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Here (lemmy), bluesky, and somewhat regrettably, discord. I'll still lurk on big platforms for the purpose of information gathering but my accounts are mostly gone. I don't see as much fanart as I used to, so I'm wondering if I should start checking pixiv more often again. But even that's been enshittified with AI and other stuff (I don't remember the details tbh), so I don't even know at this point.

It's weird when I go to the big platforms. There are big numbers on posts but it feels like fewer and fewer people are talking and a lot of what I do see is just people having the same conversations over and over again and like there are just fewer.....people....I guess? It's weird.

Lemmy and YouTube

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.

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.

Piefed for my post-reddit stuff. I prefer the longer forum-like experience here for a lot of things.

BlueSky for other stuff. All the rabbit people there are great and I can’t live without cute bunny pictures. I usually stick to specific feeds and ignore most of the rest.

PieFed, Mastodon and Matrix.

Local forums Greek speaking, Lemmy, Mastodon, letterboxd for movies, but also hobbies forum like sat-universe and linuxsat-support.

My Signal group chats have basically become what facebook used to be. People I actually care about sharing memes and information and life updates.

Piefed/lemmy have scratched my reddit itch.

If piefed be kinda slow I'll skim mastodon a bit. Inspirational skeletor helps me make it through the day.

piefed

I just switched over to piefed! When reddit announced their API restrictions a few years ago, I migrated to lemmy.word. It was okay, I noticed that I related more to content from other instances. I changed jobs and my new job blocked lemmy.word, so I decided it was time to migrate again.

But typically I am somewhere between this space, bluesky (for sports), some sort of programming forum, or watching youtube videogame content

knockout.chat is a nice old-style forum, if you prefer that kind of UI/UX. It's not a PHPBB throwback, it has some modern considerations, but it's still a forum. Has some rules that prevent it turning into a cesspit, unlike many other popular forums I could list. Very inclusive and friendly!

Mostly Lemmy and Bluesky and occasionally Tildes and Mastodon.

Been meaning to check out PixelFed and Loops.

Post reddit, most of my internet time is youtube. I barely used youtube until like '22. I like watching longform videos about various topics from actual professionals and experts, not lame layman commentary from wannabe influencers that seems to make up the bulk of popular crap on there. That and the occasional old school forum for some of my hobbies that are still active, though the userbase there is usually people in their 60s.

That's pretty much it. I don't do discord or any of that stuff. It's weird and boring to me because so much of the chats are just inane small talk.

I still miss the communities on reddit I used to be involved with 5-10 years ago, but they all died, or some weird mod took over and banned anyone who was remotely authentic because they wanted the sub to be disneyfied. It was really great to be part of a near-peer group of people my own age and swap stories and crack jokes. I feel like the modern internet is so absurdly serious and money-focused.

Even IRL all my old social spaces are long gone, and/or the population shifted from people who were chill to people who are obsessed with their brand image, who are a huge drag to interact with. It's been so long since I met anyone new who was just doing their thing and enjoying life, and not obsessively trying to broadcast an image of themselves or sell you something.

I guess that's why I like youtube now, the videos I watch are mostly people just doing their thing, rather than trying to promote themselves or sell products. Most of the channels I watch are pretty small and probably won't ever grow as they are too academic for a broader audience.

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.

Lemmy, but also Z2 and GameFAQs

Mostly Lemmy, but Reddit still has the good local/niche content, so I'm there too.

If I'm not on Lemmy or YouTube I'm probably watching porn. I don't use the internet much for anything else.

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.

Discord on Mondays and Wednesdays (a few friends and I have set aside those days for playing together, or sometimes just hanging out via VoIP while we each attend to our own stuff), and Lemmy most other days.

Lemmy...PieFed

I mean...they're kinda the same thing from the standpoint of the community. Different intercompatible software packages.

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.

Piefed, Mastodon and IRC.

Also trying to get into small web and neocities things and stuff.

https://kagi.com/smallweb/

https://neocities.org/

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

Lobsters...???

I'll eat those fuckers.

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