Do any of you use Lemmy or other federated services?

With all the Reddit-related drama lately I was wondering if any of you use or are considering using Lemmy or any similar federated service? I don't know if Lemmy would work as a full replacement for Reddit, but I think it might work for tech/FOSS-oriented communities.

If you use it, what instance are you signed up to? I thought BeeHaw looked good but I see they have defederated with a couple of other big instances which I guess would limit options for joining active communities.

I lurked Lemmy once or twice, haven't signed up for an account yet because I didn't see any communities that really stood out to me.

There's also tildes.net (which as far as I can tell has no significant connection to "tilde" in the pubnix sense). Stylistically they seem closer to classic Reddit but I haven't really given them a serious look yet, in no small part because they're in an invite-only mode right now and I'm not cool enough to get an invite lol.

I've poked at Mastodon a little but I've always hated the Twitter-esque "microblog" paradigm so it ultimately didn't interest me.

From what I've seen of Lemmy, I prefer kbin as a federated alternative to Reddit.

But to be honest, I wonder if federation really fits this style of communication. I never really got on with Reddit because it made communities feel somewhat homogenous. I think I prefer just having standalone forums, to be honest.

Unless those forums run Discourse. I'm really not a fan of Discourse.

I am  signed to the instance that is related to the subreddit of my 
country, that is named Brasil with s, but i dont use it

I believe that Reddit is working fine again! only NSFW were killed0

NSFW was really only a side issue. The bigger complaint is that they are charging a ridiculously high API fee beginning next month, and so a lot of third-party tools will be unable to afford to continue operating.

I tried Lemmy but I found it a bit confusing, and wasn't a big fan of the UI. Mastodon on the other hand, I have been using it for a while now, recently switched to a self-hosted Misskey instance which I've been enjoying quite a bit!

I use xmpp, matrix and email :-)