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Started on Mastodon around the time of Elon announcing he would buy Twitter last spring.

Instantly randomized all account data, archived my content, requested right to be forgotten, and deleted my account. (I don't care about him or his politics, I just didn't think he would run Twitter well, and that proved to be correct).

As for Reddit, like others, Lemmy. I started with KBin after FediTips recommended it, but I can't stand it due to the “OSFA” approach of mixing Twitter/Reddit.

As for YouTube, I don't/can't. Though, I do use my own private Invid/Piped server.

Overall, I can't say I miss any of the mainstream services. Though we've had a massive Redditor influx on Lemmy after the API did shut off for many apps, I still find the content in specific communities, much higher than that of Reddit with its memes, bots, and power hungry mods.

I like that on Lemmy, everything everyone does is public, so you can see if a company is astroturfing or if a person is a troll; while there are privacy concerns (I take privacy extremely seriously with email aliases, phone aliases, VPNs or Proxy when applicable) with having everything public, but as long as you don't use your real name or anything linked backed to you, I'd say you're fine.

By having everything visible, I feel like it makes the community much more open and transparent than that of Reddit, Twitter, etc.

@zn Vulcan did, years ago during first #TwitterMigration

Those platforms are #Mastodon and #PeerTube

Honestly no, I'm waiting for it to come to me. I was promised eventual inter-operability with a lot of it from my one account, and I like the simple format of Lemmy, so I'm waiting until I can access stuff like Mastodon content from here.

Yes.

Went to Mastodon after Twitter got bought by Elon. Don't really care for the whole "He's a Nazi" stuff, mainly intrigued that corporate-free social media even existed. I was attracted by the no ad policy 😜 Since then I wouldn't say I was e erywhere, but I have embraced #IndieWeb principles by making sure I was on platforms I can easily switch from. For eg, moved my website from Squarespace to WordPress.com cos it can connect with the Fediverse. (comments on my Mastodon can appear on the related blog post for eg).

In the future it is said that WordPress and Tumblr will connect to Activity Pub. Still waiting 😆

Stumbled exploring fediverse (\lemmy.ml account interacting \monyet.cc alternate universe).

Anyway, how to make everything visible to my this \lemmy.ml account? (From here, sleep walking into more alternate universe)

Haven't yet, because this format is what i tend to prefer when choosing social media. Pixelfed got me interest tho

I'm everywhere on the fediverse. Mastodon, peertube, Lemmy, even Matrix and xmpp and nostr.

I realized a couple years back that we can't trust big tech even to do the basics like send messages from point a to point b, at that point I have no use for them anymore.

dunno how tbh