I'm aware of kbin, mastodon, and lemmy. Are there any other federated applications out there?

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• darcy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tree diagram of federated software, separated by protocol and use case, including ActivityPub and Matrix protocols.

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  • Peruvian_Skies@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Very neat, thanks for sharing! What do the dotted lines between non-Fediverse protocols and Fediverse platforms represent? Do those platforms use multiple protocols?

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    • darcy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Im not sure, I just found it on wikipedia

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    • Salix@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do those platforms use multiple protocols?

      Yes

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  • Vlhacs@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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?

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    • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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 the platform also has to support other platforms so it’s not automatic.

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  • Salix@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Link to official page of that image

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• Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Here’s a list of 130: 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).

  I think it’s worth noting that Mastodon is by far the most mature. Everything else is buggy and may not always work they way you might expect but I think many are still worth using if you can put up woth the quirks.

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  • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also worth noting that BookWyrm can import your books from a GoodReads export, so you can try it without risking much.

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  • pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Akkoma is also very stable and much faster than Mastodon.

    akkoma.social

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    • Cubes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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

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    • jcrabapple@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And it’s much easier to run (less resources) and easily accepts multiple frontend UIs.

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  • beefbaby182@lemmy.thesanewriter.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I just found Bookwyrm and love it! Now that’s a great idea for a federated site.

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  • spiderman@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    is there any android app for bookwyrm?

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    • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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• eugenia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My favorite is PixelFed. I’m an artist, so Instagram was important for me, but for a few years now it’s 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. I’m really enjoying it, as I can finally grow again my followship as an artist: pixelfed.org

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  • sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bonus points for lack of normies posting crappy reels

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  • christophski@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is there interoperability between pixel fed and lemmy at all? I’m so sick of Instagram, this piques my interest

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    • eugenia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There is interoperability between PixelFed and Mastodon for sure. I often get a lot of likes from there, rather than PixelFed itself.

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  • ruckblack@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do you have any suggestions as to how to find people on there? I have it installed and am trying it out, but I’m running into a lot of the same problems I was having on Mastodon; it seems difficult to discover engaging content.

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    • eugenia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can follow me if you like book illustration art: 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.

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  • Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Any great FOSS apps for that one yet?:)

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    • NumaNumaNode@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      pixelfed.org/mobile-apps

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  • Mr_nutter_butter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So much good photos on there no generic popular spam crap like you get on Instagram

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• QuantumEyetanglement@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  PixelFed is federated Instagram!

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  • N1cknamed@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • azura@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Because everyone uses the internet exactly like you do. :)

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    • Peruvian_Skies@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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  • fattosan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks that’s exactly what I’m looking for!

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  • Kotking@mastodon.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    @QuantumEyetanglement @Pickle_Jr If you mention Pixelfield than mention their pet project https://fedidb.org/

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• AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  PeerTube, basically a federated YouTube-like

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  • AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • breakfastmtn@geddit.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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    • L3s@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You have to find an instance that allows signing up., then you can create an account there

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  • PaulDevonUK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Recommended android app?

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• burgersc12@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Guys the real place to look is fedidb.org/software

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• Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  • Peertube is a relatively popular federated-decentralized video platform, a couple of serious youtuber even have a mirror set there. But if you look for a place to share informal video with or without personal data it’s better place than youtube (When reddit r/guitar had the weekly* first take challenge* I uploaded a few video on peertube because I don’t want to tell google or the world about my bad but fun attempt jamming a guitar for an online challenge)

  • Pixelfed is a photo sharing app, I have an account there but don’t use it as I am not that much in photography, They do even have an instance dedicated to artists

  • I heard about Calckey/Firefish/Misskey but not really sure what’s the benefit over Mastodon

  • Diaspora* is the great old one of federated social network last time I opened it it was full of conspiracy nuts

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  • esty@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Misskey has more features than mastodon, and firefish is a tweaked misskey with saner defaults, more tweaks and made by a furry

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• venoft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Something that’s often overlooked as being federated: Nextcloud.

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  • wmrch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How exactly does federation on Nextcloud work? I use a hosted Nextcloud instance but it’s just an OneDrive alternative for me.

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    • CaptObvious@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same here. Now I’m curious.

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• maajmaaj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Friendica: fediverse facebook

  Calckey and Firefish: Mastodon but with extra bells and whistles like the ability to use emotes in place of likes.

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  • Chozo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • AzuleBlade@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, I like the Firefish interface a lot more. I was able to follow the handful of people I followed on Mastodon seamlessly. Everything just looks better IMO.

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  • breakfastmtn@geddit.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And Firefish has so many more bells and whistles than that! Full-text search, antennas, quotes, drive, pages, channels, MFM.

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    • maajmaaj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank you for adding detail! I was dead tired.

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• pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t think it’s federated but Matrix is decentralized

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• janWilejan@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Owncast, a live video streaming platform, has fediverse integration.

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  • Kalcifer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What’s the difference between Owncast, and Peertube’s livestreaming function?

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    • azura@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Owncast is streaming only, PeerTube has streaming as a feature. If you’re only looking to stream, run Owncast. It’s lighter on resource usage, easier to set up, fewer moving parts. If you want video hosting with maybe streaming as a bonus, you want PeerTube.

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• 7two@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There's Bookwyrm which is a Federated version of GoodReads.

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• Vuipes@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Misskey and Firefish
  They are microblogs like Mastodon but with much more functions.

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  • Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They still communicate with Mastodon instances, I suppose ? it’s all ActivityPub ? What kind of functions do they have ?

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• ominouslemon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There are a lot more than those! See here

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• gunnm@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nostr. It’s a protocol working with relays and no instances.

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  • optimal@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Its filled with cryptobros and libertarians. Its a cesspool I wouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole.

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    • Chemish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      With a recommendation like that, I HAD to try it! Thanks!

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    • gunnm@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It has free speech and zaps are optional.

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Here are a handful with descriptions. If you’re interested in the wider fediverse explore that fedi.tips site.

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• Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fediverse.info Tildeverse.org

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