This one is for all the new people on #Mastodon: did you know that the #fediverse has more than just a microblogging replacement? And that they can all interoperate with your Mastodon account?
Check them out!
Check them out!
- Facebook replacement: Friendica
- Instagram replacement: Pixelfed
- YouTube replacement: PeerTube
- Spotify replacement: Funkwhale
- MeetUp replacement: Mobilizon
- Reddit replacement: Lemmy
- Podcasting replacement: Castopod
- GoodReads replacement: BookWyrm
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•WordPress: https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-activitypubDrupal: https://git.drupalcode.org/project/activitypub
GitHub - pfefferle/wordpress-activitypub: ActivityPub for WordPress
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•Plume
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•reel2bits - opensource audio and podcast sharing
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•si2mev
•Also you may change Spotify alternative to music streaming alternative. Cause Spotify is not the only big one.
Sean Tilley
•The docs for FunkWhale are pretty good, it’s just a little weird to set up due to being a Django/Python app. I used to run a server, and didn’t have many problems.
https://docs.funkwhale.audio/admin/index.html#setup-guides
Let me know where you’re getting stuck, and I’ll try to help.
Administrator Documentation — funkwhale 1.2.8 documentation
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•It’s not just a Twitter killer. It has the potential to destroy all corporate silos, and bring a new kind of communication structure to the entire Internet. There’s a lot of hard problems yet to solve, but a lot of awesome things happening.
Spencer
•The internet is so much bigger and more full of possibility than the big corporate walled gardens, and I'm thrilled to be able to share that discovery!
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•I feel like Friendica might be an okay replacement for the social parts?
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•You can literally follow a PeerTube account, watch their video from Mastodon, reply with a status, and the comment shows up on PeerTube.
I have an instance at spectra.video if you’d like to try it out with any random video on there! Just copy a video URL to your Mastodon search bar, and it will show up as a status with embedded video.
Spectra
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•Sean Tilley
•There is no such barrier in the fediverse. You can follow people on Pixelfed and interact as if it were native to you.
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•You can follow, like and comment a Peertube channel, a Pixelfed account or a Lemmy community from your Mastodon account !!
All this is free without ads, developped and run by volonteers.
Awesomeness.
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•It’s not a bad app, but the current devs refuse to even try out ActivityPub.
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•As a former community manager that tried to get Diaspora to work with other projects or explore new protocols, I can’t help but feel a bit bitter about the outcome.
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•Sean Tilley
•With regards to Friendica, I feel like they mostly worked the kinks out. It took a lot of time and effort, and things like “reshares with additional comments on top” still look kind of janky, but it’s way better than it used to be.
I still have hope.
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•Pixelfed and Lemmy are great tho.
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•Magnus Hedemark
•Sean Tilley
•- @pixelfed has an iOS app in beta, and may be doing the same for Android very very soon.
- @funkwhale has an amazing client app on Android
- @peertube has a few apps on Android, but they really need more developers, and are kind of unfinished
- @LemmyDev actually has a brilliant mobile app called Lemmur, and it kind of already rivals the Reddit experience
The rest probably could benefit from good mobile clients, but they offer Open APIs to work with, and generally have good web interfaces for the interim.Sean Tilley
•GitHub - pfefferle/wordpress-activitypub: ActivityPub for WordPress
GitHubMaren Day 🌊
•Sean Tilley
•A plugin exists for WordPress, but I haven’t had much experience with setting it up these days. It worked for me in the past, though.
GitHub - pfefferle/wordpress-activitypub: ActivityPub for WordPress
GitHubW.D. Clarke
•https://bookrastinating.com/user/wdclarke/review/12873/s/lobster-lobes#anchor-12873
Sean Tilley
•That said, I couldn’t quite pull in any reviews, maybe it’s a different post type, or maybe I was trying to put in the wrong URL.
Robert Pickering
•Would be nice if you could sign in with the same account, but guess that's technically difficult.
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•That being said, I do generally like Libranet.de.
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Libranet.dedbaman :python: ☁️
•A question please..
In your post what exact markup/steps did you use for the hyperlinks so the link is just the nice human text?
i.e. "Foo" as a the hyperlink
vs. "https://foo.com"
vs. <a href=www.foo.com>Foo</a>
I'm pretty familiar with html, but can't seem to work this out when I write a post and have a nice inline link.
