I’m admittedly quite an amateur and don’t have the best understanding of the fediverse; I have a Mastodon account and a Misskey account, and was planning on making a Pleroma account as well. However, it seems like they’re all connected; was it redundant to join Mastodon and Misskey? And in that case, should I not make a Pleroma? Or is there any benefit to having one of each?
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some different features, but well, it’s all pretty similar (all for microblogging). I hate managing different accounts so I just use one. just use what you like the most. you can follow everyone still.
Test all you want and then choose the best for you. Or keep using all of them if you wish. By the way, yes, it’s kinda redundant.
I agree with the spirit but also a little reminder that if you want to use these apps on your smartphone we have a limited support for good foss stuff.
@yourliftingfriend They’re pretty much the same thing.
@ @MadScientist@sopuli.xyz I know very little about misskey. Why should someone use misskey over like mastodon?
I can’t see your comment on my instance
I really like the look of its default web frontend. The UI is also uniquely customizable so you can do a lot of cool stuff with it. It has cool widgets and stuff too.
I also like how instead of likes you only have emoji reactions, so interactions are much more meaningful instead of mindlessly pressing the like button on everything. Likes from people on mastodon and such are turned into the star emoji, so it still connects well.
There’s also the drive, which is suuuper useful. basically you have your own little storage space to keep some files, and whenever you want to share them you can do so directly from the drive instead of reuploading each time. it’s best for easily resusing memes. It also has facebook-style albums with this but i very rarely use that.
lastly there’s antennas, which are very customizable feeds. like you can have the default followed feed, plus a separate antenna for personal stuff from your friends, plus another one for news. i don’t really use antennas though because i don’t have many people to follow in the first place, so don’t really need to separate them.
i love that misskey tries to innovate and add new features that make social media a better experience, instead of just doing “twitter but with freedom” like other fediverse software. even if twitter itself became federated, open source, and completely freed from corporate shackles, i’d still stick with misskey, and i think that’s the kind of platform that will really get people to switch.
I like to see new ideas instead of copy-paste centralized counterparts, it would be nice to read more detailed comparison between Fediverse apps. I’ve also read good stuff on Pleroma since (looks like) it maintain high quality on media uploads.