to watch since I've been watching some of my favorites for over a decade.
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Came to lemmy with the first exodus of redditors.
Do have mastodon but never use it just like I used to have Twitter and never use it. I might just not understand how people use those services as after I set them up they are just a cluttered feeling version of my rss feeds.
Pixelfed is neat but I haven't used Instagram since it first came out so I don't know how they compare.
I've never liked, subscribed or commented that I know of to a YouTube video but I have learned to fix lots of things. Have not tried peertube.
More people should use pixelfed.
Simply put, I prefer the freedom of access to more information.
Longer explanation.
- Still have a reddit around to access the "NSFW" labelled posts (all are not porn) and quarantined subreddits (like r/Russia).
- Have Discord and WhatsApp so I do not get cut off society. Yes, cutting yourself off is a speedrun to becoming deranged and conspiratorial, as it prevents challenging your mindset against society and prevents keeping a basic level of tab on current trends.
- YouTube is used through NewPipe, Invidious and ytdlp.
- Have an Amazon account for the rare occasion to buy stuff otherwise hard to get IRL.
No Google, no Apple, no Facebook/Instagram, no Snapchat, no Huawei/Samsung/OEM accounts, none of the other services. I practice what I preach as a serious privacy advocate, and keep things practical.
Lemmy definitely replaced reddit as my daily driver. The only time I ever visit reddit anymore is for obscure troubleshooting information that is usually old.
I never really got into twitter. The format just doesn't interest me very much, like others have mentioned. Mastodon definitely seems cool though. I created an account just because.
I've been on discord, but I could probably easily switch that to matrix because I don't have that many friends...
I hope that something like peertube will take off, but I'm not really on that one. For now, I've resigned to using alternative frontends (newpipe, freetube, etc.). I'm trying to give odysee a fair chance, but the content just isn't quite there yet for me.
The most extreme things that I want to switch out is google, and microsoft. I'm basically going to have to swap operating systems on my phone, as well as my laptop. That pales in comparison to my vehicle though. Lately the idea has been floating around in my head to downgrade my vehicle to something that was before android auto/ apple carplay. Vehicle manufactures have made it impossible to opt out of anything. I hate this so much.
- Yep
- Wasn't on Twitter really (I've had various accounts over the years but they never stuck), couldn't see the point of it. Got two active Mastodon accounts though and I'm all over it like a rash.
- Nah Discord is still perfectly fine for the way I use it
- Uploading my stuff to both. But PT really need to acknowledge the major discovery problems before it can get anywhere, and at the moment they don't even seem to accept that their instance search tool (ie the first thing most people will need) is broken, so I don't have high hopes.
- 65-75%. I go in Reddit only when I seek for information that cannot be found conveniently otherwise.
- 0%. I don't have an account in neither. Sometimes I click a link that takes me to Twitter.
- 0%. Visited Matrix's website but I haven't though much more about it.
- 0% so far. Haven't thought much about it yet.
xitter for mastodon
This was step 1 for me, and it happened at the first rumbling of Musk taking over, though I don't use Mastodon.
traded reddit for lemmy/kbin
This was step 2. I was using reddit and lemmy side by side, though mostly ignoring reddit, until the API change came through. I deleted my reddit account then and haven't looked back.
discord for matrix
I did this a few months ago.
youtube for peertube
I don't really use either...
I'm in Lemmy and Mastodon. I left Twitter for good about a week after the Tesla guy acquired it and made his first flex on the app. I don't even remember what it was, but I didn't want to be a part of his toy, and all he has done is prove me right over and over. I left Reddit within a couple days of the announcement that mobile app developers were getting screwed, and I'd essentially have to switch to the native app to use a full-featured Reddit. It seemed like a crappy thing to do since developers like LJ Dawson (Sync), the Relay person, etc are who really built Reddit since Reddit was slow to get into apps.
I use Discord but only because it's what's required for a gaming guild, and my dynasty fantasy baseball league uses it too. I have no interest in using it outside of that.