I am using Tusky. Are you? Or maybe you use the mastadon app?
Any help appreciated...
@dbaman
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•Pleroma — a lightweight fediverse server
pleroma.socialicefyre
•Sean Tilley
•Bookwyrm, by contrast, does federate. Apparently, Inventaire also federates now (users have to opt-in, though).
YurkshireLad
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•friendica – A Decentralized Social Network
friendi.caSean Tilley
•A. Sebastian Dietzel 😎🥳
•Sean Tilley
•Sadly, ActivityPub C2S adoption is kind of limited - Mastodon instead favors its own API for clients, partially because it’s more straightforward for implementors.
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#client-to-server-interactions
ActivityPub
www.w3.orgThe Other Brook
•Sean Tilley
•Do you just mean the book store part? 😛
Mirek Długosz 🕸️:python:🐛
•Or are we stuck with posting links to websites, the same way we do since forever?
I would welcome any reading recommendations on the topic.
Sean Tilley
•People can also follow your blogs with their fediverse accounts and receive updates in their timelines.
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•I recall that the beginner’s course One Month Rails literally taught people how to code a very basic Pinterest site. Obviously, getting the federation part to work would require much more effort, but…it’s probably doable / might exist?
Rebel :verified:
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•https://onemonth.com/courses/rails
Learn Ruby on Rails
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•Slightly longer: the platforms I mentioned all use the ActivityPub protocol and have a degree of compatibility. A Mastodon user could, for example, follow a PeerTube channel, watch a video, reply to it from Mastodon, and their comment would appear natively on that video in PeerTube.
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•calligraffiti
•If you don't mind the suggestion, PeerTube is just an app, not unlike [FreeTube](https://freetubeapp.io/), which works on the desktop. Have you looked into [Invidious](https://invidious.io/)?
Also, there's another Spotify alternative out there I very much like called [Resonate](https://resonate.coop/).
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•I'm afraid that none of the alternatives you've listed qualify on that specific criteria, though they are quite cool.
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•Twitter replacement: GnuSocial
GnuSocial replacement: Pleroma, Mastodon
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•(I hate mailing-lists so much on a technical perspective…)
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•Welcome - Identi.ca
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•NLnet; About NGI Zero
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•Pixelfed is an alternative that's open source and uses the same stuff that Mastodon uses to let servers talk to each other, and because of this, Mastodon users can also follow Pixelfed users and vice versa.
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•It's completely community-run now, and no longer a startup. I wrote about my experience some here: https://deadsuperhero.com/planting-a-seed-diasporas-story-part-1/
I have yet to write a Part 2.
Planting a Seed: Diaspora’s Story (Part 1)
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•OOOOOH there a Youtube replacement! I don't really see how a spotify replacement can work due to copyright problems but I'll check it out later. =D
meme:OH MY GOD
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•That said, people do publicly share the music they made themselves on there! I put up a few tracks on Open Audio, a Creative Commons instance.
https://open.audio/channels/butterflydoom/
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Open.Audio - Funkwhalestringer
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•https://open.audio/channels/butterflydoom/
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•John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️
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•Jakub Urbanowicz
•Are there any algorithms in mastodon?
Like when I respond to your toot, will I see your toots more often?
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•Sheepie
•I couldn't find a way to use my mastodon account or link the two? Didn't really seem that much like interoperability to me. Unless I'm missing something?
Sean Tilley
•Spencer
•That's sorta what this is describing. You can like, follow, or comment on the "Instagrams" and "YouTubes" of this network without ever logging into a separate account. The activity on these different services can all end up in your unified feed.
If you want to post your own "Instagram-like" photos and use that app's features, you'll need to register an account on an instance running that service.
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•If I was to join one of those, would it mean that my Mastodon address changed?
Sean Tilley
•These platforms use the same communication protocol to talk to each other. You can follow any user that's on one of these platforms directly from Mastodon, and interact with them from your home timeline. This includes seeing their posts.
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•Element is capable of video calls, and is a federated system using the @matrix protocol.
Jitsi is a bit more Zoom-like, and is pretty easy to use! Not federated, but totally open source.
