i don’t have an internet-connected phone, so it’s pc browser only. i have a few /c/ i look at and then all sorted by new. i use one instance at home and a different one at the office.

I use retrolemmy.com on a browser on a mobile. Though, I’ve used some of front-ends for mobile such as Jerboa, Thunder, Eternity, etc. but I encountered network issues so I switched back to using browser.

I started on lemmy.sdf.org because of the zero blocked/blocked by, and I stayed because it’s a cool organisation and the instance community is really happening.

I use the browser frontend, but always over Tor Browser, which I guess is semi-weird.

Uh, reddthat.com on a browser. It was just the first thing I signed up for. (And I should admit that I don’t understand most of what you said. 😁)

piefed on browser.

I use Summit on mobile because the dev included all my feature requests, so it’s an app built for me, at least for the features I use. They’re a very active developer, and it will hopefully stick around for a long time. On a real computer, I just use the plain website. I do most of my stuff on mobile so I can save drafts. I prep most of my posts ahead of time and I tend to write long things.

I’ve stuck with lemmy.world because they’re big. I don’t want my stuff to just up and disappear one day. I’ve got a lot invested here, content wise, and the .world admin have been really nice to me in the handful of times I’ve interacted with them and they’ve supported me in my real life activities pertaining to wildlife.

I’m primarily here to post owl related educational content and animal rehab stories. It started out of curiosity and now thanks to regularly posting here, I became a rehab volunteer last year.

I’ll also post to news and politics posts if I feel I have something useful to add, but with world events getting worse, those communities get a bit too angry sometimes and I stay out.

When I don’t have owl questions to answer, I scroll by Top 6 Hours so there’s a chance people will still reply to my comments. I ignore the ragebait and find I still get juuuust enough content I don’t feel oversaturated.

sh.itjust.works here. I like trying different things. As you may have guessed from my username, this is my 3rd incarnation.

My first one was .ml solely because it was high on the popularity list. Didn’t know what I was getting into, and I didn’t stay for long.

Second one was feddit.nl, and it was alright. Some people kept assuming I was Dutch, but I’ve been called worse things, so idc.

For no particular reason I decided to move again, and I ended up on SJW after someone recommended it. My only real requirement for my next instance was that I refuse to activate my account via email. The admins were nice enough to activate my account manually after I proved that I wasn’t a bot. Plus I guess having a post history documenting that I’m not that much of a scumbag helps.

I’ve been here pretty long now, and I guess it’s time to instance hop again, but I have no real reason to, and to be frank, I’m not sure I can be arsed setting up my filters and blocks again.

Why? I gay :(

How? Scroll scroll, read, comment, scroll, downvote, grrrrrr

Fediverse because no big tech and/or no profit driven/informed platform management.

Instance: [email protected] because “:3” (read: non hostile environment for LGBTQIA+)

Access: through browser, both on smartphone and PC.

Fediscroll: when I feel lonely ( [email protected] ) or inspired ( [email protected] ) or want to learn something ( [email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected] )

feddit.uk

Why?

Because tea. Because full English breakfast. Because of decency and orderly queuing. Because of a searing sense of guilt over the evils of our empire and the human suffering our ancestors caused, because of the British Expeditionary force, Agincourt, Dunkirk, the battle of Britain, two fingers stuck up to Hitler, because of sarcasm, self deprecation and Watney’s Red Barrel and the empire that never sets on the sun, because of Boudicca and black pudding and single malt whisky and most of us being able to say ‘bottle’ rather than our American chums who say ‘boddle’, because of Shakespeare, Christie, Wodehouse, (but fuck Rowling), because of Douglas Adams and Michael Moorcock, Tolkien, Carroll, Defoe, the Brontes and all that lot, wandering lonely ,etc., etc., Byron, Shelley, Frankenstein, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Who, Carry On films, Ealing Comedies, Hammer horror, the Cornetto trilogy, because of the Beatles and the Stones, Pink Floyd, and Alabama 3, and heavy metal, and punk, and goth (“Hey now, hey now now!”), the Magna Carta, Taskmaster and Python, the Goodies, Eric Morecambe, Ronnie Barker, Porridge, Fools, Horses, Red Dwarf, HIGNFY, Sapphire and Steel, modern surveying and mapping techniques, that Darwin chap, gravity, Nigella Lawson, the business suit (sorry anout that), fish and chips, chip butties, (Yorkshire) fishcake butties, the sandwich, country houses, the ha-ha, afternoon tea, fights over whether it’s scone or scone, whether the cream goes on first or the jam, the industrial revolution, trains, David Attenborough and James Bond, the BBC, the BLT, the NHS, the RAF, HP sauce, knowing how to say ‘Worcestershire’ and ‘Edinburgh’, Hendo’s Relish, gin and tonic, English mustard, salt and vinegar everything, ploughman’s lunch, because of Mark and Lard, because of prawn jalfrezi, half rice, half chips, and a pint of mild, because of best bitter, marmalade, cider, Wimbledon, the snooker at the Crucible, Formula 1, because of a deep-seated shame at Brexit and the rise of a cunt like Farage, because of calling people gormless cunts or fucking wombles or tosspots or feckless wankers or bellends or just twatty McBallbag, because of Bletchley Park, Tower Bridge and Stone ‘enge, because of football, rugby, cricket, and golf, because of Top Gear and the Great British Bake-Off and TV shows which are cool but sometimes problematic, because of generally trying to do the right thing but all too often being too little, too late, because of nil points at the Eurovision Song Contest, because of endless optimism every time there’s a World Cup and spaffing that hope up the wall…

