cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/57576884

There’s so many ways to interact with the Fediverse. The most popular, by far, seems to be Mastodon, but Lemmy, Misskey, and Pixelfed are also relatively popular. Kbin used to be popular, but it has apparently been abandoned, and is mostly dead at this point.

I recently learned that Mbin is a thing, checked it out, and it looked really cool! Has anyone used it? How different is it from Lemmy? I hear they have better integration with Mastodon.

What Fediverse services do you actually, regularly use?

For me, it’s mostly Lemmy, though I do hop on Mastodon every now and then.

  • @Oberyn@lemmy.world
    4•1 month ago

    Used to be kbin.social user , now just use lemmy (no mbin instance suits me , not joining instance named “moist cat sweat” euuughh) . Lemmy.world bcus it’s the biggest therefour more staying power

    • gon [he]OPEnglish
      2•1 month ago

      I’m terribly sorry, but moist cat sweat is so funny I can’t even begin to understand why you wouldn’t want to join that.

    • gon [he]OPEnglish
      3•1 month ago

      What do you think of Pixelfed? I hear it’s kinda like Instagram, but how is the interop with the rest of the Fediverse?

  • irotsoma
    2•1 month ago

    Primarily Lemmy and Mastodon to replace Reddit and Facebook respectively. Those are the only social media platforms I used extensively, really, anyway. And I’m hosting a Mobilizon instance to replace the lost event organizing of Facebook that moved to chat rooms on Signal for now.

    • gon [he]OPEnglish
      1•1 month ago

      …Mastodon to replace Facebook? Why not Friendica? Usually, Mastodon is framed more as a sort of Twitter.

      • irotsoma
        2•1 month ago

        I never used Twitter really because Facebook filled that need and more. I might eventually go to Friendica, or at least have considered it. Basically, at the time, I was looking for two kinds of communication/conversation. One topic based and one user based. The user based side has two parts, friends and content producers. Since i don’t have many friends on the fediverse, that side isn’t as easy to fulfill. Lemmy covers the topic based, and Mastodon covers the user based for content producers well. If I get more friends converted, I’d probably be more interested in Friendica.

        • gon [he]OPEnglish
          1•1 month ago

          Hmm, I see, makes sense. Whatever works for you!

  • @randombullet@programming.dev
    5•1 month ago

    https://pixelfed.de/randombullet

    I finally have a peaceful place to throw my favorite photos into without being buried under the algorithm.

    I’ve gotten more organic followers here in a few weeks than I ever had on Instagram for 4 years.

    Love the community and so many people cheering you on. I’m doing my part by following as many people back and also liking their stuff.

  • @Bloomcole@lemmy.ml
    1•1 month ago

    I’ve been in the Fediverse for a few weeks max and don’t even know what’s what.
    Already got banned from Mastodon and Lemm.ee. Good riddance, might as well be on Reddit with the awful right wing attitude.
    Unfortunately also Lemmygrad and Hexbear which I love.

    • gon [he]OPEnglish
      2•1 month ago

      I checked, and you weren’t really banned from Lemm.ee, the mod comment says you can come back in 2 weeks. Still, getting rocked by Lemm.ee means you did something wrong for sure… I can’t see what you said, but “Russian propaganda” shows up more than once.

      Complaining about right-wing attitude while getting banned from Lemmygrad and Hexbear… HEXBEAR?! How did you even do that… For denouncing age-ism, you say… I wonder what you said.

      What Mastodon instance did you get banned from, just out of curiosity?

      What I can say is that you really need to tone it down or find an instance that has a no-ban policy. Of course, that sort of instance gets de-federated FAST… You seem to be going around causing mayhem. No offense.

      • @Bloomcole@lemmy.ml
        3•1 month ago

        Yes, not supporting NATO will get you viciously attacked.
        Russian propaganda, Vlad, go suck Pootins dick, etc… All that is allowed but you can’t return the favor so you get banned.
        Same for Mastodon, and I don’t want to come back to either of those.
        I can find the same garbage and narrative like that on Reddit, not what I’m looking for.

        **hexbear ** it was a post about “the boomers” and how they are everything what’s wrong with the world and evil Trumpers. I expected better from someone on Hexbear.
        I tried to explain they are not a monolith, their generation have achieved a lot in the 60’s and did their share, sometimes at great cost.
        Also it’s a divide and conquer tactic.
        If blaming a certain age group is not ageism (a standard no no in most instances rules) someone should explain it to me. Anyway, OP tried to get out of it by saying “boomer is more of a mindset” which is nonsense.
        But mostly he got very defensive with the same result as in the non-left instances.

        Lemmygrad I had a disagreement about how I personally don’t see religion and communism as compatible. Not appreciated by my Muslim adversary.
        And there we I went again.

        These 2 subs I really like and visit and would go back to if it could be fixed. I don’t even know how, like I didn’t know about the 2 week lemm.ee ban. Suddenly you are logged out, can’t log in and that was it. Didn’t see an option to protest a ban anywhere.

        What Mastodon instance did you get banned from, just out of curiosity? Couldn’t tell you, it was the very first Fediverse thing I tried and knew even less than now where I was.

        Yes I need to tone it down IF I per sé want to stay.
        I admit I get full on aggressive when attacked and I dislike having to do this (or the results) but having to self censor out of fear doesn’t sit right. There is enough censorship as it is. Opinions on politics can easily clash and I admit I can be very hard, confrontational and not diplomatic. It is fair for others to also not hold back, I don’t mind. Grown ups should be able to hold heated civil discussions. But they should do it without vulgar insults or baseless slander.
        I think that is a reasonable request.
        Thanks.

        • gon [he]OPEnglish
          1•1 month ago

          they should do it without vulgar insults or baseless slander.

          Fair enough.

          Look, that’s how Lemmy works, because “Lemmy” doesn’t realy exist, it’s just software. There’s no need for a ban appeal or anything, because if you got banned, they don’t want you, ever. Some instances do make their admin’s contacts public, such as Lemmygrad’s, so you could try messaging them on Matrix or something… Though I would not keep my hopes up. You could always make a new account, I think. To check details, by the way, you just go to the bottom of the page and click Modlog and then input the username you want to check. Here is a direct link to checking @Bloomcole@lemm.ee’s modlog.

          You can do this for any user on any instance, but certain instances don’t federate modlogs well with each other, so it’s best to check each instance’s modlog for instance-specific information.

          Each instance has its culture and expectations. There’s instances out there for you, I’m sure! Best of luck! And sorry you had such… Negative… first experiences.

          • @Bloomcole@lemmy.ml
            2•1 month ago

            After looking around it seems the .ml or .world is not really tolerant towards Lemmygrad of which they defederated.
            The same attitude with Hexbear.

            Example from196@lemmy.blahaj.zone:

            Here are the things that get you banned: -saying anything remotely iffy with a lemmygrad or hexbear account

            Thanks again for the info.