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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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…
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in reply to dosch • • •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 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 Jon (now at neuromatch.social) • • •Welcome - Identi.ca
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Unknown parent • • •GitHub - pfefferle/wordpress-activitypub: ActivityPub for WordPress
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Twitter replacement: GnuSocial
GnuSocial replacement: Pleroma, Mastodon
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Funkwhale - Your free and decentralized audio platform
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •You are my hero. I have already started setting up accounts on several of these and will update my links page when done.
You are doing divine work here.
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Unknown parent • • •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 • • •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.
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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 • • •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.
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in reply to stringer • • •Yeah, it's more for private streaming of your own files. That being said, people do share their own creations publicly on it...
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in reply to Rebel • • •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 • • •Here you go!
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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? 😛
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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 • • •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 • • •reel2bits - opensource audio and podcast sharing
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in reply to SmartyPants • • •Jakub Urbanowicz
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?
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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)
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Unknown parent • • •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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Unknown parent • • •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.
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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.
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Missing: A Dating App replacement.
I am only half kidding.
Sean Tilley
in reply to Jürgen Hubert • • •actually, there are two projects for fediverse dating apps already.
github.com/lafnlab/Amore
github.com/Alovoa/alovoa
GitHub - Alovoa/alovoa: Free and open-source dating platform that respects your privacy
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •These are going to be either awesome or a total disaster.
Or both.
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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 Xerz 💗 • • •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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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Great to see you active in the 'verse again and thanks for sharing this list with newbies, but...
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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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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.
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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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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •it's like breaking out of the walled gardens to find a gang doing all the same stuff but on survival mode...without giving THE MAN anything.
Genuinely wonder if the purchase of the Birdsite might one day be looked on like buying a huge canal network just as the railway came in... there's another way!
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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
... show moreI’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 • • •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!
Aldon Hynes
in reply to Sean Tilley • • •I'm on #BookWyrm as @ahynes1@books.theunseen.city
I follow that account with my Mastodon account. When I post a review on BookWyrm I then boost it in Mastodon. It is a little cumbersome, but it works and I don't review a lot of books.
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Unknown parent • • •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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