PieFed fully covers Lemmy/Mbin and Mastodon/the microblogging parts of the Fediverse, maybe also Pixelfed/image-posting.

Friendica should be able to cover microblogging (Mastodon, Misskey etc.), the Threadiverse (Lemmy, PieFed etc.), images (Pixelfed, Vernissage etc.) as well as fully-featured long-form blogging (WordPress, WriteFreely, Ghost etc.). In fact, you can even have groups on Friendica, but I’m not sure if and how well Lemmy, Mbin and PieFed users can subscribe to them.

The only reason to have a PieFed account next to a Friendica account is if you discover that you can’t send new posts to Lemmy communities, Mbin magazines or PieFed communities from Friendica. (It happens to be somewhere between difficult and impossible from Hubzilla, by the way.)

If you want to follow PeerTube channels and comment on PeerTube videos, you definitely don’t need a PeerTube account. You can do that from just about everywhere. You only need a PeerTube account if you want to post videos yourself. You can upload videos to Friendica and embed them into posts, but you really shouldn’t because Friendica isn’t made for streaming big hi-res videos to a whole bunch of users simultaneously.

Likewise with Castopod and podcasts. Or with Owncast and video streams. Or with Funkwhale or Bandwagon and music.

Other things may be trickier. Friendica has an event calendar, but I don’t think it’s as capable of handling and editing Mobilizon calendars as Mobilizon itself.

I didn’t think that Matrix was considered part of the fediverse? Lemmy and Piefed are redundant since their core functionality is very similar, unless the two accounts are to segment your online personas, like politics, NSFW, and everything else. I had never heard of vutuv until now.

Many fediverse platforms do have specialized functionality so it’s beneficial to open an account for them specifically. Here’s a good reference article with guidelines: https://fedi.tips/using-multiple-accounts-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

You pretty much have to, yeah. Each platform has its own optimizations for its type of content, like Loops specializes in videos and the Threadiverse in link aggregation or text and pics.

That said, you can check out Mbin to at least lessen the number of accounts somewhat: it looks to me too focused on the needs of microblogging (e.g. longer titles that even span multiple lines), and last I checked had an enormous amount of wasted space for more Threadiverse style content (with tiny titles, perhaps a single word even). Although even noticing that could make you feel better about creating a new account for each service:-). It just goes with the territory.

Likewise, PieFed allows integration with Friendica and is expanding upon tighter integration with Mastodon… but it is primarily optimized for integration with Lemmy-style content more than anything else.

I have three accounts currently. One on piefed, one on a regional lemmy account and one for porn. Nothing wrong having multiple accounts to see what you like

Now I wonder if I should really register a new account for each service. May I ask for your advice? What do you recommend?

Do you get any benefits from the accounts? You can subscribe to Lemmy communities from Piefed and vice versa. Piefed can now follow Mastodon users iirc. So do you get any benefits from having accounts on both Lemmy and Piefed separately? Are there other benefits to a Friendica account for you than following Mastodon accounts?

That’s the important question really. If they don’t have anything to offer to you that the others already provide, then you don’t need that account.

As many as you want; the est practice is to link to your other accounts in the profile, though.

For each service that you use regular you should at least have two accounts. Just in case the service goes down or has other issues.

No offense, but sounds like you’re trading one social media addiction for another. If you’re just checking them out, why even make an account? I thought the whole point of the fediverse was to use an account and go across services? I’ve seen piefed stuff on Lemmy and iirc, mastadon too.

“Should”? That’s really only for you to determine. I get why you want to try them out one by one, like using Piefed and Lemmy in parallel. It gives you a chance to weigh pros and cons of different services, or different ways to interact with them.

Vutuv… again, it’s your choice, but for me, LinkedIn turned me completely off professional networking. I’m going to wait that one out to be sure it isn’t flooded with the same icky performance measuring jargon before I even consider joining. Also, Vutuv looks vibe coded, so another big nope for me.

I think you’re being generous counting Matrix in the Fediverse, though. It may be decentralised, but unless there are some bridges I’m not aware of, it doesn’t really communicate with any fediverse services?

As much as you want

Friendica is nice, I like using it to follow all lemmy communities id subscribe to, I like how posts and comments show up in the feed, plus you can be snoopy and see who dislikes what