I like Lemmy. Active development, lots of third party apps, active community, etc but what other Fediverse projects are worth getting into like this one?

For microblogging (Twitter), I know Mastodon is really popular but there are so many other microblogging options like Pleroma, Misskey, FireFish, etc that I don't know which one is really worth getting into (as a user, dev, or admin). Are any of these on par with Lemmy?

For video, there's PeerTube. The content isn't great at all and most servers struggle to pay bills. I think the YouTube replacement is a looong way to go.

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[–] heygooberman@lemmy.today 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're absolutely right about PeerTube. However, given the recent decisions made by YouTube and its parent company on adblocking, I think we might see a surge in PeerTube content and development soon.

One thing I have noticed in the past year is that whenever Big Tech services become compromised or make controversial decisions, the Fediverse equivalent starts to bloom. I joined Mastodon and Lemmy earlier this year because of the controversies surrounding X and Reddit. Now that YouTube has done the same, I think we will soon see a "great migration" to PeerTube.

Just my two cents.

[–] exelica@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

I never had that problem with adblocking. It still works for me (Windows, Ublock, Firefox). The content on PeerTube isn't on par with YouTube and there isn't a financial incentive for the entertaining creators to move to PeerTube

[–] Kyyrypyy@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

There is also "Owncast", but it seems to suffer from the same issue that peertube does; there is no integrated revenue system for the streamer, so there is little reason to put effort in to the quality, as well as it being fairly unknown, so even if you set up donos etc. the audience isn't there.

The discoverability don't help, since there isn't really s good way to filter out all the "24/7 radio" -streams, so even if you actively follow the frontpage, or a category, you have to skim trough them manually. Also, there is no proper language filter (at least if you don't have an account), and it seems it's more popular with non-english speaking streamers.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

As a user: Pixelfed is a nice replacement for Instagram. It's very clean and it captures what Instagram used to be years ago

It just needs users. Right now I'm following artists and creatives

[–] Bebo@literature.cafe 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are there mobile apps for pixelfed?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yep! An official app and a few third party ones

https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps

The mobile site works fairly well if you don't want an appa

[–] Bebo@literature.cafe 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's good. What are your favourite apps that you would recommend?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

I haven't tried that many of them, and I stuck with the official app because it felt the most familiar (feels like instagram)

So out of the ones I've tried, I'd recommend either the official app or the mobile site as they're more likely to have the latest features. Pixelfed's dev has been super fast with the improvements so it might be worth it?

[–] Crul@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I tried Pixelfed (very briefly) not so long ago. I didn't find a propper way to search for content. How do you discover new content?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I started with the 'Discover' page for some stuff, but I think I found most things by searching relevant hashtags. Once I had a few people followed, I also took a peek at who was resharing/liking/commenting to find more people. I haven't used it THAT much yet, but there's enough content to scroll through every now and then

[–] Crul@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks!

[–] heyazorin@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Pixelfed has a very nice webapp. If you don't like the official one, install it from web on your phone.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've been enjoying Firefish for my Mastodon content. I like the extra features and interface better than stock Mastodon.

Though, unless I just can't find it, there doesn't appear to be any way to follow a hashtag on Firefish, which is a bit of a bummer. The antenna feature is alright at filling in this gap, but it's not perfect.

Firefish works mostly okay with third-party apps, but none of them seem to be able to do some of the more advanced features like the live, auto-refreshing feeds, which is a feature I rather enjoy. So I've been pretty content with just using the PWA on my phone for the time being. The mobile interface is solid enough that I don't feel a strong need for a dedicated app just quite yet. Notifications can be delayed by a few minutes, but I can tolerate that.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

Though, unless I just can’t find it, there doesn’t appear to be any way to follow a hashtag on Firefish, which is a bit of a bummer. The antenna feature is alright at filling in this gap, but it’s not perfect.

To be fair, most people don't seem to tag their content anyway, so I guess antennas are just as effective

[–] ContentConsumer9999@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Nobody in this thread seems to have mentioned #Kbin. It's an instance that aims to combine the #microblog structure of instances like Mastodon with the thread structure of instances like Lemmy.

[–] 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Takahē is looking for new maintainers. It's a microblogging server in the beginning stages of development. As far as I know, there aren't many (if any) instances outside the main development instance.

idkfa is a new fediverse project from ted unangst, who is the creator of honk (another AP microblogging project)