The use case of Reddit/lemmy is entirely different from Twitter/x/mastodon. In Reddit/lemmy, there’s a topic of interest, and people chime in. In Twitter/etc, there’s people of interest, and they discuss topics.
I don’t care who is talking, I just want to talk about stuff. So the twitter style has zero interest for me.
I was interested in PieFed and plan to give it a try at some point, but still have only used Lemmy. The other formats just aren’t as interesting to me. I don’t care about specific people, so Mastodon isn’t my bag. I care more about the conversations with friendly internet strangers. I don’t even have profile pictures enabled on Lemmy, I’d prefer everyone to just dissolve into a sea of unrecognition.
No, I never liked Twitter, so I can’t even begin to bother about mastodon. Never heard of the other one.
I tried the Instagram clone for a few days (forgot the name), but it was so empty I left it again.
No. One social media is enough. Lemmy meets all my needs.
No. Twitter always sucked, even before Musk. Instagram was always stupid, even before Zuck. Facebook was a stupid copy of MySpace, which was stupid to begin with. Reddit was a good format, though made worse repeatedly by being run by Reddit. Hence, Lemmy.
I’ve tried a handful with Mastodon being my favorite and Lemmy a close second.
Never heard of Sharkey.
I tried Element for Matrix, but I prefer forums to chatrooms.
Perhaps it’s because I haven’t subscribed to a lot of communities here (Lemmy), but I find Mastodon (and Sharkey by extension due to their federation with Mastodon instances) more active than Lemmy.
I’ve got an account in programming.dev (Lemmy), fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and fedia.social (IceShrimp ≈ Sharkey, loosely). I’ve also got a very inactive Reddit account.
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I’m more of a forum user than a microblogger, and google says sharkey is a kids haircut place
I think they meant Misskey
Sharkey is a misskey fork
I thought that was a water gym trainer in Pokemon.
I don’t care about the social media as much as I care about keeping the app I already know how to use lol. I used boost for reddit for years, then I changed to boost for lemmy.
Mastodon, not my cup of tea (to be fair, neither was Twitter). I just don’t find micro-blogging to be very engaging and my mind categorizes it as “brain rot”.
Sharkey? Haven’t heard of that one until I just googled it, but one look at their mascot and…no. Just… no.
Have been looking at joining Piefed instance, though.
Same here. I don’t mind microblogging, but I find it hard to find good content to follow on Mastodon. Also not a fan of my feed being filled with replies. Not having the thread right there for context is distracting and annoying.
No idea what sharkey is. Don’t really care to find out.
It’s pretty easy to find content if you follow topics instead of focusing on specific accounts. For example, I follow #photography, and my feed is constantly full of posts from people all over the world sharing some really amazing pictures.
Instead of looking for people to follow, follow topics and then the people who post about that will come to you.
Sharkey is mastodon but with way more features.
idk, Mastodon has official apps for iOS and I think also more users
Aria is a client for Sharkey. Users doesn’t really matter since they interoperate. (Also: it supports the mastodon API.)
the thing you have to remember is that the internet is built off the backs of furries and trans women.
that’s not to say that all tech workers are one of those two, but a lot of those two work in tech, specifically open source.
Don’t believe me? look up programer/Unix socks.
Literally my exact thought process.
No, because they were alternates to social media whose formats I had no interest in before they went to shit as they all seemed to be accounts yelling into the cloud, not somewhere that conversations could happen.
So just lemmy and piefed so far.
To me, Bluesky is like that and some ppl on mastodon are like that, but my corner of it is very conversational.
The bigger the accounts get, the less conversational they tend to want to be.
@url Friendica is where it’s at!
I started with mastodon but i can never get into that kind of social media. Everyone was super nice and i tried for a bit but it felt now like looking into people’s lives rather than whatever this is. I prefer this.
