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What Fediverse services do you use? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/57576884

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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not sure what the point of public upvotes is,

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).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

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.