Went to Mastodon after Twitter got bought by Elon. Don’t really care for the whole “He’s a Nazi” stuff, mainly intrigued that corporate-free social media even existed. I was attracted by the no ad policy 😜 Since then I wouldn’t say I was e erywhere, but I have embraced #IndieWeb principles by making sure I was on platforms I can easily switch from. For eg, moved my website from Squarespace to WordPress.com cos it can connect with the Fediverse. (comments on my Mastodon can appear on the related blog post for eg).
In the future it is said that WordPress and Tumblr will connect to Activity Pub. Still waiting 😆
I’m everywhere on the fediverse. Mastodon, peertube, Lemmy, even Matrix and xmpp and nostr.
I realized a couple years back that we can’t trust big tech even to do the basics like send messages from point a to point b, at that point I have no use for them anymore.
Started on Mastodon around the time of Elon announcing he would buy Twitter last spring.
Instantly randomized all account data, archived my content, requested right to be forgotten, and deleted my account. (I don’t care about him or his politics, I just didn’t think he would run Twitter well, and that proved to be correct).
As for Reddit, like others, Lemmy. I started with KBin after FediTips recommended it, but I can’t stand it due to the “OSFA” approach of mixing Twitter/Reddit.
As for YouTube, I don’t/can’t. Though, I do use my own private Invid/Piped server.
Overall, I can’t say I miss any of the mainstream services. Though we’ve had a massive Redditor influx on Lemmy after the API did shut off for many apps, I still find the content in specific communities, much higher than that of Reddit with its memes, bots, and power hungry mods.
I like that on Lemmy, everything everyone does is public, so you can see if a company is astroturfing or if a person is a troll; while there are privacy concerns (I take privacy extremely seriously with email aliases, phone aliases, VPNs or Proxy when applicable) with having everything public, but as long as you don’t use your real name or anything linked backed to you, I’d say you’re fine.
By having everything visible, I feel like it makes the community much more open and transparent than that of Reddit, Twitter, etc.
There aren’t really any drawbacks, it’s up to individual perception.
For me, I like discussion board content like lemmy/reddit, in its own app or interface as these sites focus on content like that, whereas Mastodon/Twitter are for more short texts which are great for updates and general news, but aren’t good for a forum like/board like experience.
With KBin mixing them both, it feels discordant to me.
Mastodon is its own thing. It’s a microblogging platform like Twitter. Lemmy is an aggregator and discussion platform like Reddit. Kbin is a mix of both.
But they all can talk with each other as they’re using a set of communication protocols that everyone understands, called ActivityPub. This protocol is the foundation that made the fediverse possible. It means content can be spread across many servers, and interactions can happen the same way.
Honestly no, I’m waiting for it to come to me. I was promised eventual inter-operability with a lot of it from my one account, and I like the simple format of Lemmy, so I’m waiting until I can access stuff like Mastodon content from here.
They’ll cave to pressure eventually. I understand them not prioritizing adding the functionality early in the development, when there are about a billion things potentially more important.
Once those billion things get whittled down though, the situation changes. If they haven’t added it in 3 years, I’ll probably just switch to kbin. Probably along with many others, due to overall integration being pretty integral to the Fediverse as a whole.
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