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.
Nobody in this thread seems to have mentioned #Kbin. It’s an instance that aims to combine the #microblog structure of instances like Mastodon with the thread structure of instances like Lemmy.
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)
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
I’ve been enjoying Firefish for my Mastodon content. I like the extra features and interface better than stock Mastodon.
Though, unless I just can’t find it, there doesn’t appear to be any way to follow a hashtag on Firefish, which is a bit of a bummer. The antenna feature is alright at filling in this gap, but it’s not perfect.
Firefish works mostly okay with third-party apps, but none of them seem to be able to do some of the more advanced features like the live, auto-refreshing feeds, which is a feature I rather enjoy. So I’ve been pretty content with just using the PWA on my phone for the time being. The mobile interface is solid enough that I don’t feel a strong need for a dedicated app just quite yet. Notifications can be delayed by a few minutes, but I can tolerate that.
Though, unless I just can’t find it, there doesn’t appear to be any way to follow a hashtag on Firefish, which is a bit of a bummer. The antenna feature is alright at filling in this gap, but it’s not perfect.
To be fair, most people don’t seem to tag their content anyway, so I guess antennas are just as effective
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.
