I find the maturity level miles above reddit. Or maybe years-since-middle-school above reddit would be more accurate. Having said that, doomscroller mentality is still strong in the fediversre, but that seems inescapable. And tbh Lemmy and PeerTube are the only parts of the fediverse I use, since I’m not on Instagram or the various other things with federated alternatives.

cause it’s running at some dudes house and shit like that is fuckin 🅰️wesome

It’s smaller, and so there is less temptation to scroll when most of the posts I see are the same posts I saw yesterday.

I like the niche linguistic rebels I meet here, and even though I fundamentally disagree with them (“politics” shouldn’t refer to all human group decision, the oakframe is too cryptic for most people to adopt, and “th” is better than "þ"by a wide margin), I respect their willingness to step out of the language comfort zone. Not many people can do that.

Also, I like the idea of starting my own Reddit/Twitter/YouTube, so to speak :D

Intelligence is considerably higher

I like how it’s more decentralised but still feels easy to use, and also has no ads and isn’t controlled by companies trying to make money. I also love how it is easy to curate a feed with only content that you want in it, and none that you don’t being shoved in by algorithms that collect all your data

No ads, much less corporate influence, smaller, no spez, API access, and generally more chill

Because the vast majority of you fucking cunts are polite, witty, delightful, intelligent people!

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Functionally, I don’t. Just because Mastodon is Fediverse won’t make me “Tweet” more. Same thing here. In fact, I use Lemmy less than I used Reddit. Element does not measure up to what Discord does at the moment.

So outside of my beliefs of what the internet should be and the alignment of my choice of platforms with my beliefs, I’d rather be using the thing with the widest userbase and/or the best functionality. However, I no longer believe in Reddit, Discord, nor hardly any other big tech products; and so, here I am.

I do like the idea of federation, and I wish it were the norm for society when it comes to choice of product. But we’re at a point where many people my age don’t even know you can host your email outside of Google, and it’s not really their fault. If I could wave a magic wand and snap every service to a federated nature, making everyone who uses the internet accustomed to using the federated web, I would do so in a heartbeat.

That said, does anyone know of a good chat service that actually has desktop audio on screen share? Preferably federated and similar to Discord, but obviously that’s really specific.

Because Fediverse is non-judgmental, I don’t know who any of you are or what you look like, and Fediverse hasnt reprimanded or banned me yet.

Reddit banned me and it genuinely felt like a much too toxic place in hindsight. It’s less stressful on here as well. Plus I needed a similar alternative as most specialized forums nowadays are dead and I am fond of the easy community style.

Y’all are weird, crunchy freaks. Angry. Hostile. Curmudgeonly. Picky.

My favorites.

I don’t follow individuals, no one person is worth that, I don’t do that kind of allegiance or need to interact with a crowd of sycophant followers. So that eliminates a lot of social media right away. Threads, substack, instagram, whatever. Not interested in individuals.

I was on reddit for over a decade. Towards the end the subs became…meaningless? Reposts, bots, hive mind, karma whoring, and generally if you weren’t first to post you got zero interaction at best, at worst someone just wanted to disagree with you and downvote. Ask a question and you were stupid for not knowing the answer. Not worth it, and them came all the API issues, forcing the app, getting rid of Victoria, quarantining some subs while letting shitholes like T_D carry on… death by little cuts.

I much prefer forum-like settings, where most everyone can participate with everything and the Fediverse offers that. So here I am. Yeah, it’s not perfect, defederating is a thing, some servers are ideologically heavyhanded, it has some similar issues with users and mods as the other place, but at least the stupid Karma whoring isn’t a compounding factor.

I still use some facebook groups for hobbies, they just don’t exist here or have zero activity. But that’s about it for my social media.

Everyone on reddit is so pedanticly confrontational, to make it worse, most people like that are just really confidently wrong and therefore it’s an insufferable place. This also pretty much goes for all of mainstream media. Everyone has a shitty fucking opinion about basically everything now, and will fight you over everything no matter how big or small

Poisoned ass society and this seems to be a tad of an enclave