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Bit of a simple question: Some people on lemmy are still posting stuff from youtube, xitter and the like.

Have you gone full fediverse yet or how far are you?

  1. traded reddit for lemmy/kbin
  2. xitter for mastodon
  3. discord for matrix
  4. youtube for peertube

Obviously I also mean other alternatives. Which ones do you use and why?

Disclaimer: this question is me asking genuinely but also trying to make it fun by arbitrary ranking/escalating it. Not trying to say one is better than the others.

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[–] indigojasper@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i'm almost full fedi, even left instagram. it's just discord and youtube that are gonna be hardest to replace for me. been looking at peertube for uploading video game streams but the upload limit...

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good for you! :) I completely left discord, especially since matrix has bridges for it. You can puppet your discord account through matrix.

Youtube is hard for me as well. Peertube does not always have an upload limit I think. Either make or find an instance without it. Might need to pay a bit because space aint for free. I don’t appreciate the discoverability and lack of an app atm. Not good enough of a coder to poop one out though. Must he possible to wrap a firefox or chrome instance in window, right?

[–] indigojasper@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

good to know, i'll have to check it out

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[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i probably can't go full fedi unless if YouTube stops being a monopoly then i maybe can

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • I purged my Reddit account 4(?) months ago, and I'd been off it for a few months before that.
  • I've been using Mastodon, and the gotosocial, for about a year and a half. I never really used Twitter, though, and since the Great Reddit Exodus, I use Lemmy more. I've never found microblogging to have much value.
  • Why would anyone go from Matrix to Dicord? Did you swap the order here?
  • I haven't stopped using YouTube. There's no equivalent content on Peertube. Yet
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[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
  1. I'll follow a search result to reddit, but I don't actively browse it.
  2. Never used either. I created a Mastodon account somewhere once upon a time but never used it.
  3. My friends use Discord, and aren't interested in moving. So I use it.
  4. I don't post or comment on YouTube, but I do follow a handful of people. Not signed in, just using rss feeds.
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[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Still using Discord and YouTube fully and reading some things on Reddit and Twitter. Not posting ob the latter two anymore though.

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[–] God_Is_Love@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Most of them! I'm struggling to understand peertube but maybe I'll get it eventually. In the meantime I'm still on YouTube but I've fediversed all the others πŸŽ‰

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thats awesome! Peertube is an odd one but has character. The biggest issue imo is that you cant sort on sepiasearch.org with likes, views and comments.

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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

1: I'm running a kbin instance so. Yeah, think I've covered that.
2: Never had a twitter account. I used to check news from some companies that announce stuff there. But you can't even do that without an account now, so I don't visit them aside from if people send me direct links to stuff.
3: Yes and no. I'm using both, mainly because I don't control where everyone else goes.
4: I did (well still do) have a peertube instance up, I've just not moved it to the new server yet and not decided if I will. The problem is, storage. For threadiverse (kbin in my case) the space used is easily containable, the media goes onto S3 and I can surf the best combination of speed/price for that and the DB actually grows at a pretty controllable rate. But peertube takes a LOT of space quickly. I suspect it's a bit harder to have the kind of freedom to post long videos, also livestreaming. I tried 1440p and the server (which is decently specced) couldn't keep up. So, this might be a failed experiment for me I think.

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[–] FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I'm slowly migrating to Lemmy/Kbin.

The mods of Reddit are just power abusing shitheads. The same communities will eventually come to the fediverse.

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Basically everything except discord. I don't use Twitter or anything like that so mastodon isn't my thing

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ah! The sharkfucker again! We two should link on matrix since we always bump into one another. :) seems like we frequent similar communities. Feel free to add me @haui:matrix.giftedmc.com

And you could use a discord bridge as well. It takes over your discord account and poses as you and you can have all your chats as matrix rooms and places. Pretty insane. I learned that this week.

Have a good one!

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not the shark fucker but could you send me the guide on how to do this? I would love to set this up. Also does it work for multiple accounts?

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tis I, the sharkfucker

Currently I use vendetta for discord which is an open source discord client and while I'm pretty happy with it I suppose it could be better at times.

