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

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

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.

It's smaller and friendlier, no ads, no big tech, non-commercial, open source and I can host my own instance on a potato that connects me to people all around the globe.

Because even if I have to read stupid opinions here, they are written by humans and not artificially inflated ads or bots

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

Intelligence is considerably higher

There's no incentive to enshittify. Donations from myself and others cover at least the ongoing cost if not the labor. There is nothing here trying to compete for my attention and keep me here as long as it can. No bugging me with notifications that I'm missing out on conversations or posts. I just use it here and there and if I need a few days because I'm not in the right headspace to socialize I just take it without it trying to guilt me or FOMO me into coming back.

It feels like back in the early days of the internet. You can run out of new content: go do something else for a bit. I feel like people are kinder and more polite here, though it could be my aggressive blocking of people I don't enjoy interacting with combined with my own increased effort to extend people grace.

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

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.

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

The community feels much nicer here

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.

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

I really loved Reddit.

I got banned from Reddit, not sure why, but I am sure I deserved it.

This is the closest I have found to reddit.

Centralised social media corrupts, but I do have a craving for social media in this form.

The ads are much better here

I like that they’re all connected — I can follow the portion of my friends who prefer a more Instagram type of social media, or a more TikTok style of social media, or a more Reddit style of social media, all from my mastodon account.

I'm here because I can't forgive reddit for what they did to Apollo. None of the communities I really want/need are actually even active on the fediverse but it's just the best I can get without participating in the shit show that reddit has become.

I miss the reach that reddit had and I continue to hope the fediverse will get there but.. after a few years I'm not as hopeful as I once was.

Don't really do social media, and sometimes I question if being on here makes me happier. Anyway I Used to be on reddit but left when I could not use the 3rd party app without paying.

Nobody knows who I am and everyone else here is just as nerdy as me.

Technically and practically much more open.

Slick, not burdened by ads and marketing.

I've always preferred threaded discussions over short messages or linear feed to read and take part in discussion and comments.

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.

Cultural/social hegemony leads to bad places

all the comments are written by humans and no bots.

Not sure I prefer it. Just another in my list that I use.

All the sweaty nerds circle jerking about how great federation is. That, and all of the politics that goes on between different hosts and their moderation policies.

I don't dislike federation, but I think it introduced at least as many problems/nuisances as it fixes.

It is MINE. My data, my privacy, my communities. I can have accounts for my family and no one can access it conversations. I selfhost and I can still interact with the broader world.

FREEDOM

Also I LOVE trying out the new software coming out. THIS is innovation. Big Tech doesn't want to allow you to watch you're content from anywhere. They have to harvest you, feed you ads, keep you addicted.

It's not corporate owned. No profit motive to turn things to shit.