Applications, social media interfaces, instances, I’m not sure what the correct word is 😅.
Pretty much title!
Very neat, thanks for sharing! What do the dotted lines between non-Fediverse protocols and Fediverse platforms represent? Do those platforms use multiple protocols?
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Do those platforms use multiple protocols?
Yes
Im not sure, I just found it on wikipedia
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?
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?
ActivityPub provides the framework, but a platform also has to be designed to support another platform. It’s not automatic.
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/
How can I find you there ? I joined not long ago and I lack interesting people to follow. Also, curious to see your work :)
Thank you!!! Here is my art account: https://pixelfed.social/EugeniaLoli
Thanks, found you. Nice work you’re doing. I’m new so I don’t have much to feature, but I hope you’ll like my photos :)
Is there interoperability between pixel fed and lemmy at all? I’m so sick of Instagram, this piques my interest
There is interoperability between PixelFed and Mastodon for sure. I often get a lot of likes from there, rather than PixelFed itself.
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.
You can follow me if you like book illustration art: https://pixelfed.social/EugeniaLoli Another way, is to search for tags. For example, if you like fishing, you search for that tag, and then you find ppl that post interesting fishing stuff.
So much good photos on there no generic popular spam crap like you get on Instagram
PixelFed is federated Instagram!
Thanks that’s exactly what I’m looking for!
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Because everyone uses the internet exactly like you do. :)
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The point is that someone wanted to make it, and then made it. It doesn’t have to have billions of users to have been fun to make, or even to have reasons for existing. Pixelfed needs a few people to want to use it to keep existing. Instagram needs all of you + your data. And once it inevitably does something people are unhappy with, Pixelfed will be there. And once the service people will somehow find themselves on after Instagram does the same, Pixelfed will probably still be there, then. As long as one person is interested in running an instance/updating the software/either of those two, it will keep existing. People used to, and still do, post pics on their website. What’s the point of that? People who have friends on Instagram will stay on Instagram. People who have friends on Pixelfed/Fedi as a whole, will probably keep using Fedi. It’s not an all or nothing game.
It’s called the Network Effect. Most people, like you, want to be on the platform that everyone else is using. Others want to be on the “best” platform (whatever that means for them) and when they find one they like, they’ll start advertising it to others. Eventually, enough people will move to a new platform that it starts making sense for people like you to move there as well.
Remember how everyone used to be on ICQ, then MSN Messenger, etc? It used to happen a lot with messaging and social media platforms until Facebook and Twitter got big enough to start buying and shutting down the competition. It’s happening now with people leaving Reddit for Fediverse platforms like Kbin and Lemmy.
There is nothing wrong with waiting for the Network Effect to push you to a new platform, if it ever does. The point of social media is being social - if you’re there to interact with friends, you obviously want to be where your friends are.
Getting a teeny bit slammed for your comment, but I think the simpler answer is: you probably wouldn’t. If instagram is working for you and yours, then I’d imagine you’ll stay there. That’s totally fine. This is a thread about federated alternatives, though, so the overall subject may not apply to you.
I like pixelfed because a) it doesn’t have ads for 2/3 of the content, b) it doesn’t have reels (which IMO go against the entire point of instagram to begin with), and c) I’m specifically not looking for pictures of my friends. For me, instagram is a platform for discovering art from other people. It still works for that, but there’s so much other stuff on there getting in the way. Pixelfed is “back to basics” for what I’m looking for in an art sharing platform.
Guys the real place to look is https://fedidb.org/software
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.
You have to find an instance that allows signing up, then you can create an account there
Recommended android app?
newpipe.net supports peertube.
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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
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Something that’s often overlooked as being federated: Nextcloud.
How exactly does federation on Nextcloud work? I use a hosted Nextcloud instance but it’s just an OneDrive alternative for me.
I think it’s through the nextcloud social app, I haven’t installed it though because my nextcloud is slow enough without it
Edit: just checked and it has mostly negative reviews and it’s listed as beta
Why is nextcloud soo slow?? Is it just bloated?
I have no idea. I’m using the fpm docker image with a redis container and it’s still slow as shit. I haven’t looked at APCu though so that might help.
It’s just an incredible pain to set up, I’d quite like to know it’s not going to run like shit if I go through all that effort ha!
I don’t think it’s federated but Matrix is decentralized
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.
Yeah, I like the Firefish interface a lot more. I was able to follow the handful of people I followed on Mastodon seamlessly. Everything just looks better IMO.
There’s Bookwyrm which is a Federated version of GoodReads.
Services or applications. An instance is just a server.
Bu yeah, there are a lot more than those! See here
Misskey and Firefish
They are microblogs like Mastodon but with much more functions.They still communicate with Mastodon instances, I suppose ? it’s all ActivityPub ? What kind of functions do they have ?
Here are a handful with descriptions. If you’re interested in the wider fediverse explore that fedi.tips site.