I’ll go first…

My favorite Fediverse platforms as of 2024

  1. Mastodon - my main social feed platform that first introduced me to the Fediverse in general.

  2. Lemmy - my second main social feed platform that originally substituted Reddit from years ago.

  3. Matrix protocol - communication platform I use to connect with users on the Lemmy instance I’m on

  4. Peertube - would love to get an account going and use it more often but still don’t know how but there’s FediVideo.

  5. Bookwyrm - Goodreads alternative that I signed up for that could use more work for a genuine reading tracker.

BONUS: my least favorite Fediverse platform lately

WordPress - because I used to run art blogs on there before I heard word about drama about the CEO of the corporation so I basically had to put out my last existing art blog…RIP.

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
      2·
      40 minutes ago

      On the other hand, it has some weirdly opinionated features:

      • Hiding downvoted comments (mob rule)
      • Marking people with many downvotes as “low reputation”. I get it, getting many downvotes is a bad sign but I don’t think the software should try to make a ruling here, I think human moderators should look at the whole picture. It doesn’t make you a bad person that people disagree with you.
      • Communities organized into “topics” - I’m not certain if these groupings are decided by the dev or the admin? Either way I find it a bit problematic.
      • Marking certain communities as “low effort” and not counting “reputation” for those. I don’t feel like the software should be making this kind of value judgement.
    • tron@midwest.socialEnglish
      4·
      9 hours ago

      I looked thru this blog hopeful that there would be protection against mod abuse. Instead you can get banned for downvoting? I don’t want to be looking over my back because some dipshit mod had a bad take. This is generating way too much analytical data on users. Communities don’t need empowered super mods treating users like numbers on a spreadsheet. Lemmy for sure has problems (ml) but this isn’t the answer.

      • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        Lemmy admins can already see who downvotes what, I’m sure they already ban accounts who systematically downvote their communities content

        It’s a tool. If some admins power trip, well report them on [email protected]

        • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          33 minutes ago

          Mods can also see votes in communities they moderate, lemmy-ui just doesn’t show the option (and no other client, to my knowledge, has the feature).

      • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        5 hours ago

        It doesn’t need to be the answer. It just needs to be an answer for certain use cases. Both platforms can easily coexist. That’s the beauty of federation.

      • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
        5·
        6 hours ago

        PieFed communicates with Lemmy. Same content, different platform. That’s one awesome thing about federation.

        There is also mbin (fork of kbin), and Sublinks, which is API compatible with Lemmy so should be able to use Lemmy apps with it (from memory, this is what Beehaw are hoping to move to).