I've never really used Youtube, so I haven't checked out Peertube. Likewise, I never really used Insta, so I haven't looked that closely at Pixelfed. I'm considering Pixelfed since I'm a hobby photographer, but I share my pics on my personal website (I don't care who sees them tbh, it's fun for me) and on my FB. I can't seem to shed FB with so many people I know using that to stay in touch and schedule events, and the Marketplace is leagues better than Craigslist.
Dropped reddit, stick to lemmy.
Still on Twitter, primarily doomscrolling Ukraine news
No reason to leave discord for me. I use it for a few groups of friends and also hobby forum chat.
Stopped using YouTube directly, switched to using freetube. Haven't checked out peertube but hear the content is lacking
I don't use the latter three, and I'm 90% of the way here from reddit. Don't have a Fed alternative to my RSS aggregator, so that's staying for now.
What really intrigues me is replacing my current music library cloud service with Funkwhale, but I haven't had time to explore that possibility yet.
Switching my photo library hosting to a FOSS option is a longer-term goal.
- I moved to Lemmy during the Reddit API debacle, and it’s been great. I’ve even started interacting with posts which I almost never did on Reddit.
- I moved from xitter to Mastodon, but I don’t really use either anymore; it’s just not a form of social media that brings me joy.
- I asked several of my friends to try out Matrix, and they tolerate it and message me there instead of Discord. I do a lot of video calls with my girlfriend through Matrix (via Element) and that’s been perfectly reliable. Matrix has actually worked better than Discord for me, since I use Linux (Arch btw) and my webcam frequently has green flashes in Discord but not on Matrix. I had that issue on Fedora as well so I think it’s a Discord for Linux problem.
- YouTube is the last great hurdle….
A bit meta, but Is there a unified article anyone can point me to that discusses all the different fediverse video options (IIRC peertube is not the only one) with a overview of how their usage differs from youtube?
I've found peertube to be interesting ever since it was new, but have had very little luck finding anything I wanted on it when I've tried using it.
I've done all except leaving discord, but that's because I'm the owner of some servers. and I don't want to abandon friends.
that and I'm not entirely sure how matrix actually works. I am a newb with a fairly smooth brain.
but I only use fediverse now. lemmy, mastodon and I've swapped to peertube for my TV and newpipe for my mobile app.
I only enter to reddit to check information I can't find in other places or because of communities there. I mostly enter for KDE reports and Stellaris lol
I have a Twitter account because my friend are there and they've abandoned Facebook almost completely, but I enter one in a month or so. I've been using Mastodon daily because I found a lot of people that also have my interests and hobbies, even in my language.
I only enter to Discord for casual gaming with friends, like one or two times a month.
And I've been trying to use PeerTube more, but a lot of content creators I like are still on YouTube, and PeerTube doesn't have an official app yet. I'm currently using Piped and NewPipe for watching videos (I use the YT app only when I want to support some creators).
- I purged my Reddit account 4(?) months ago, and I'd been off it for a few months before that.
- I've been using Mastodon, and the gotosocial, for about a year and a half. I never really used Twitter, though, and since the Great Reddit Exodus, I use Lemmy more. I've never found microblogging to have much value.
- Why would anyone go from Matrix to Dicord? Did you swap the order here?
- I haven't stopped using YouTube. There's no equivalent content on Peertube. Yet
PS - If someone wants to get into watching PeerTube, TILVids.com is a great start.
- mostly post on Lemmy now. So check reddit occasionally as there are a few things there I have need/interest in. I rarely post there now. It's mostly because of their utterly unusable official app - if they allowed third party apps (and my choice of third party app) I'd have been willing to pay to use (I'm not looking for a free ride).
- I'm split between Mastodon, BlueSky, Threads and occasional Twitter. There are people I still interact with on each. I am not a fan of Meta, but unfortunately they seem to be winning. Mastodon is very, very clunky though it has good points. I am seeing an increasing number of big name posters expressing frustration with the platform as there is no good mechanism to ward off spam and abuse at scale - this makes sense (though I certainly am not such a person).
- What's Matrix? I use Discord only because I have to as it's the only place for support/community for certain tools I use. I hate it. I wish orgs would use old school web page support forae like they used to. Vastly better...
