I’ll go first…
My favorite Fediverse platforms as of 2024
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Mastodon - my main social feed platform that first introduced me to the Fediverse in general.
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Lemmy - my second main social feed platform that originally substituted Reddit from years ago.
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Matrix protocol - communication platform I use to connect with users on the Lemmy instance I’m on
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Peertube - would love to get an account going and use it more often but still don’t know how but there’s FediVideo.
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Bookwyrm - Goodreads alternative that I signed up for that could use more work for a genuine reading tracker.
BONUS: my least favorite Fediverse platform lately
WordPress - because I used to run art blogs on there before I heard word about drama about the CEO of the corporation so I basically had to put out my last existing art blog…RIP.
kbin obviously!
Mbin now!
God willing ernst comes back
How’s he doing? I heard he had some health problems.
No idea. But I hope everything works out, i think it wss multiple shiti life events too.
Sometimes people get a bad roll in life.
Big fan of his work, got me to quit using Reddit!
As far as I can tell there’s been no communication from him for several months and not since he posted saying he’d turn kbin.social over to a new admin.
But the domain for kbin.social was recently renewed (I posted full details over at https://fedia.io/m/fediverse/t/1403334/Any-updates-on-kbin-social-recently ) which gives me hope that ernest is still around, just a bit more behind the scenes.
Of course, it could also be that the domain was simply auto-renewed (as described in https://www.godaddy.com/en-ca/help/turn-my-domain-auto-renew-on-or-off-41085 ). I think some registrars or services even offer prepayment options for auto-renewing, meaning that ernest might have set this all up before he disappeared, rather than slowly reappearing now…
Between Social, Run, and Artemis, I’m beginning to think kbin might be cursed. I’m on my fourth kbin instance, but have decided to revisit my lemmy account to enjoy some native ios app experiences again.
Yeah i lost a few accounts switching.
What’s your current kbin instance? Curious to see if it’s running mbin now or if it really is the original kbin on there still.
Also, anyone remember kbin.cafe ?
It think it runs latest mbin
Fedia, though I made another backup account on brainbin.
I agree with you.
@VanHalbgott I like friendica, it works with Lemmy, microblogging platforms, and macroblogging platforms. I’m maybe not online as much as the average user (and often read fediverse content via bridges instead of nativly), so it’s a nice consolation of everything. It also supports rich text and higher char limits for more nuanced posts/replies.
Cool.
For me it’s definitely Lemmy. I don’t like the microblogging format and never have. I’ve always used forums and then reddit.
The fediverse just works so well with Lemmy I think. It’s so fun seeing new communities from instances I’ve never heard of. I think this format is perfect for the fediverse
I like it too. :)
Mastodon. Easily better than Twitter in every way, even when it wasn’t full of garbage. Can’t say the same for Lemmy, it’s not bad, and in some ways better but in some ways worse.
Which one should I join for funny or time killing content?
Lemmy and Mastodon have an equal amount of shitposting and meme content in my experience
Peertube, Bookwyrm, Lemmy, Mastodon in that order. Theres a ton out there I haven’t tried.
mbin!
Yeah, that chart needs to be updated. AFAIK no instance is still on kbin, everything has gone to mbin. It’s also missing pyfedi/piefed
yep, fedidb has it at a single instance;
https://fedidb.org/software/kbin
i wish i could get a hold of kbin.social if no one is going to do anything with it… maybe forward it to fedia.io
What’s interesting is that currently, the site is broken, but in the footer you can see the last set of magazines that were new.
Which means the database is still intact, and if not a full resurrection, we could get our data back at least (I lost a lot of content when kbin.social went down). Just gotta figure out who to contact - which company is actually maintaining or hosting the servers that kbin.social run on…
There is Matrix but no XMPP :(
How is matrix even considered a fediverse platform lol? It largely exists independently from the rest of the ecosystem. I do appreciate the representation tho because this is fairly decent free advertising and id like to see it grow
I guess because it can federate with other servers and protocols?
Idfk lol hopefully its possible to use matrix inside mastoclones or lemmy, probably a much better alternative to the less secure direct messages they offer natively
Out of curiosity rather than necessity, are there any activitypub based messaging apps (i.e matrix/discord-like)?
One not listed is Ibis (https://ibis.wiki/) which hasn’t had much traction. Honestly unsure of how useful it is as a direct wikipedia replacement but i can see it as a cool idea for a bunch of related communities that would otherwise be on separate wikis.
Ibis is really early days. I hosted it for a bit and had things like federation issues and softlocks. Will be really interesting when it’s a bit more mature though.
Every time I see this I think it needs a Storage and a Conversation branch.
I really wanted to like bookwyrm and use it but it’s just so bare bones. Instead, I switched from goodreads to StoryGraph like two years ago. I really like some of its features like content warnings, moods, very detailed stats of my reading habits, etc.
I use Bookwyrm specifically because its barebones. It’s my favorite platform
Lemmy and Catodon and Pixelfed, in that order.
Without any particular order: Lemmy, Mastodon, Bookwyrm.
Is there any write-up about interops between any of them?
