And to those that have been here for a while, how has your experience changed over the year(s)?

What has worked for you?
What do you see needs improvement in your chosen platform?

  • mesa@piefed.socialOPEnglish
    41·
    2 days ago

    For me I started out on Mastodon, has some fun with individuals I knew. Got into lemmy(world) for about a year. Then decided this piefed thing is fun (and found out about scheduled posts). Now I am here.

    I also use Gotosocial, Peertube, and for a little while there bookwyrm, funckwhale, and friendica.

    So this whole posting and other people on other platforms commenting/sharing has worked out quite a few places! Its awesome to open up a thread somewhere and see many different accounts on many different servers all talking to one another. I enjoy the interactions here much more than traditional social media.

    For improvements, I would still very much like an all in one app. I know its quite a bit far fetched, but its a hassle and a half to keep up with all these accounts. I want either:

    1. One fediverse app to rule them all (join everything fedi related, comment on everything fedi related)
      OR
    2. A way to login to most fedi services I use and use the UI that service has with my login creds.

    Its all very far fetched, but it still kinda sucks I have to manage something like 6 different accounts across different software stacks.

    • Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol
      2·
      2 days ago

      Yeah… I tend to keep my accounts here as a “Do I really need/want the UI, or can I just do it on my main account?” and judge from there. Like. It’s fair to me that Friendica, Mastodon, Hubzilla, and the *keys share a protocol. They’re all doing the same fundamental thing in a slightly different way: Blogging/microblogging. What the fediverse was built on, largely.

      It is weird to me that Lemmy, Bookwyrm, Funkwhale, and to a lesser extent PeerTube are all on that same network. A community-based content aggregator, book reviewer, music hoster, and video hoster on that same network feels weird, and as a result I do have a Lemmy, and a Friendica account. I don’t care to have a Mastodon/GTS/*key account on top of it because they function near identically, but these are all fundamentally different pieces of software. You subscribe to one Lemmy community, and that’s your entire feed now. Bookwyrm functionally can’t use Mastodon posts, and you’re not going to Mastodon for that flavor of book review, etc.