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!
- 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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PeerTube is a decentralized video hosting network, based on free/libre software. Join the federation and take back control of your videos!JoinPeerTube
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •It’s also worth mentioning that you can integrate your #Wordpress or #Drupal blogs into the fediverse, too! So, you can natively integrate your articles, and replies on the fediverse can show up as comments on them!
WordPress: github.com/pfefferle/wordpress…Drupal: git.drupalcode.org/project/act…
GitHub - pfefferle/wordpress-activitypub: ActivityPub for WordPress
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •reel2bits - opensource audio and podcast sharing
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Unknown parent • • •si2mev
Unknown parent • • •didn't get it to work easily. Website of funkywhale is not very helpful.
Also you may change Spotify alternative to music streaming alternative. Cause Spotify is not the only big one.
Sean Tilley
in reply to si2mev • • •Unfortunately, I can’t edit my status yet, but fair point.
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.
docs.funkwhale.audio/admin/ind…
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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in reply to InfiniteOne • • •Thank you! 😁 There’s an enormous amount of potential behind the network. The naysayers often conflate Mastodon with the rest of the network, but have no idea what it’s capable of.
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
in reply to InfiniteOne • • •As someone who's been living in the chocolate factory for years, it's exciting to see new people coming in.
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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in reply to dosch :unverified: • • •You know, aside from being a place to build a resume, I have never understood the appeal of LinkedIn.
I feel like Friendica might be an okay replacement for the social parts?
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Sean Tilley
in reply to GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ • • •I don’t think BookWyrm does, but it still federates using the ActivityPub protocol. That being said, the majority of what I’ve recommended, you can follow accounts on those from Mastodon.
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.
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Sean Tilley
in reply to GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ • • •A good way to think about it: a long while back, to Twitter and Instagram got into a disagreement. Twitter decided to refuse to show Insta links as rich previews, making it more inconvenient to share pictures with Twitter.
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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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •And contrary to the private GAFAMs trying to hold you captive : they communicate!
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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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Sean Tilley
in reply to Victor Vanchesa • • •Sadly, it’s really not. It doesn’t federate with most of the network. Every platform that federates with it had to reverse-engineer it pretty much on their own.
It’s not a bad app, but the current devs refuse to even try out ActivityPub.
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Sean Tilley
in reply to opal hart • • •Yeah, they can definitely do their own thing. I just think they’d reap a lot of benefits if we could all federate.
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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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Sean Tilley
in reply to opal hart • • •It’s not impossible, but migrating a whole network would definitely be a huge undertaking.
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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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Pixelfed and Lemmy are great tho.
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in reply to ₘᵣₒⱼₒ • • •Magnus Hedemark
in reply to ₘᵣₒⱼₒ • • •Sean Tilley
in reply to Magnus Hedemark • • •Yeah, this is definitely something that could be better. That being said:
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
Unknown parent • • •GitHub - pfefferle/wordpress-activitypub: ActivityPub for WordPress
GitHubMaren Day 🌊
in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Sean Tilley
in reply to Maren Day 🌊 • • •Closest I could find was WriteFreely and Plume, but they’re kind of sparse at the moment.
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
in reply to Sean Tilley • • •I've just imported my most recent GR review into #BookWyrm, but wonder how to get it (or other services) to "interoperate" with my Mastodon?
bookrastinating.com/user/wdcla…
Sean Tilley
in reply to W.D. Clarke • • •I was able to pull up a profile by converting a user’s address to a handle (user@domain.tld) and was able to at least pull in the profile.
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
in reply to Sean Tilley • • •interesting, but Friendica, Pixelfed and BookWyrm all seem to want to create new accounts (not looked at the others yet). You can then link back to your Mastodon account?
Would be nice if you could sign in with the same account, but guess that's technically difficult.
Sean Tilley
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Sean Tilley
in reply to Nick • • •Generally, this is a challenge for federated communities. I have the benefit of having been in this space for nearly 15 years. My advice is to jump in with a pseudonym to try one out, and see what you find.
That being said, I do generally like Libranet.de.
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Hello Sean.
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. "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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in reply to dbaman :python: ☁️ • • •Pleroma — a lightweight fediverse server
pleroma.socialicefyre
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in reply to icefyre • • •OpenLibrary is pretty good, but admittedly does not federate.
Bookwyrm, by contrast, does federate. Apparently, Inventaire also federates now (users have to opt-in, though).
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in reply to YurkshireLad • • •friendica – A Decentralized Social Network
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Sean Tilley
in reply to A. Sebastian Dietzel 😎🥳 • • •Yeah, this has been a long-talked-about thing. It’s theoretically possible with ActivityPub Client-to-Server API, in the sense that you just run a bunch of frontends that just connect to the same account. It’s an area I’d like to explore more, as I continue to tinker with custom frontends for Pleroma.
Sadly, ActivityPub C2S adoption is kind of limited - Mastodon instead favors its own API for clients, partially because it’s more straightforward for implementors.
w3.org/TR/activitypub/#client-…
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Sean Tilley
in reply to The Other Brook • • •I honestly have no idea what a full-blown Amazon replacement would even look like.
Do you just mean the book store part? 😛
Mirek Długosz 🕸️🐛
in reply to Sean Tilley • • •I wonder: how does the plain old blog with boring text-heavy articles fit in? Should we publish our content to #fediverse in addition to #RSS feed? Does ActivityPub-aware website enable us to do something cool or novel? What is theoretically possible?
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
in reply to Mirek Długosz 🕸️🐛 • • •There’s nothing wrong with using both. The main draw for ActivityPub integration with blogs is that you can receive replies (comments) directly from the fediverse itself, and people can read your blog posts directly from their social platforms.
People can also follow your blogs with their fediverse accounts and receive updates in their timelines.