Nextcloud Talk is a video conferencing platform that integrates directly into the Nextcloud platform. Open source, capable of federation with other Nextcloud servers, tons of benefits from the rest of the Nextcloud platform.
Element | Secure collaboration and messaging
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•OBS works brilliantly with both projects.
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•I am only half kidding.
Sean Tilley
•https://github.com/lafnlab/Amore
https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa
GitHub - lafnlab/Amore: Amore is/will be dating app software for the Fediverse.
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•How do you manage all the different identities you get with these services? Should my Mastodon ID boost my Pixelfed images (for example) or can I use one identity across all of them?
Sean Tilley
•A unified solution is something that I’d love to see, but requires platforms / clients to adopt the ActivityPub Client-to-Server API to make that happen. Unfortunately, it’s not as practical as the Mastodon API that most projects use instead.
A few projects support C2S, so I’m currently exploring the possibility of building unique clients that show different types of posts, with all the data living in one place, under one account.
~! :blobcathearttrans:
•Sean Tilley
•It would actually be an interesting experience to write an email-like frontend that exclusively uses C2S.
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Looks like this is make it or break it for the #activitypub protocol and the federation. With some luck we'll loose the overdopamined freaks on the way, those who can't get that sometimes machines just have kinda own life.
Do we have some server load recommendation data and active user comparisons?
Looks like some server are reaching the million user mark?
Should we ask for a call for registry stop for the existing servers, could be even a nice publicity stunt:
"Mastodon closes it's doors, the dance floor is full, make your own instance to join with your followers!"
@Eugen 💀
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> Facebook replacement: Friendica
... it's really not fair to Friendica to keep making this comparison. Neither the feature set nor the UI of Friendica are anything like modern FB, so calling it a FB replacement just sets people up for disappointment and poor first impressions. IMHO We don't yet have a complete, federated replaced for FB and it's better to just be honest about that.
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•I agree here, we need to be careful with wording.
Rather than saying Friendica is a facebook replacement, we should perhaps think about the services within facebook it does or can replace and promote that.
Of course a lot of people would leave facebook, only they are unable to as they are in touch with people on there who also won't leave due to specific groups or friends.
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•I still think Friendica is a totally viable replacement, if you cut out the chat, games, zillions of client apps, marketplace, moments, and their video offerings.
Yeah, I guess they are pretty different nowadays.
Strypey
•In other words, ignore the vast majority of the features people use FB for, then the comparison holds. This is kind of my point ;)
Friendica definitely offers things that Mastodon and other micro-posting platforms don't and it's well worth promoting. I just think if we're promoting fedi tools as replacements for datafarms, there must be a more accurate comparison for Friendica.
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•Accounts on the fediverse can talk to each other through federation. If you’re familiar with RSS and feed readers, take that concept and extend it in such a way that the user receiving stuff can directly respond to whatever is in their feed. Instead of just blog posts, it’s also interactions.
Now: every one of the services I listed has user accounts on them. From your side on Mastodon, you can directly follow PeerTube creators making videos, FunkWhale users uploading music, and Pixelfed users sharing photos. In fact, most of these things can directly receive your replies, and turn them into comments on the other side for the creator to see.
Try this: take these links, copy and paste them into your search bar on Mastodon, and watch how they get pulled in as results that you can view and interact with:
Peertube Video: https://spectra.video/w/kMjshXEGwBiukJNREbVFRt
Pixelfed Image: https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/490713952376564993
Funkwhale track: https://open.audio/library/tracks/112511/
You don’t need an account in these other places to view or interact with these things. You can do it all from the comfort of your Mastodon feed.
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•Element | Secure collaboration and messaging
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•Element | Secure collaboration and messaging
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•As a performing artist, currently most interaction we get is Ig, we're busy, but the audience uses hashtags that we then can boost (share) or pin (story) often from our phones during a break.
Assuming tavern-going folk take to a federated pixelfed and have the app at the ready, would this work the same?
We've been known to have the sousaphone player #livestream from his phone, too. Would that work with P2P streams?
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•That said, you can follow that subsequent Bookwyrm account from Mastodon!
Sean Tilley
•That being said, some musicians upload and share their work in public libraries that you can federate with and listen to.
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•cackalackdev
•can you tell me how you made href links?
Sean Tilley
•Pleroma — a lightweight fediverse server
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