I've created my account on multiverse.soulism.net and am testing out federated websites. I've also created accounts on hear-me.social and gr8.pics But l'm working more on my piefed account, as this is giving me the sandbox platform to experiment away from mainstream social media.
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Lemmy/PieFed. That's it.
A few days ago I tried to use 4chan; around 2008~10 I used it semi-frequently. Well. Not even the least worst boards are worth the trouble nowadays, that place has become a zombie eating its own brain.
Reddit? No. I flat out refuse to use that cesspool. I don't use it even to look for info, screw it.
Beyond that I've been hanging out offline. Sometimes with friends, sometimes family.
Piefed, Mastodon and IRC.
Also trying to get into small web and neocities things and stuff.
BookWyrm, PieFed, WAFRN, Loops, Pixelfed, and NeoDB are the main socials where I actually post stuff/interact with people/etc, if that's what counts as hanging out?
On more of a small community level with casual conversations and such, it'd be mostly Signal, Fluxer, and Matrix.
How does fluxer work ??🤔🤔🤔
Any Pixelfed accounts you can recommend?
Well I'm not sure if I can really recommend the one I'm on. It's randomly gone down for lengthy periods more than once, the admins seem difficult to track down, and it's frequently out of date. Probably I should have migrated away, but I'm attached now 😝
If I were just starting out, I'd probably join this one:
https://anar.chi.st/
EDIT: oop I misread that as "instances" lol, sorry! I definitely follow lots of cool accounts, like @amazonrestore@gram.social
Nice rec! I'm Brazilian and vegan, so that's right up my alley
Hello from 🇮🇳. I really need time to turn into a full vegan, and finally evolve into a fruitarian.
Would you expand on those and why you like them? :)
Sure! I like reviewing the media I consume, so that's what my BookWyrm and NeoDB accounts are for. Also tracking stuff I haven't gotten to yet, etc. BookWyrm for books, NeoDB for literally everything else lol. I know I could just do that with a notes app or something, but I enjoy getting comments on my reviews/lists/etc and commenting on others. And finding new stuff I wouldn't have heard of fron other people.
WAFRN is my main shortform platform, mostly I use it for shitposting and shouting into the void, but It's also where I follow the accounts of all the people and projects I like to keep updated on. So I can fangirl at the creative team behind this or that audiodrama whenever a new episode comes out, for example. If I wanna shout into the void except even longer, I write long blog posts on WriteFreely instead. Those will usually be some craft or food project.
People here will already totally get PieFed I'm sure. I generally use it for forums dedicated to super niche topics, like Shavian English or breadmaking or w/e.
On Loops, I'm mostly posting short video memes. Someday I'd like to post educational/informational stuff too, but that's a lot of work...
I use PixelFed for literally everrrryyyyy type of posting that involves pictures. Memes, my garden, dishes I've made, stuff patrins make in my makerspace, etc. There's no rhyme or rhythm there. I've just naively assumed that, being specifically for pictures, it must be optimized to host them better than the other platforms? I'll even post to Lemmy communities from there instead, if pictures are involved.
Loops itself is a website, or its something like piefed and Mastodon ???🤔🤔🤔
My feed keeps disappearing there. I get a message saying ghosts have took over…and all my saves # are gone.
Lemmy, the structure of reddit style threads is incredibly useful, we need to build a shared wealth here. I am less interested in other forms of the fediverse until we nail this down but that is me.
Lemmy is too full of unkind people, actually ruthless.
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Piefed and Zulip. i don't comment a lot on Piefed, i mainly post. Jlai.lu is more active on Zulip, around 100 messages per day.
PieFed, Mastodon and Matrix.
Hello, mind if I ask, what do you do on Matrix? Just joined some group chats or do you actually know people there? I hear is like discord but know nobody there or how to join, curious.
I just use it for discussing fediverse development with other fediverse developers and instance admins. If it wasn't for that I probably wouldn't use it.
Doesn't discord want your mobile number ??🤔🤔🤔
Lemmy...PieFed
I mean...they're kinda the same thing from the standpoint of the community. Different intercompatible software packages.
Lemmy, but also Z2 and GameFAQs
Could you expand on the latter two and what you gain from them :)