I use :

microblog

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

forumverse

• lemmy, it was good when we nigrated 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, tag, poll, multicommu, support peertube and a.gup.pe. It is better each week.