I’ve been on Lemmy and Mastodon for a little while but still not super active on either, and haven’t really kept up with fediverse stuff as a whole.

With that said, I’m interested, what are you using, how are you using it, and what are you using it on? Do you have a bunch of accounts per platform? Do you try use one account across everything as much as you can?

I’ll go first with something of a template that might make responding easier for people:

EDIT: Apologies for the formatting, it seems like some of the markdown stuff is broken/very different to any other markdown formatting I’ve used and this is the best I can do. Hope it’s legible enough.

template

  • Accessed from:

  • Platform name

  • Accounts:

  • Apps:

  • Uses:

Accessed from:

  • Safari on MacOS

  • Apps on iOS

Mastodon

  • Accounts: 2 — an anonymous one that I occasionally post from (on an NZ instance) and one under my real name that I basically just use to save my name as a handle (on mastodon.social, cos it seems like the one most likely to endure all things)

  • Apps: Ice Cubes, Mammoth — I have both accounts on both apps, I like each for different reasons. Ice Cubes is super customisable and open, Mammoth is pretty.

  • Uses: Following some podcast hosts, keeping up with local news.

Lemmy

  • Accounts: 1 — just this one I’m posting from.

  • Apps: Memmy and Mlem. I was a long-time Apollo user and have been seeking out a Lemmy app with that level of polish. Nothing really feels quite the same, but I’m sure with time one of them will get there.

  • Uses: Trying to replace Reddit as a discussion board for a bunch of topics I my real-world friends aren’t as interested in, and for keeping up with tech news.

Pixelfed

  • Accounts: 1 — under my real name.

  • Apps: 0 at the moment. I used the Pixelfed test flight app for a while, but it seemed to be hurting my battery life. When it gets a proper app store release, I’ll probably grab it again if nothing else comes along.

  • Uses: Trying to make it as much of an old-Instagram replacement as possible.

Now it’s your turn. What other platforms are you on, how are you using them, etc.

  • ChrisEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Accessed from: Mobile, Desktop

    Platform Name: Mastodon

    • Accounts: Lots, Main one on oldbytes.space

    • Apps: Tusky

    • Uses: Mostly following retrocomputing folk, and running friendly bots.

    Platform Name: Lemmy

    • Accounts: This one is my main, a few bot accounts and others just for creating communities

    • Apps: Connect

    • Uses: You all know what this is! I also run a few posting bots

    Platform Name: Mbin

    • Accounts: Fedia.io

    • Apps: None, was testing Artemis until it went AWOL

    • Uses: Hosting a few communities still. Was my main Lemmyesque account but Kbin was horribly unreliable. Mbin seems much better but waiting for app support as I like Connect more than the mobile web interface.

    Platform Name: Bookwyrm

    • Accounts: wyrms.de

    • Apps: None

    • Uses: Logging and reviewing books I’ve read, keeping track of what is on my pile of books still to read.

    Platform Name: Takahē

    • Accounts: Technically one, but it supports multiple profiles

    • Apps: Tusky

    • Uses: Mostly testing, run a few minor accounts there because the multiple profiles feature is ace.

    Platform Name: Funkwhale

    • Accounts: One (can’t remember domain offhand)

    • Apps: None

    • Uses: My bots also post here, I’ve never managed to get federation working on it though.

    I think that’s it. I did have a PeerTube account but the instance it was on closed down, and I haven’t bothered to make a new one elsewhere.

    • HeavyDogFeetOP
      3•1 year ago

      Damn, you’re deep into the fediverse. Thanks for sharing.