Because I care enough to have written all of this.

I’m using Mbin, website only. I’m not an app person at all. Which is ironic, considering the instance I’m on was created as a pilot for the app iirc.

Why Mbin? There’s many reasons, but the most practically important one is that I can follow users, not just communities. This gives me a direct means to receive posts from Mastodon, unlike Lemmy users who have to rely on Mastodon posts mentioning a community explicitly. But Piefed does have that on their roadmap iirc, there’s other reasons too why I prefer Mbin.

Mbin lets me “loud” subscribe to communities and users, which means I get notified of any new posts by them. I don’t know if Piefed and Lemmy have the same functionality, they probably do under a different name? Anyway, I usually “consume”, for lack of a better word coming to mind, the fediverse only via the feed from my loud subscriptions. I rarely browse manually. For when I do, I have infinite scrolling disabled.

One thing I like to do that isn’t really possible as easily on Lemmy and Piefed is to check who upvoted and/or boosted my comments. It’s really cool when I’m able to recognize someone. Helps the sense of community here too imo and makes people more memorable.

PS: I can’t remember if these posts in anyway get federated out to other platforms like mastodon or what not, but would still be interested in their respective answers too

If asklemmy is followed from Mastodon, the post is federated. However how discoverable it is depends on whether Lemmy lets you attach hashtags (and whether you’ve done so).

Let’s see. Went with dbzer0 because I liked some things about them. Some things are weird but not disagreeable or offensive. I like how they’re mostly for freedom of speech and I feel they’re mostly like minded individuals. Just felt it was a good fit. Maybe not for everyone though.

I use Mlem on my phone and I just use the browser (Safari) on my computer. I’m a longtime Firefox user, but Firefox and Lemmy don’t get along well. Always runs like shit here; Safari doesn’t and I don’t hate it. It’s not like Edge on a Windows machine, which I couldn’t do.

I browse /all, sub to comms that interest me and block ones I never wanna see. Like it’s not personal, I browse /all to see what’s there but some stuff I just don’t wanna see. So I don’t.

Lastly, there’s my personal disengage policy. Not to be confused with dbzer0’s. Basically I don’t engage with vitriol, and if a conversation heads that way, depending on my mood, I’ll try to turn it back towards civility, or simply ignore. No block, no downvote, I just walk away and let them have the last word.

I use the Reddthat instance because it was un-intrusive to set up an account. You don’t even need an email to set up an account, just username and password like the good ol’ days.

Scroll new/all (with a well-prepared blocklist) so relatively agnostic towards the instance, the only thing I focus on is trying to find one least likely to fold in a month when the group running it realize that spam/bots/costs need to be taken into consideration.

Piefed, since it’s such a more polished experience compared to Lemmy.

I’ve given Mastodon, Loops and Pixelfed many chances but they never provide content that holds my interest.

Just to explore, lonely I guess too. I just use piefed in the browser (FF) from piefed.world. I should join a less general instance I suppose that aligns with myself a bit more but I am lazy. I also did too much venting posting on this one and want to turn a new leaf lol. I haven’t tried any mobile clients yet actually, I’m using my phone as little as possible these days. I just pop in now and then throughout the day.