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Sean Tilley
in reply to Rebel :verified: • • •I haven’t heard of one yet! But, with that being said…
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?
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in reply to Rebel :verified: • • •@rebel Here you go!
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Learn Ruby on Rails
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Sean Tilley
in reply to Peter Kraus • • •@pkraus the short of it: you can follow accounts on different platforms from your own, and their stuff will appear natively in your timeline.
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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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Thanks for putting this list together.
If you don't mind the suggestion, PeerTube is just an app, not unlike [FreeTube](freetubeapp.io/), which works on the desktop. Have you looked into [Invidious](invidious.io/)?
Also, there's another Spotify alternative out there I very much like called [Resonate](resonate.coop/).
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in reply to calligraffiti • • •@calligraffiti the purpose of my list is that these are all federated apps that can allow Mastodon users to follow creators on their respective platforms. They aren't just apps, they are part of this ecosystem.
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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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Twitter replacement: GnuSocial
GnuSocial replacement: Pleroma, Mastodon
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in reply to Den Datafag Trollmann • • •@hj pleroma replacement: misskey
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in reply to Haelwenn /элвэн/ • • •@lanodan It has isCat so it's intended to replace everything eventually.
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in reply to Lightning Bjornsson • • •@lightning @ignaloidas @hj @thatbrickster Because to me email with decent management of massive lists is Usenet.
(I hate mailing-lists so much on a technical perspective…)
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Unknown parent • • •@Longplay_Games Instagram used to be a place where people uploaded cool photos. People can still do that there, but there's tons of ads and spam now, and the app tries to do a million things after Facebook bought it. They pretty much made it a mini-Facebook.
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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in reply to David Bradley • • •@sciencebase I used to be the Community Manager. The project still exists, and is actively developed, but they are doing their own thing, and do not want to adopt ActivityPub.
It's completely community-run now, and no longer a startup. I wrote about my experience some here: deadsuperhero.com/planting-a-s…
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
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in reply to Nando's Brain • • •@BroCrow I probably should have used more general language. It's more like an open source GrooveShark, where you can store your files privately on a server, and stream it to your mobile client.
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.
open.audio/channels/butterflyd…
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Sean Tilley
in reply to stringer • • •@stringer Yeah, it's more for private streaming of your own files. That being said, people do share their own creations publicly on it...
open.audio/channels/butterflyd…
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Are there any algorithms in mastodon?
Like when I respond to your toot, will I see your toots more often?
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Are there any links on the interoperation between services? When I went to pixelfed it looked like it wan'ted to set up a new account.
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
in reply to Sheepie • • •Spencer
in reply to Sean Tilley • • •To add to this, imagine being able to follow your friend's Instagram posts from Twitter, and when you tweet a comment in response, it automatically shows up on Instagram.
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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in reply to Ryan Peters • • •The Big Trail (1930)
The VidCommons ProjectFrankFlobster
in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Thanks. But of course, I have questions.
If I was to join one of those, would it mean that my Mastodon address changed?
Sean Tilley
in reply to FrankFlobster • • •@FrankFlobster No. If you joined one of these services, you'd just have another account.
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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in reply to Shonin • • •You’ve got a few options.
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
element.ioSean Tilley
Unknown parent • • •RAIJIN RISING | GhostSecGroup™
in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Sean Tilley
in reply to RAIJIN RISING | GhostSecGroup™ • • •Yeah, OwnCast is amazing! I think its streaming is also compatible with PeerTube, which can also do streaming?
OBS works brilliantly with both projects.
Jürgen Hubert
in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Missing: A Dating App replacement.
I am only half kidding.
Sean Tilley
in reply to Jürgen Hubert • • •@juergen_hubert actually, there are two projects for fediverse dating apps already.
github.com/lafnlab/Amore
github.com/Alovoa/alovoa
GitHub - lafnlab/Amore: Amore is/will be dating app software for the Fediverse.
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Ben Smith
in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Thank you for this.
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
in reply to Ben Smith • • •There isn’t a great solution yet. One workaround, as you put it, is to boost your stuff that you posted elsewhere. It’s a bit tedious, though.
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.
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Sean Tilley
in reply to ~! • • •Yeah, I’ve heard it compared to either SMTP or IMAP before. It’s actually not bad to work with at all, but requires a different way of thinking about how to put things together.
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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in reply to Marguerite Efdé • • •Strypey
in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Great to see you active in the 'verse again and thanks for sharing this list with newbies, but...
@sean
> 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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in reply to Strypey • • •@strypey
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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in reply to Strypey • • •I guess that’s fair. I just tend to see Friendica’s current resign as very reminiscent of what was good about Facebook’s UI prior to the Big Bad Redesign where it now looks like a PlaySkool interface.
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 reply to Sean Tilley • • •> if you cut out the chat, games, zillions of client apps, marketplace, moments, and their video offerings
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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Unknown parent • • •I’m writing up a guide to better articulate this, but I’ll give you the short version.
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: spectra.video/w/kMjshXEGwBiukJ…
Pixelfed Image: pixelfed.social/i/web/post/490…
Funkwhale track: open.audio/library/tracks/1125…
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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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Does #pixelfed do hashtag feeds like mastodon?
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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in reply to benjamin melançon • • •@mlncn That's a good one! The short answer is that generally, you don't. Bookwyrm requires you to have an account on there to make reviews.
That said, you can follow that subsequent Bookwyrm account from Mastodon!
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Unknown parent • • •@DaytonTUphold no, it's more akin to GrooveShark, where you stream your own music library from the cloud to a mobile client.
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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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •awesome list Sean, ty!
can you tell me how you made href links?
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in reply to cackalackdev • • •Pleroma — a lightweight fediverse server
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