What Fediverse services do you use?
from gon@lemm.ee to fediverse@lemmy.world on 07 Mar 18:57
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from gon@lemm.ee to fediverse@lemmy.world on 07 Mar 18:57
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There’s so many ways to interact with the Fediverse. The most popular, by far, seems to be Mastodon, but Lemmy, Misskey, and Pixelfed are also relatively popular. Kbin used to be popular, but it has apparently been abandoned, and is mostly dead at this point.
I recently learned that Mbin is a thing, checked it out, and it looked really cool! Has anyone used it? How different is it from Lemmy? I hear they have better integration with Mastodon.
What Fediverse services do you actually, regularly use?
For me, it’s mostly Lemmy, though I do hop on Mastodon every now and then.
threaded - newest
Mostly Lemmy for me but sometimes Pixelfed. I’m also a psychopath and browse “everything” with all NSFW filters turned off while at work, so I’m probably not a good judge.
That is actual insanity yeah, I have NSFW turned off even at home…
I open the links too.
Blocked and reported. Get out of my feed. /j
I know, I’m a mad man. But I stand by my principles of seeing boobs at work.
Mostly Lemmy via discuss.online, with a little bit of Pixelfed via social.photo and Mastodon via utter.online.
I was using Loops pretty heavily for a while, but the most recent update made it not work right on my phone (and there’s no web version), so maybe I’ll try again when it’s out of beta. It’s also not truly federated atm, so only sort of counts.
I’ve tried out a bit of PieFed and it looks really nice. Probably the best Lemmy threadiverse alternative atm. The dev does some interesting experiments like Private Voting
How’s Pixelfed’s federation work? I thought it was an image-based thing, like Instagram, so how does that interop with, say, Lemmy?
Is that like TikTok? Or like Reels, I guess, since it’s Pixelfed. A shame it doesn’t work for you… I’m big on TikTok, might just give it a try, though I’m not sure I can find the content I want on such a niche platform.
Over Lemmy? Why do you say so? I see what they list as differences from Lemmy and some of the features seem pretty nice, but I’m skeptical of this reputation business. Feels a little like Reddit karma, I don’t know.
Pixelfed federation works well. it shows up on anything activityhub related.
Works closer to mastodon with hashtags.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Pixelfed post… But I was thinking more so the other way around. Does anything AP-related show up on Pixelfed?
Yep works both ways.
If you want to try it out:
Pixelfed to other services:
https://photos.chrisco.me/p/michaelc/803147727714451568
It shows up in:
* Mastodon: https://social.rootaccess.org/@michaelc@photos.chrisco.me/114114045115285962
Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/114122668582152347
And here it is in pixelfed: https://photos.chrisco.me/i/web/post/803734298035587039
oh wait that may not work for you on my server, I made it auth protected woops!
It works but im on the phone....so im going to leave it for now. But yeah it works.
Ugh, the links aren’t working as intended I think…
The first Pixelfed link works, but the first Mastodon link just redirects me to the Pixelfed one.
The second Mastodon link works, but the corresponding Pixelfed link prompts a signup…
I believe you, though!
Yeah its totally my setup! I had some issues with openAI and amazon just slamming my servers so had to make it harder for them to get content.
Dang ://
Pixelfed/Mastodon/etc sort of work with Lemmy, in that they can see Lemmy posts. Lemmy can see posts from them if you tag them appropriately, which rarely happens. They only sort of federate properly. And yeah, Loops is like TikTok for the Fediverse.
I’m not saying PieFed is better than Lemmy, just saying that apart from Lemmy, your best option is probably PieFed atm.
PieFed is more advanced than Lemmy in several ways, while less so in others.
Like for one it offers fantastic onboarding to the Fediverse via a wizard asking users what topics they are interested in and then signs them up to communities.
And for another, at any time users can view Categories of Communities, such as all things Fediverse, News & Politics, or Gaming, and now users can even create our own customized Feeds - all of this is in addition to rather than instead of the traditional Subscribed and All feeds.
Users can also follow anything - a user, community, post, single comment, etc. - plus stop following comments that you've written but no longer wish to receive notifications for.
It's REALLY cool! The major downsides revolve around it being newer and so a bit less polished, like there's now a post preview feature but that is not yet available for comment replies.