What are the merits of matrix? What is it exactly? Is there a mobile apk? How do I go about this?

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[–] misophist@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Shit, man, if I went full fedi, I'd have even less to contribute than I already do. We've gotta have some external sources of news and knowledge.

I have traded reddit for lemmy and just closed my Meta and Xitter accounts and I'm already feeling a disconnect from society. I've been subscribing to new youtube channels and setting up RSS feeds to make up for the lack of connection to current events.

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[–] covert_czar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've migrated to almost all foss services. I'm only sharing from non free services if i can't avoid. I'm using this username in each and every services

1,2,3 yes
Its hard to avoid youtube as most of my favourite youtubers wont migrate or even they don't know about foss platforms. They want their ad revenue. Its hard to convience them and hard for them to move

My Fediverse accounts:
Mastodon not Twitter Lemmy not Reddit Friendica not Facebook Peertube not Youtube: Funkwhale not spotify: Bookwyrm not Goodreads Writefreely not blogger:
Lichess not chess.com: Matrix not discord: https://matrix.to/#/@covert_czar:matrix.org
I'm also on pixelfed (not instagram)

Sure i do use proprietory softwares and nonfree services. I do consider them as useful as foss softwares. I just explored most of the fedi universe doesn't mean i hate non-free services.
I'm more active on mastodon, pixelfed, lemmy, matrix and lichess

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/4205915 And finally A meme i made about fediverseπŸ˜‚ Edit: deleted all personal links

[–] spiderplant@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Instead of going fedi I'm going minimal.

Reddit -> Lemmy, with the caveat that time spent on here is minimal, to be reviewed at a later date.

xitter -> nothing, nitter.net if I want to read a xeet linked by another resource. Ultimately for me micro blogging social media is a time suck with little return.

discord -> still on it for a few different reasons, not sure if I'll set up matrix just to do a bridge, privacy and minimalism are clashing here.

YouTube -> nothing, invidious if I want to watch yt content. Short or low quality video content is another time suck, try and keep video streaming to a minimum for environmental and mental health reasons.

Netflix and others -> the high seas (it is decentralised)

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[–] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I realize I'm a bit strange when it comes to social media, but have never signed up for twitter, discord, youtube, facebook, instagram, or anything else like that. I had a reddit account, but bailed as soon as I heard about kbin. So yeah, I gues that makes me a full fedi.

[–] EmoBean@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Same, I've watched everything from MySpace to Twitter come and go without ever participating. I would browse reddit and did comment on the small subs for my hobbies in the early days.

I feel like the internet is collapsing, in 2-5 years things are going to be so different. I'm here to shit post and cry until it ends. It's was fun while it lasted.

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[–] bestusername@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

What? How far am I what?

[–] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

1-2 yes

3-4 no (or at least, not yet)

Has it been a perfect migration? No.

There are a ton of quirks that need to be worked out, but I'm still betting on the Fediverse because of its openness and philosophy.

I can relate. The constant amount of bugs is what makes using unpolished stuff a challenge. But it’s kind of the same thing if youβ€˜re living in a democracy. Being in an authoritarian regime allows for more streamlined visuals (dubai) but also leads to ethnic cleansing and other transgressions.

[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

PS - If someone wants to get into watching PeerTube, TILVids.com is a great start.

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[–] eugenia@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have. I still use the other ones occasionally for specific topics that don't get much attention in the fediverse yet (e.g. ufos -- I know, I know...), but overall, my main platforms are the fediverse, not the corporate ones.

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[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

1 - 3.

I’m still on YouTube.

Relatable. I also visit youtube often. Peertube still needs work but Iβ€˜m optimistic.

[–] ozoned@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have been for years and haven't regretted it. Run my own micro-blog with go to social, tilvids is an excellent peertube, beehaw for lemmy, and matrix is the only option when talking to family imo.

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[–] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
  1. Yes
  2. Yes
  3. N/A (never used Discord)
  4. I post to PeerTube, but YouTube still has all of the content so that's where I go to watch things (via NewPipe & FreeTube though)
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