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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Im not sure, I just found it on wikipedia
Do those platforms use multiple protocols?
Yes
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 :)
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.
Any great FOSS apps for that one yet?:)
Hm, is there a play store link? I’m not sure how to put an app on my phone that’s not from the playstore
Don’t know about Pixelfed specifically (dont have it installed) but you can get FDroid from the play store and then use it to install other packages not approved by googul
but you can get FDroid from the play store and then use it to install other packages not approved by googul
Where do you live where F-Droid is in the Play Store? In the US, you have to download the apk from the F-Droid website.
France… , didn’t know that. Probably antitrust laws in effect
the official app works great on Android
It comes with a PWA that works well enough.
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.
So much good photos on there no generic popular spam crap like you get on Instagram
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 ?
Services or applications. An instance is just a server.
Bu yeah, there are a lot more than those! See here
PixelFed is federated Instagram!
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