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Very neat, thanks for sharing! What do the dotted lines between non-Fediverse protocols and Fediverse platforms represent? Do those platforms use multiple protocols?
Do those platforms use multiple protocols?
Yes
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What are the common attributes between each app that allows them to be federated with each other? Users, a post with multimedia support (images, links, maybe videos), a comment thread, and what else? Can an app deviate completely from this user/post/comment model and still be federated? Do each app need to manually integrate with another app to be considered federated or is any app using ActivityPub automatically integrated to your app?
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Here's a list of 130: https://the-federation.info/#projects
One I like not mentioned so far is bookwyrm, which is like a federated goodreads (track books you're reading, review them, read other's reviews).
Edit: the flagship instance is https://bookwyrm.social
I think it's worth noting that Mastodon is by far the most mature. Everything else is buggy and may not always work the way you might expect but I think many are still worth using if you can put up with the quirks.
Also worth noting that BookWyrm can import your books from a GoodReads export, so you can try it without risking much.
Akkoma is also very stable and much faster than Mastodon.
Still not sure what this is supposed to do based on the site? It's some kind of all-in-one fediverse thing? Doesn't help that they reference a ton of federated services that I've never heard of in the website
Ya that website is totally useless if you don't already know what Pleroma is, it explains what the fediverse is like 4 times but never explains how the app integrates with it lol
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And it's much easier to run (less resources) and easily accepts multiple frontend UIs.
I just found Bookwyrm and love it! Now that's a great idea for a federated site.
is there any android app for bookwyrm?
Yes and no. Yes an app exists, but it's not official, and the app is only a wrapper for the website. It may be better to "install" the website to your home screen using the option in your browser.
If you want to check it out, it's not on Google Play, but you can get it on F-Droid if you have it, otherwise you can install the APK directly by downloading it here.
My favorite is PixelFed. I'm an artist, so Instagram was important for me, but for a few years now it's absolutely terrible (no reach at all with their special algorithms). PixelFed fixes all that, it replicates the feeling of IG as it was 8-10 years ago: chronological feed, tag-based, no extraneous features. I'm really enjoying it, as I can finally grow again my followship as an artist: https://pixelfed.org/
Bonus points for lack of normies posting crappy reels
How can I find you there ? I joined not long ago and I lack interesting people to follow. Also, curious to see your work :)
Any great FOSS apps for that one yet?:)
the official app works great on Android
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Do you have any suggestions as to how to find people on there? I have it installed and am trying it out, but I'm running into a lot of the same problems I was having on Mastodon; it seems difficult to discover engaging content.
Is there interoperability between pixel fed and lemmy at all? I'm so sick of Instagram, this piques my interest
PixelFed is federated Instagram!
Thanks thatβs exactly what Iβm looking for!
@QuantumEyetanglement @Pickle_Jr If you mention Pixelfield than mention their pet project https://fedidb.org/
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PeerTube, basically a federated YouTube-like
I looked at it and have no idea where or how to start as a creator. It's a badly federated mess as far as I can tell. Hope it improved eventually.
Why do you think it's badly federated? I've never been unable to find my peertube account from anywhere I've tried - Mastodon, Firefish, Friendica, Pixelfed, or Lemmy.
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Peertube is a relatively popular federated-decentralized video platform, a couple of serious youtuber even have a mirror set there. But if you look for a place to share informal video with or without personal data it's better place than youtube (When reddit r/guitar had the weekly* first take challenge* I uploaded a few video on peertube because I don't want to tell google or the world about my bad but fun attempt jamming a guitar for an online challenge)
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Pixelfed is a photo sharing app, I have an account there but don't use it as I am not that much in photography, They do even have an instance dedicated to artists
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I heard about Calckey/Firefish/Misskey but not really sure what's the benefit over Mastodon
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Diaspora* is the great old one of federated social network last time I opened it it was full of conspiracy nuts
Misskey has more features than mastodon, and firefish is a tweaked misskey fork with saner defaults, more tweaks and made by a furry
I don't think it's federated but Matrix is decentralized
Federated under ActivityPub, no. But individual matrix home servers can federated with one another, so in that way yes.
Owncast, a live video streaming platform, has fediverse integration.
What's the difference between Owncast, and Peertube's livestreaming function?
Owncast is streaming only, PeerTube has streaming as a feature. If you're only looking to stream, run Owncast. It's lighter on resource usage, easier to set up, fewer moving parts. If you want video hosting with maybe streaming as a bonus, you want PeerTube.
Friendica: fediverse facebook
Calckey and Firefish: Mastodon but with extra bells and whistles like the ability to use emotes in place of likes.
Calckey and Firefish: Mastodon but with extra bells and whistles like the ability to use emotes in place of likes.
The Firefish interface is also waaaaaay better than Mastodon's. Mastodon feels so archaic, but Firefish actually has a very engaging UI that makes exploring the platform actually fun.
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And Firefish has so many more bells and whistles than that! Full-text search, antennas, quotes, drive, pages, channels, MFM.
Misskey and Firefish
They are microblogs like Mastodon but with much more functions.
Services or applications. An instance is just a server.
Bu yeah, there are a lot more than those! See here
Nostr. It's a decentralized protocol working with relays and no instances.
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Here are a handful with descriptions. If you're interested in the wider fediverse explore that fedi.tips site.
Fediverse.info Tildeverse.org
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