Applications, social media interfaces, instances, I’m not sure what the correct word is 😅.
Pretty much title!
PixelFed is federated Instagram!
@QuantumEyetanglement @Pickle_Jr If you mention Pixelfield than mention their pet project https://fedidb.org/
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.
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.
And Firefish has so many more bells and whistles than that! Full-text search, antennas, quotes, drive, pages, channels, MFM.
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.
I might have no idea how it works, but I can barely ever find anything, let’s say looking for crusader kings content. Either it doesn’t exist (possible) or the instances are badly federated and I can’t 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.
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.
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
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 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.
