I am considering using a Fire tablet and a Chromebook and would like to know what OS I need to access the Fediverse suite of apps.
Is the Fediverse accessible as part of the Amazon and Google suite of apps?
Would I be able to access it on the Web anywhere no matter what device?
I intend to use the Fediverse everywhere if possible no matter what device I may acquire.
Most Fediverse stuff has web front ends so that any modern browser will work.
My concern would be that Chrome is about to neuter ad blockers, and you can’t use a different browser without replacing the OS.
Both are also heavily privacy destroying.
Based on this Chromebooks can run Firefox flatpaks.
Ah, it’s been a while since I stopped using ChromeOS. That’s an improvement.
You don’t need any app at all to access it. Apps are just frontends (user interfaces) to access the information submitted to the Fediverse.
For many Fediverse users, Mastodon is an app. The whole of Mastodon is one app. Mastodon the server application and Mastodon the official phone app are united in one big murky monolith.
The Fediverse is not an app in itself, but rather a collective term for all the services that integrate themselves with the ActivityPub protocol for federation.
This just means all the apps that talk to each other in a specific way.
Now, I don’t know anything about Chromebooks or Fire Tablets, but to use Android as an example; I use the app ‘Interstellar’ to use Mbin. Mbin uses ActivityPub, and therefore is part of the fediverse. Also, I use Moshidon to login to my Iceshrimp.NET account. Iceshrimp also uses ActivityPub and therefore is also a Fediverse service even though it is completely different to Mbin, and I can’t log in to Iceshrimp with Interstellar and vice versa.
If you want to find apps for the Fediverse you should look at the websites and source code repositories’ readme’s to find information about clients. E.G. For Mastodon clients you can check https://joinmastodon.org/apps
Also, if there are no apps for your platform, almost all services let you just use the browser. Like if you have a Mastodon account on https://defcon.social/ you can just open that link in Firefox. Good luck :)
You’re doing it right now!
The Fediverse is both everywhere and nowhere. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!