- YT premium. Gotta follow the content. I don't mind paying to rid myself of ad interruption, and what's more, it makes it functional for my kids (sans ads). Besides, YouTube Music is pretty good (not nearly as good as Google Play Music was, though).
I think as things scale people may start to appreciate just how hard it is to moderate content to a useful degree. Not too much. Not too little. (I'm not suggesting that any of the main sites has really gotten it right, but when it's gone (at scale) things go bad fast (RIP Twitter).
I hope for better interoperability between platform (fedi) but it's likely a pipe dream.
1: I'm running a kbin instance so. Yeah, think I've covered that.
2: Never had a twitter account. I used to check news from some companies that announce stuff there. But you can't even do that without an account now, so I don't visit them aside from if people send me direct links to stuff.
3: Yes and no. I'm using both, mainly because I don't control where everyone else goes.
4: I did (well still do) have a peertube instance up, I've just not moved it to the new server yet and not decided if I will. The problem is, storage. For threadiverse (kbin in my case) the space used is easily containable, the media goes onto S3 and I can surf the best combination of speed/price for that and the DB actually grows at a pretty controllable rate. But peertube takes a LOT of space quickly. I suspect it's a bit harder to have the kind of freedom to post long videos, also livestreaming. I tried 1440p and the server (which is decently specced) couldn't keep up. So, this might be a failed experiment for me I think.I've migrated to almost all foss services. I'm only sharing from non free services if i can't avoid. I'm using this username in each and every services
1,2,3 yes
Its hard to avoid youtube as most of my favourite youtubers wont migrate or even they don't know about foss platforms. They want their ad revenue. Its hard to convience them and hard for them to moveMy Fediverse accounts:
Mastodon not Twitter Lemmy not Reddit Friendica not Facebook Peertube not Youtube: Funkwhale not spotify: Bookwyrm not Goodreads Writefreely not blogger:
Lichess not chess.com: Matrix not discord: https://matrix.to/#/@covert_czar:matrix.org
I'm also on pixelfed (not instagram)Sure i do use proprietory softwares and nonfree services. I do consider them as useful as foss softwares. I just explored most of the fedi universe doesn't mean i hate non-free services.
I'm more active on mastodon, pixelfed, lemmy, matrix and lichesshttps://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/4205915 And finally A meme i made about fediverse😂 Edit: deleted all personal links
- I'll follow a search result to reddit, but I don't actively browse it.
- Never used either. I created a Mastodon account somewhere once upon a time but never used it.
- My friends use Discord, and aren't interested in moving. So I use it.
- I don't post or comment on YouTube, but I do follow a handful of people. Not signed in, just using rss feeds.
Shit, man, if I went full fedi, I'd have even less to contribute than I already do. We've gotta have some external sources of news and knowledge.
I have traded reddit for lemmy and just closed my Meta and Xitter accounts and I'm already feeling a disconnect from society. I've been subscribing to new youtube channels and setting up RSS feeds to make up for the lack of connection to current events.
Instead of going fedi I'm going minimal.
Reddit -> Lemmy, with the caveat that time spent on here is minimal, to be reviewed at a later date.
xitter -> nothing, nitter.net if I want to read a xeet linked by another resource. Ultimately for me micro blogging social media is a time suck with little return.
discord -> still on it for a few different reasons, not sure if I'll set up matrix just to do a bridge, privacy and minimalism are clashing here.
YouTube -> nothing, invidious if I want to watch yt content. Short or low quality video content is another time suck, try and keep video streaming to a minimum for environmental and mental health reasons.
Netflix and others -> the high seas (it is decentralised)
Yes for all except youtube. I use frontends there. LBRY when feasible and there's not a lot of content creators on PeerTube at least we got "The Linux Experiment". PeerTube needs a monetization model imo (benefiting content creators and instance hosters). I wouldn't mind paying a low fee for watching content for instance.
- I already had issues with Reddit long before the API drama, due to spam, etc. However when the API drama dropped, I almost 100% switched to kbin, save for the rare occasion I found some useful info on Reddit, with the occasional tumbling into some other interesting threads.