The codebase is written in Python, so is possible for more people to help out with making changes than Lemmy, written in Rust. Some people wonder if it might not scale as well to larger number of users, but so far that is not a problem and the speed of updates seems well worth that trade-off.
I see… You make a compelling argument, to be honest, and those are some nice features. I really like this custom Feed thing.
I’m definitely delving into Piefed in the coming days.
It is very much worth checking out, yes!
I use it as my daily driver. Some functions, like searching for posts, are abysmally bad - but thankfully that's the only one in that category. For me who can hop over to a Lemmy alt when I need to, PieFed is a great main. Another downside is that often I receive a notification for something that I cannot see, for a variety of reasons including that I've blocked all users from an instance (but hey, on PieFed that's actually possible in the first place!).
PieFed is definitely still in alpha, though ironically a better experience than Lemmy in many ways for all of that, even though a more frustrating one in other ways. An API is currently being tested using the Thunder app, which should help smooth the usability issues.
My advice: most definitely make a PieFed account - you have nothing to lose there - and also hold onto your older one. You'll use it less and less often, you'll see:-). There is a bit of a learning curve though, since PieFed offers so many new features and you'll want to try out this and that to see what works best for you. e.g. for some lower-volume communities, I have notifications set up to receive every single new post, rather than have to wait to find that while scrolling Subscribed or All. It really helps! (But can be quite overwhelming for higher-volume communities - the better way now could be to create a custom topic Feed, which I haven't tried yet but that's awesome that I now can:-).
I love how excited you are about this!
I have a PieFed account. Set it up and browsed for a little, but haven’t found my way quite yet. I’ll try to figure it out this weekend.
I’ll probably post about my expedience on !gondaily@lemm.ee, one of these days.
Excited :D
Yeah the learning curve is real... but fortunately it's bc there is so much more that can be done, not bc like it's "difficult" or anything, just that you get to choose how you want things to be.:-)
Like anything, you get better with practice, so yeah, just start strolling through the posts and enjoy!
PieFed really is the best (most often only) answer that I've seen to SO VERY MANY questions for how to accomplish something on Lemmy (usually you cannot, unless some app provides that feature). Like how to see posts that have nothing whatsoever to do with politics: the topics (often if not always tend to) do that, like Arts & Crafts - and another cool trick is that if you ever do want it, News & Politics is always right there just waiting for you, so there's no longer any need to "subscribe" to those (or maybe subscribe to some of the lower traffic, less contentious communities?), hence you can both have a Subscription feed free of politics (as an example, for someone who wanted that) and still have full access to politics whenever you wanted. It's a whole new way of browsing the Threadiverse, i.e. even if accessing the same Lemmy communities, you approach it all differently - or, you can, if you want.
It's so nice to have choices!:-)
:D That does sound nice…
It is nice. I use my older Lemmy account less and less often these days... I am glad that Lemmy exists for people - especially someone just using it as a back-end for whatever app of choice they use as an actual interface - but I am even more glad to have PieFed, which suits so many of my needs (tbf not all) perfectly or at least more so than Lemmy.:-D
What do you think is missing from PieFed?
The search function for content is abysmally bad. Tbf it hasn't been shown much love yet, and Reddit's was (edit: hehe, I meant "is") not great either. Though Lemmy's is superb, especially newer features will allow restriction to post titles.
Another one: PieFed has a post preview option, but only for posts, not comments. So I either find out about problems (like an image not being displayed properly) afterwards, or I have to open a new tab and try a preview with either Lemmy, or a new post on PieFed.
One annoyance: you can receive notifications for things that don't exist, or you don't have access to (e.g. if you block all users from an instance - which on PieFed you can do that! Lemmy's version is misnamed and so weak as to be misleading to be called an instance block, when it allows content from users on that instance to be displayed, and they can also reply to you, trigger notifications, etc., really it should have been named a community mute rather than instance block, but PieFed's version is so helpful! - but anyway if you do that, they can still trigger a notification for you, even though you cannot see their actual reply. Another annoyance: if you leave on the default settings for either the auto-collapse or auto-hide features, then it may take you to a space on the page that has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual reply, and you have to hunt it down (which if it were removed rather than just collapsed, you will literally never find it). Also if the post or comment OP deletes their content, then the notification should likewise be removed, but right now it's not.
So it's not "perfect". I maintain a backup Lemmy account for whenever the server has connectivity issues (all Lemmy instances do that too), and for whenever I run into one of these issues above.
