Applications, social media interfaces, instances, Iโm not sure what the correct word is ๐ .
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?
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. Itโs not automatic.
My favorite is PixelFed. Iโm an artist, so Instagram was important for me, but for a few years now itโs 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. Iโm 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 :)
Is there interoperability between pixel fed and lemmy at all? Iโm so sick of Instagram, this piques my interest
Hm, is there a play store link? Iโm not sure how to put an app on my phone thatโs not from the playstore
Do you have any suggestions as to how to find people on there? I have it installed and am trying it out, but Iโm 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.
Hereโs 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 youโre reading, review them, read otherโs reviews).
Edit: the flagship instance is https://bookwyrm.social
I think itโs 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.
Akkoma is also very stable and much faster than Mastodon.
Still not sure what this is supposed to do based on the site? Itโs some kind of all-in-one fediverse thing? Doesnโt help that they reference a ton of federated services that Iโve never heard of in the website
Implements ActivityPub, you can do Twitter-like messaging with it and define the maximum length of the text. The client API is the same as with Mastodon, so you can use any Mastodon app with it, or even run the Mastodon web frontend.
It is written in Elixir instead of Ruby, so it is much faster and uses less resources than Mastodon. Supports quoting and emoji reactions like Misskey does. Super easy to install.
Yes and no. Yes an app exists, but itโs not official, and the app is only a wrapper for the website. It may be better to โinstallโ the website to your home screen using the option in your browser.
If you want to check it out, itโs 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.
PixelFed is federated Instagram!
@QuantumEyetanglement @Pickle_Jr If you mention Pixelfield than mention their pet project https://fedidb.org/
Itโs 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 โbestโ platform (whatever that means for them) and when they find one they like, theyโll 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. Itโs 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 youโre 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 wouldnโt. If instagram is working for you and yours, then Iโd imagine youโll stay there. Thatโs 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 doesnโt have ads for 2/3 of the content, b) it doesnโt have reels (which IMO go against the entire point of instagram to begin with), and c) Iโm 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 thereโs so much other stuff on there getting in the way. Pixelfed is โback to basicsโ for what Iโm looking for in an art sharing platform.
PeerTube, basically a federated YouTube-like
I looked at it and have no idea where or how to start as a creator. Itโs a badly federated mess as far as I can tell. Hope it improved eventually.
Why do you think itโs badly federated? Iโve never been unable to find my peertube account from anywhere Iโve tried - Mastodon, Firefish, Friendica, Pixelfed, or Lemmy.
I might have no idea how it works, but I can barely ever find anything, letโs say looking for crusader kings content. Either it doesnโt exist (possible) or the instances are badly federated and I canโt find that stuff searching on one of them.
You have to find an instance that allows signing up, then you can create an account there
newpipe.net supports peertube.
