I use email.

Everyone is mentioning email. I also use the World Wide Web.

I use Mastodon and Pixelfed mainly. But I also have an account on Friendica and Loops.video, but I rarely use them. And does Matrix count?

Oh and I forgot about Funkwhale for putting your music collection online.

This is the only federated software that I use because it is the only one in a format I enjoy using. I liked reddit for the threaded forum kinda format, so lemmy was an easy transition.

Never liked facebook/twitter/instagram or those formats so no interest in a federated version of them. There could be something out there I would also like, but thst would require trying more things and I gave up after bouncing off a few.

I use :

microblog

• mastodon for political content as it allows me to avoid lenghty and tendious discussion with its 500 characters limit. But...i stopped using it for a while due to current news on climate change and fascism. And i'm not fan of its UI
• IceShrimp. I love its colorful UI. For me it one of the best UI on the fediverse. It also have a good balance between lenghty text and short one. It also support markdown. 3000 characters is enough

forumverse

• lemmy, it was good when we migrated from Reddit but over time i prefer PieFed.
• Mbin, i tried it but i dunno why i don't use it as much as Lemmy whereas there were much more functionalities and cool ideas.
• PieFed i'm starting to use it much more than Lemmy. There are plenty great ideas as downvote management, tags, poll, multicommu, support peertube and a.gup.pe. It is better each week.

Mastodon but not nearly as much as Lemmy.

Bookwyrm but not nearly as much as Mastodon.

I really wanted Bookwyrm to be more useful for me. But it’s really not geared towards what I want in keeping track of books. ymmv

I host: GotoSocial, Bookwyrm, Matrix, and a number of self hosted git related services (Radicle/Forgeo). Some awesome emulators of more modern game consoles are over on the federated git (not GitHub) nowadays.

I also made a UI that transforms mastodon to look more like lemmy/piefed/etc..., where hashtags are the communities. Its not really ready and very bare bones.

I have a funkwhale account. I wish I used it more.

Most of the above have an rss feed so thats how I keep up with it all.

the common stuff (email, telephone), mastdodon, mbin, loops and i have many more accounts

Sharkey. Piefed. Pixelfed. In order from most used to least used. I don't use Lemmy.

mbin fanboy

moooist babyyy

I use Lemmy and PeerTube. Host a version of both myself. I use Loops a little as well and will probably pick up Pixelfed at some point.

Mbin.

Mastodon on my pen name.

Piefed for the hell of it.

Used to use one of the "key" forks, but the instance I was on shut down, and I never went back.

Haven't really bothered with the rest because they don't fit any needs, and tend to be based around things that aren't my personal interests enough to use regularly. Peertube, I'll never put videos up, but I use it when other people link to it.

That's really it. I don't want/need the kind of services friendica is for, nor whatever the name of the Instagram clone is, and loops is totally not my thing.

I don't have anything against them, mind you, I just don't use those kind of platforms

Mastodon and Pixelfed. Mastodon is my main (Retro Gaiden) but I'm experimenting with the Fediverse to see what works for me and what doesn't.

Besides Mbin, I've been using Sharkey a lot. It's really nice! I also want to use Peertube and Owncast more.

Besides lemmy only pixelfed

Just Peertube. I've been orphaned from my Mastodon instance and I don't think I'm going to sign up for another one.

Mastodon. Lemmy is good for discussions, but Mastodon is more Twitter -like so you can follow friends and see what they're up to.

Matrix and Email :D

Matrix, XMPP, Mastodon, Lemmy,

Mastodon, but I've largely dropped it for Bluesky. I'm no purist about full decentralization, and I think it's enough that the latter both has users, and isn't currently awful.

I've used Bookwyrm a bit. I kinda like it. But it had some UX issues imo, and didn't keep me hooked.

Also tried Pixelfed. It's pretty slick, but I just can't see the point. Like Instagram, seeing a feed of just pictures wasn't all that interesting to me... though I probably just haven't followed the right accounts.

XMPP is great. Movim.eu is a nice webclient for it that also does macro-blogging.

Akkoma serves me well for the micro-blogging part of the Fediverse.

Misskey, as most of East Asian and SEA community are on there.

I don't use Lemmy, I am reading this post on MBin

This account is Mbin rather than Lemmy, and I've got another account on a Pleroma server for my microblogging. Thinking of trying Piefed, some of its features sound promising and it looks like development is going pretty rapidly, I may end up switching off Mbin.

Mastodon is my go-to "shout in the void about my goings-on" platform.

Pixelfed is where I post my original photography and artwork.

Bookwyrm is for my book nerdery, mostly.

Edit: Oh and I have a Matrix account but despite the fact that I mentioned it to literally all of my friends, nobody uses it. I keep it around in case someone actually wants to send me private messages because Mastodon is kinda badly suited for that.

In times past, when it was still thriving, I was an avid user of Usenet.

Matrix

I use Mastodon and Goblin

Excluding email, nope. Seeing as no one else in my friend group uses Federated services, and they're all still too small to cover most niches, there isn't really anything for me.

Matrix

I have recently started to explore Nostr.

Mastodon, Writefreely, Flohmarkt, Mobilizon all self-hosted

Tried them all, I think. Lemmy is the only one I like this far.

Mastodon, Lemmy, Peertube, Pixelfed. Soon, Owncast.

Mastodon and Sharkey (Misskey fork), though I use Sharkey much less.

I also have a Matrix account which is a different kind of Federated service (chat and instant messaging) though not Federated in the same way as Lemmy and Mastodon (uses a different federation protocol).

Nah that kind of thing isn't important to me unless the product is polished and as good as the original it's replacing including the amount of content available

"use" might be a stretch.

I have a mastodon account I check occasionally
I have a pixelfed account I use rarely
And a loops account I think I logged into once

Maybe make onboarding easier or the fediverse dies a slow death

But nah, why bother making it easy for users to join when you can just gatekeep everything into low engagement