It also would be nice to more often be able to navigate to the original location of everything, which often works on PieFed but not nearly as readily as the rainbow colored Fediverse icon in the Lemmy web UI.
Even so, these minor issues of polish aside, PieFed is a strong option, hence why I use it as my daily driver, with (next to) zero regrets, again especially for someone who is familiar with doing searching for content in Lemmy.
And new features continue to be added, sometimes weekly but definitely at least monthly. It's so FAST! And the main dev Rimu is so helpful and friendly, as are so many others I've interacted with. I would suggest to make an account and check it out! The worst that could happen is that you don't enjoy it enough and want to keep using your old one, in which case you'll still have seen something new, plus have a not-brand-new account to use later if you ever wanted (e.g. you are prevented from sending someone a DM for the first two weeks, which is appropriate imho). However, even though the learning curve is real (bc having access to additional options offers up new ways to structure your content delivery to yourself to be more fully optimal), I am confident that as you see more what it has to offer, you'll return the older account less and less often (you'll still need to for moderation activities, especially since mod activities do not federate even among Lemmy instances much less across from PieFed, but for daily driving it's quite a treat, really!).
It does seem then that the less-than-great aspects of PieFed, from your perspective, are quality of life sort of things, rather than core aspects of the way PieFed works. That’s nice to hear :D
I’ve tried it out just a little, but I’ll definitely be exploring it more!
Yeah, it is untested on a larger scale, and I haven't tried modding a community on it, but it does hold a lot of promise and capability. As you'll see!:-)
I like the sound of this. Pardon the comparison, but it's like multisubreddit. That's one of the big things from reddit I miss. Making my own categorised feed.
It is a feature very often asked for on Lemmy, but with the codebase being in Rust, development work on it is very slow. With PieFed being in Python, it is far easier to add features such as that one to it.:-)
loops needs to add selfhosting for vid quality options alone, everythings so blurry
Lemmy and Mastodon. Only lemmy really interests me. I got pixelfed and bookwyrm too, the latter seems pretty good replacement for good reads. I don’t see myself posting just to myself on pixelfed. I also find mastodon very difficult if you don’t want to talk about Linux or American politics. I absolutely do not get the point of friendica and think the low MAU shows that no one wants Facebook 2.0
Quite frankly, I don’t even want regular Facebook…
That’s just my point! Facebook but federated is still facebook
Only Lemmy. I could never find anything interesting on Mastodon and hate the Twitter-based format.
Understandable, really. I follow the #caturday tag and a comedy account called @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social so my feed is lovely.
Same, same, and same.
Lemmy, Mastodon and Pixelfed. what I like about the last one is that I managed to find enough accounts posting pictures that I like, that I pretty much get to press like on everything I see on my feed there.
You know, I think image-based social media just isn’t for me… I already use Mastodon as that, pretty much… It’s my cat image generator, but with the benefit of also occasionally including some news and memes. Lots of people love Instagram though, so I’m sure there’s a market there.
Piefed /Lemmy for keeping up with topics.
GoToSocial for keeping up with people and how they are going.
Pixelfed for my dog pictures and other people's pets.
Peertube mostly for my family (dog or otherwise) videos.and subscriptions. I have around 40 now :)
Other than Lemmy/piefed, I self host everything on a very small server. It's fun if you like that kinda thing.
That’s totally awesome :D So GoToSocial, Pixelfed, and Peertube? Awesome!!! :D
Which one do you prefer, actually? Piefed, or Lemmy? What are the benefits and drawbacks of each? I’m really interested in all the threadiverse services.
That's a very good question. I don't have a good answer ATM. I have both because I'm on the fence.
Lemmy and piefed both scratch the topic discovery itch. Both are excellent software.
Piefed pros:
Lemmy pros:
Lemmy has an easier way to post than piefed. The selection of communities is a bit better. Piefed is much easier to stand up on home servers (I did it once). It's also seeing a large amount of dev work right now. And as I've said before it has much better fediverse integration than Lemmy. Lemmy has this issue where it's hard to federate with other services, even when you search using the search tool.
You know, you make it sound like Piefed is pretty strictly better! If the pros for Lemmy boil down to a larger user-base…
Well, I’ll definitely be checking it out! Thanks for the reply :D
Edit: Hilarious first impression.