- I post more often to Mastodon, slowly leaving Twitter too, I just need to convince my fellow authors to do so, to give me even less reason to use it. I however decided to limit posting updates of my game engine to Twitter, and instead use the main account now dedicated for it ( @PixelPerfectEngine )
- I haven't heard of Matrix, I'll look up it. I don't have any major gripes with Discord so far.
- Peertube is fine and dandy, however it's even less adapted than other Fediverse platforms, all while YouTube would be mostly fine IF IT DIDN'T ACTIVELY TRIED TO SABOTAGE MY FIREFOX! I EVEN PAY FOR PREMIUM AND MEMBERSHIPS!
I don't really use any other save for following a bunch of Misskey accounts with my Mastodon. However, I was thinking on creating a federated game launcher/gaming-focused social network similar to Steam. Some parts of it would use ActivityPub (especially public stuff like achievements), others XMPP or something similar. Issues are the question of a copy protection system, and an anti-cheat system. Banning pirated copies of the game from official networks is probably easy even with open source tools, and likely not so controversial. Anything more than that would require more complicated setups, such as a lot of proprietary stuff, not to mention are very controversial, especially with gamers. Anti-cheat systems are also a though issue, likely being the responsibility of the developer, and also there' a lot of controversy with them with kernel-level anti-cheat systems.
Yes, yes, don't use, always have avoided anyway. I also touch grass more often, which is nice
What? How far am I what?
i haven't used Reddit since the big migration, and quit Xitter way before then. i still use YouTube a lot, but use NewPipe instead of any app or webpage. can't stand Discord either way, but use it for a couple MMO guilds i'm in. it sucks that the shitposting scene on Masto isn't as big as Xitter, or maybe i'm not looking in the right places. (i know jorts.horse has some good posts on their local, but i don't wanna move from my instance.)
@haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com
Youtube: I don't spend a lot of time watching videos, but when I do it's still usually on Youtube, as I can't find what I like anywhere else. I don't expect to be able to completely ditch this one unless the cost of hosting videos goes down a lot.Facebook: It's been a few months since I used this one. The only thing I use it for is to send someone a message if I don't have any contact information aside from their name, which is something the fediverse can't currently replicate. It's slowly becoming less relevant as fewer and fewer people in my cohort are active on Facebook.
Twitter: I used this one for less than a year in 2021, and deleted my account in 2022.
Instagram: I made an account on this one a few years ago but never made posts with it, and evetually deleted my account. I don't use #Pixelfed , because I can post pictures from #Sharkey so I don't see a reason to make another account.
Reddit: I deleted my account recently. I haven't made a #Lemmy or #KBin account though obviously I can still interact with them from #Sharkey.
Discord: This is the proprietary social network I use the most. There are a lot of communities that don't seem to have alternatives elsewhere. I am hopeful for the future of #Matrix , but it still feels like a beta, and I can't recommend it to people without technical skills.
Tiktok: I haven't used this in a few years, but I haven't deleted my account either.
Pinterest: I haven't used this in a few years, but I haven't deleted my account either. I'm also not sure what the fediverse alternative is.Zoom: I have to use this for work. I'm hopeful matrix video calls will eventually be a viable replacement.
Fandom: I have stopped making constructive edits, but I kept my account in case I can use it to vandalize wikis or help them leave Fandom. There is no fediverse alternative I'm aware of: just a bunch of self-hosted wikis that can't interact with each other.
I haven't logged into my Reddit account since June.
I never used Twitter, so that wasn't an issue for me.
I just stopped using Discord, if I need to message someone on the internet I suggest Matrix but I almost never use it.
I mostly use Odysee and Nebula to watch videos, if I need to use YouTube I use alternative front-ends like Piped or LibreTube. I tried PeerTube, but there's just not enough content that I would want to watch.
@haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com
- never used reddit, but i like my kbin alt acc very much
- xitter never really was my thing, neither masto or pleroma > but when xitter migration sped up last year, i thought that finally something is happening on the fedi, so i signed up at a calckey instance (and later, i got many more accs on other fedi platforms)
- discord? no > matrix? no
- yt: i use alternative frontends, but certainly not peertube