I like Mastodon, but I gotta say, Lemmy has basically taken over as my go to boredom relief app. When Iβm not on Lemmy, Iβm probably on YouTube.
Then thereβs work: GitHub and email.
And play: Steam.
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
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I don't get the whole twitter-like microblogging thing. Mastodon feels kind of strange to me because it's similar to that. I try to find a cool place to hang out there, but it always feels like a waste. But YouTube... the amount of time I give YouTube.. lol
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I'm still on IRC! There's a raw simplicity to it that I appreciate. You don't have to use a bloated Electron app to connect to a proprietary service, you can just go straight text on the protocol-level in terminal (if you're nuts), and the protocol is open and simple enough to understand that you can easily make your own client even if you're a lazy or mediocre dev.
So IRC, Lemmy, and I guess Instagram (if that counts)
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98% YouTube and 2% Lemmy
If rest of the internet dissapeared it would take a while for me to notice.
I'm like 90% YouTube, 2% Lemmy and 8% just googling random stuff. Celebrity facts, historical events, programming problems, stuff I want to buy. YouTube is king though. Kinda hate that I waste so much time on it.
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I think some of us are intentionally avoiding big tech now and try to find places online that doesn't feel completely dead soul wise.
Lemmy feels good for me, but I'm also looking for web sites where I feel connected to people.
Iβve found that small blogs are excellent for this. I started my own and reached out to a few smaller blogs from some really interesting people. I instantly felt at home in the community.
Thanks, yes, I guess it's time to go back to following blogs and interacting with real people again on the web. Before big tech, that's what the entire internet was. Just lots of original web sites from individuals wanting to show their web design skills or talking about random topics.
It just feels like it's harder to find those now, and also a bit inconvenient to remember to go to each site every now and then. We got lazy with centralized services, with everything under one centralized controlled roof owned by an insane billionaire with mommy issues.
An RSS reader is the ideal tool for that. No need to remember to go to every site when all of them are in one place. And most blogs have an RSS feed as well.
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Hacker News, mainly.
Sometimes I log on to Reddit to help travelers to my country or hobbyists trying to learn engineering. I try to avoid discussion on Reddit as the quality is often not high, e.g. lots of tourists asking how to commit crimes in my country -- better to just not answer.
For discussion I go here, it's much more interesting.
IRC has always been pretty cool. I might go back to that one day. For now this is just the part of my life where I try to make money and don't have much time to socialize.
Primarily mastodon. Really enjoying that.
Facebook for relatives & friends from the real world.
I find the Mastodon/Threads/Twitter medium to be kind of hard to love sometimes. You must have found a great community! Where/who do you interact with on Mastodon?
Retrocomputing, film & art crowds.
I've been posting a lot of silent film stuff recently.
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XMPP MUCs, IRC, some Matrix Spaces. Lobsters, Mastodon.
I refuse Discord. I really wish I could refuse Microsoft GitHubβsource code doesnβt need to be a proprietary social media plaform.
if it isn't for work related stuff, there are some self hosted github alternatives like gitlab, gitea and gogs
they might have less features tho
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At this point it's mainly Lemmy, Imgur, and Discord for me.
Do you just look at pictures on Imgur? Are there actual communities? Iβve only used it as a place to upload pictures to link on Lemmy or Reddit.
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YouTube has kicked the wasp nest by blocking Adblockers. Lots of drama over there
I only hang out here, been spending way less time browsing online, which I'd say is a good thing. Been playing more video games, and even reading.
Also I'm curious about Discord, when people say they hang out there, do they just find a channel they like and keep up with the chat all day?
as someone who was heavily addicted to discord: yes, morning routine was basically reading messages from the night, mostly fear of missing out
Also I'm curious about Discord, when people say they hang out there, do they just find a channel they like and keep up with the chat all day?
I think so. I'm in a few discords, but don't really keep up with it. However, people seem to be active in them.
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If it counts, I know a lot of people hang out on VR chat. It's a very common misnomer that you need a VR to run the platform, most of my friends don't even bother being in VR they just use it in desktop mode. I expect you probably meant more text-based, but I wanted to throw that on the board as well
I still use Instagram to keep up and chat with friends and Facebook only because my kid's school only posts there
The obligation to stay on Facebook for things like this is so frustrating at times. It feels like LinkedIn, where I have it because it's the only place to get some information.
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My routine is, in this order, Lemmy, Mastodon, Tumblr
Reddit for niche topics, Imgur for weird and funny.
Twitter and BlueSky. Shifting more so to the latter the worse the former gets.
No Mastodon? I always assume all of us lemmy people use Mastodon (if they are into the twitter kind of thing).
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Forums. Those of interests that interest me, specific games forums, OS forums, comic book forums, forums.
Lemmy is just a weird poorly-designed forum I also read.
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This is it. And board game geek. And discord.
Even though I'm technically not hanging out with people, I like to occasionally look through some of the different sites on Neocities to see what cool things people have made.
Discord and the osrs grand exchange w390 or dustbowl tf2
TV Tropes is absolutely packed if you ever want to join.
According to my Android phone:
Sync for Lemmy in second or first place most of the time, same for Telegram.
A bit of Discord and Sync for Reddit too.
Firefox random searches.
A bit of Meta apps (almost zero use of Instagram, but it vary with Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger, usually FB is the winner).
Feeder and Feedly at the very last (I get my tech news right here).
YouTube I use it a lot, not on mobile but my Shield TV
IRC, assorted mailing lists and forums, Matrix, Mastodon and occasionally Reddit (blasphemy, I know)
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Well...
Matrix, lemmy, mastodon, mumble, im not a fan of irc I have an xmpp, i dont use it often tho I also have signal for irls
Ive used discord, trying to run away from it
If anyone wants to chat im down my contact site lol (idk if thats self advertising)
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Lemmy is my go to when I have downtime and want to mindlessly scroll but Iβve been really into making things lately so Iβve been on GitHub for fun trying to understand how other projects work.
YCombinator's HackerNews mostly.
Mastodon mostly
Mostly YouTube, Hacker News, and some mailing lists. I do join some random forums to discuss non-tech hobbies like English writings, games, or classical music.
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