<img alt="First impression Piefed" src="https://i.postimg.cc/bY7945vp/image.png">
Oh yeah filters! They are a thing. Works pretty well on piefed.
Do all filters have that 3 level system? Blocking all, most, or none of a certain topic? Because that is a Feature, capital F Feature.
Also, do you know of an alternative front-end for Piefed? I use alexandrite.app for Lemmy, there’s also phtn.app. Does Piefed have something like that?
It has front ends but it's inbuilt.
Hmmm, I see…
A port of Thunder has been made, ready for testing.
Yes - that Trump/Musk form is just a shortcut to setting up your own filter - the options on that form equate to 'hide completely', 'make semi-transparent' (so you can see the post, but it's faded out), or "don't set up a filter"
There's the one I made (the one linked to by OpenStars), but I think the more promising development is that the Interstellar dev has made some progress supporting PieFed too (Interstellar is already the only app that supports both MBIN and Lemmy, and I like the idea of one app for 3 different platforms).
I love Thunder for Lemmy, so I’m definitely interested in what you’re doing.
That being said, I think an app that could unite the threadiverse is really cool. Lemmy, Mbin, PieFed, all in one. That’s nice… I do have Interstellar installed, but I don’t really like it as of now.
Lemmy and Mastodon.
You can definitely find solid content outside of tech and politics on Mastodon, although the scope tends to be more limited than what Twitter used to be (no idea what state it is now).
Need to check out BookWyrm.
Bookwyrm is awesome :)
I think tags are under-utilized, to be honest. Follow #caturday and chill.
I tried it out about a year ago, but I think that sort of thing just isn’t for me.
I'm an Mbin user.
Mbin is a fork of kbin. Kbin's dev didn't really trust people much, so he wanted to have sole control over what code gets added to kbin. Which led to issues when he wasn't available and development just came to a halt for months because no one could accept changes anymore. The other devs wanted more control so they could actually get shit done, so they decided to fork the project instead.
I think the biggest difference is really the fact that you can subscribe to not just communities but also users. This is where the superior Mastodon compatibility comes into play by allowing us to see posts that don't mention communities. Lemmy only sees Mastodon posts if they mention a community explicitly or an Mbin user has interacted with it.
There's also other stuff like public upvotes, boosting, tags, reputation (karma), and custom community CSS. I don't really know Lemmy well enough to give a full list of where they differ.
The Fediverse is pretty cool… Hello, Mbin user!
Oh, that’s interesting.
Not sure what the point of public upvotes is, or what boosting is, but tags and custom CSS sounds cool. How’s my Mbin karma?! IDK if that’s how it works… I’ve signed up on your same instance, I’ll see how it goes.
Thank you for your comment!
<img alt="A screenshot" src="https://i.ibb.co/Z18NfbkZ/Screenshot-20250307-231437.png">
It's 2500~, but it doesn't affect anything on Mbin, so there's no point worrying about it
Thanks! Yeah, I have no idea how that’s even calculated or whatever so… If it doesn’t even affect anything, I don’t see why I would care lol
It's basically the same as Reddit karma, it's just the sum of upvotes+downvotes you got
Same, idc, but some people care about it. Also piefed cares, I think it puts a red icon in the username of the users with negative reputation and their posts start with 0 upvotes instead of 1. (If I'm not mistaken)
Meh, I suppose!!! Thanks for the info~ :D
There’s one difference: boosts give you +2 reputation points.
Well, you can see who upvoted something. kbin also allowed seeing downvotes, but that got removed because of worries about harassment.
By looking at who upvoted a specific post you liked, you can find like-minded people to follow. I also find it cool to see the different instances and platforms the upvotes come from.
Boosting is a bit complicated. It's supposed to be retweeting basically, and does work that way under the hood. Posts boosted from Mbin do appear that way from Mastodon. However, I don't think Mbin itself currently treats boosts as more than just an even more public upvote (with regular upvotes you can see who upvoted a post, not what posts a user upvoted; boosts are publically listed on profiles).
Hmm I see.
Not sure how much use I’d get of public upvotes, personally, but boosting/re-posting seems like a genuinely nice feature.
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Oh, that's what I meant. And Mbin calls it following too. I just said "subscribing" because it's the same action behind the scenes, just different terms to refer to it, and I was using "communities" first in the same sentence.
