I like Lemmy. Active development, lots of third party apps, active community, etc but what other Fediverse projects are worth getting into like this one?
For microblogging (Twitter), I know Mastodon is really popular but there are so many other microblogging options like Pleroma, Misskey, FireFish, etc that I don’t know which one is really worth getting into (as a user, dev, or admin). Are any of these on par with Lemmy?
For video, there’s PeerTube. The content isn’t great at all and most servers struggle to pay bills. I think the YouTube replacement is a looong way to go.
You’re absolutely right about PeerTube. However, given the recent decisions made by YouTube and its parent company on adblocking, I think we might see a surge in PeerTube content and development soon.
One thing I have noticed in the past year is that whenever Big Tech services become compromised or make controversial decisions, the Fediverse equivalent starts to bloom. I joined Mastodon and Lemmy earlier this year because of the controversies surrounding X and Reddit. Now that YouTube has done the same, I think we will soon see a “great migration” to PeerTube.
Just my two cents.
There is also “Owncast”, but it seems to suffer from the same issue that peertube does; there is no integrated revenue system for the streamer, so there is little reason to put effort in to the quality, as well as it being fairly unknown, so even if you set up donos etc. the audience isn’t there.
The discoverability don’t help, since there isn’t really s good way to filter out all the “24/7 radio” -streams, so even if you actively follow the frontpage, or a category, you have to skim trough them manually. Also, there is no proper language filter (at least if you don’t have an account), and it seems it’s more popular with non-english speaking streamers.
As a user: Pixelfed is a nice replacement for Instagram. It’s very clean and it captures what Instagram used to be years ago
It just needs users. Right now I’m following artists and creatives
Yep! An official app and a few third party ones
https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps
The mobile site works fairly well if you don’t want an appa
I tried Pixelfed (very briefly) not so long ago. I didn’t find a propper way to search for content. How do you discover new content?
I started with the ‘Discover’ page for some stuff, but I think I found most things by searching relevant hashtags. Once I had a few people followed, I also took a peek at who was resharing/liking/commenting to find more people. I haven’t used it THAT much yet, but there’s enough content to scroll through every now and then
For Microblogging so far I’ve used Mastodon because it seems to have the most feature complete apps from what I’ve seen (Megalodon and Tusky are both good). For the most part they interface together, I follow people on Misskey.
While it’s got a good amount of activity I don’t use it as much as Lemmy since the advantage here is that things are sorted into communities so it’s easier to find good content. You can follow tags on Mastodon, but because it has no real algorithm and the “toots” are less substantial than Lemmy submissions I find that you get a lot of banal status updates. It also has to compete with Bluesky which has more name recognition being made by ex-Twitterites that also draws more users away from it. If you can find good people to follow it’s good but I think we’re still waiting on a critical mass of people to move from the former site.
Yeah apps are pretty necessary for me so its good to know that Mastodon has good ones. I get brain damage reading tweets so maybe Mastodon wouldn’t be so bad. I do like Lemmy though.
Takahē is looking for new maintainers. It’s a microblogging server in the beginning stages of development. As far as I know, there aren’t many (if any) instances outside the main development instance.
idkfa is a new fediverse project from ted unangst, who is the creator of honk (another AP microblogging project)