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Is there plans for an Mbin mobile app?
There's Interstellar which is made by the admin of my instance. I don't know if the Mbin devs have plans for their own official app.
I’m currently busy setting up my own Lemmy instance and PeerTube instance. Before the Fediverse, YT and Reddit were basically the only things I used, I was never a big fan of twitter-like social media. So those slot in nicely into those itches to scratch. (although there are still some creators I follow on YT, I have been watching it a lot less after getting serious with PeerTube)
Can you find a lot of content on PeerTube? What do you look for on there?
By now: Yeah, there are some nice creators on PeerTube. Overall, it feels a bit more like old YouTube, many more people just creating because they want to, instead of chasing fame, as well as bizarre and weird little videos here and there. One advantage of it: It has much better native embedding into Lemmy (at least on newer versions)!
Much like in other fedi-places, it’s work to curate your own feed instead of having algorithms feed you. I have ADHD, so usually, I have some video or something running on my second screen while working on other stuff, and whenever my attention is spent, I switch to there and scour the recent or trending feed (or new vids from subscribers) for something interesting to share and watch.
For anyone interested - I am always happy to plug !peertube@lemmy.world - we recently hit 200 subscribers and have been steadily growing. If you are looking for an instance to join, I am still tinkering with it, but mine is open to new applications for as long as the server resources allow.
Hmmm, I see… I’m interested in getting into PeerTube and dropping YT, partially, at least, so that’s good to know.
I see you talk about EU regulations in your instance. Is it hosted in the EU? If that’s the case, I’d love to join it! :D
Yupp, hosted in Finland over a German provider (Hetzner)
Well, I’m in there!!!
Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed and Peertube.
You’re a mime?! That’s so cool! :D
Yes i am! :-) thanks.
@gon
I am an instance administrator for three Friendica instances, Mastodon glitch-soc and Lemmy. I am also a moderator for three large Mastodon instances, Pixelfed and Flohmarkt...
Putting the software I use the most in the first place, I would say I use:
1) Mastodon, that is my historical account @informapirata (Mastodon is really immediate) and Friendica (the most complete experience even if less ergonomic)
2) Mastodon glitch-soc (immediate like Mastodon, but with formatting)
3) Lemmy (fast and with the best layout in the fediverse)
4) Peertube
6) Pixelfed, Mbin, Pleroma, Misskey, Piefed, Bonfire etc that I use mostly for testing
7) Flohmarkt that I started using only a few weeks ago
You’re deep into the Fediverse!
Flohmarkt is an interesting concept, I’ve heard of it before, but I don’t know much about.
@gon
Yes... 😅 "E il naufragar m'è dolce in questo mare... 🤣"
at the moment it is very little: it is almost touching for how basic it is in its functions! it even lacks the RSS feed which is a constant for almost all the software of the Fediverse... 😅
However I am convinced that it could have a very interesting development in the medium and long term
Oh boy… Well… I’ll keep tabs on it!
Maybe soon!!
Rebased
Mastodon
Akkoma
Soapbox
Lemmy
I also have Lotide accounts but I don’t use them very much. I also have an emergency alt on Nostr which federates via Mostr but IDK if y’all are counting that as being part of the Fediverse.
Also Kbin was superceded by Mbin
In random order
Loops
Peertube very sparingly. Youtube is still king.
Lemmy. Nuked my 14 year old Reddit account today. Lemmy is great.
Pixelfed
Mastodon
Wordpress if that is counted as federated
Gosh, I have to try out Loops…
NGL, I think Lemmy is better than Reddit. I enjoy it more. I can’t put my finger on why, though… They’re basically the same… Maybe it’s just a UI issue.
I can tell you why, it’s the absolutely shitty Reddit mobile app that’s filled with annoying ads. Meanwhile, Lemmy has some really good third-party apps
Well, no, it is not that… My Reddit app has no ads. I vanced it.
I don’t get ads on anything, nowadays. I can imagine how that might sour the experience tho.
The Lemmy apps are way better than the Reddit app tho, that’s for sure!
I do believe the type of people and lack of the karma system also makes it better. People do anything to get some karma.
Criiiinge…
It's an option for the blog owners to select, but it's more federated than Loops (which currently isn't federated at all). As a random example, here is a Wordpress blog post that was federated out to Mastodon, and then federated out to PieFed.
I did try to federate my blog to Mastodon. Haven’t made a post in a long time though, so I can’t tell if it works or not.
Mastodon and MakerTube
…And Lemmy?!
duh
I shan’t assume even the obvious!!!
Mastodon, via jorts.horse. I use it mainly to shitpost, and occasionally catch up on news.
PeerTube, via spectra.video. It was part of an effort to switch away from YouTube, but due to the abysymal discoverability, I am forced to concur that it hasn’t been doing well as a replacement. I now just use Grayjay to see videos, regardless of platforms.
For now, I use Lemmy via lemmy.cafe. However, when PieFed gets a stable app, I plan to switch over to it, probably via feddit.online.
Maybe I’ll try out Loops when it gains federation support.
Yeah, lots of people have been talking highly of PieFed.
Oh, no Fed yet?! Dang…
I mainly use Lemmy (infosec.pub) and I sometimes use Mastodon (mstdn.plus).
Lemmy and Matrix. And I don’t use Matrix a helluva lot.
Other than Lemmy, I’ve got a self-hosted and federated Matrix instance. I don’t actually do much with Matrix at the moment, it’s mostly the result of me tinkering with self-hosted services. I did recently bridge it to Discord, and I’ve let my friends know it’s a potential alternative if Discord continues going down the shitter.
How so? And what do you mean bridge Matrix to Discord?
Mostly referring to the recent rumblings about their potential IPO. Once shareholders get their hands on something, it’s all downhill.
Matrix supports “bridges” for a number of third party services so you can keep in contact with friends who haven’t made the transition to federated services.
Cool :D Thanks for the link, I’ll definitely be checking that out~
We’ll see I guess…
Lemmy, Sharkey (like Mastodon but with more features), and WAFRN (the fediverse’s Tumblr alternative)
Mastodon, Lemmy, Goto Social, Pixelfed, Bookwyrm.
Peertibes default no federation thing is too frustrating for me to deal with
I’ve been using Mastodon for eight years and got involved with hosting a small instance for some years now. Also running a Bookwyrm instance and, since a few days, this Lemmy instance which will remain single user most likely.
I have several more Mastodon accounts I’m switching between and inactive Pixelfed, GoToSocial and Friendica accounts.
You’re an evil person, keeping a name as cool as nocturnal garden all to yourself… Where has compassion gone? The world… The world is falling apart, one cool server-name at a time… /j
Hehe thanks! Not 100% decided yet but since it’s running on my homeserver and not some VPS I guess I won’t open except for friends maybe.
Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy and Bookwyrm. They all seem to cover most of my social media needs which (in all other cases beside Lemmy) can be described as shouting in the void and being happy if someone else is there too.
Yeah, I get this, to be honest.
Though, I do feel the same way with the centralized social media platforms. I mean, if I make a Tumblr post, I’m really not expecting people to see it. If I just Tweet, as opposed to Tweeting at someone, I don’t really expect engagement either… YT videos, Instagram posts… Unless my friends and family use the apps — which is another issue altogether, since I could try to get them to join — I just shouting in the void.
I think it’s the lack of theme. Lemmy makes you post with the theme of the community you post to, so it’s kind of implied that your posts will reach people that are interested in what you posted. That’s kind of how tags work on Mastodon and Twitter, I guess, but it’s not quite the same thing.
Forgive my ignorance but i dont see mention of Bluesky? I beleive thats also fediverse?
No, Bluesky is a centralized platform, literally twitter 2.0. The Fediverse’s main selling point is the opposite.
But there are different servers, similar to Lemmy?
AT protocol is different than Activity Pub. They do not allow instance control and freedom (you can t really call this federation) , it is not real decentralization if you dont allow users spinning their instances and federate with the rest.
It very much is not Fediverse. They use a federated protocol, but not ActivityPub, which is the Fediverse’s protocol. They use AT Protocol instead, and they’re the only thing using ATP, by the way… That should tell you everything about how “federated” they are.
While there are different servers, there’s a dependence on central nodes. The simple existence of central nodes is antithetical to decentralization… So we’re really not talking about the same thing at all here, with BlueSky vs the Fediverse.
Mostly Lemmy, but also Peertube, rarely Mastodon I also have accounts on other Fediverse services but I don’t use it
Mostly Hubzilla. Also (streams), WriteFreely and Lemmy for special purposes.