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Looking for an entry to the Fediverse that's made for a single user. Preferably Reddit/Lemmy-like. (lemmy.jamestrey.com)
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I'm hosting and running a Lemmy just for myself, and am having no problem with it. Lemmy is great. But I'm looking to branch out, and see what else exists out there.

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[–] caos@anonsys.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

@butter Most software in the Fediverse is not topic-centred like #Lemmy , but account-centred.
The best known alternative to Lemmy would probably be Kbin . According to #FediverseParty, there are Moontree, Lotide and brutalinks, which is by @mariusor
#Montree #Lotide #kbin

[–] butter@lemmy.jamestrey.com 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Interesting. It's account central considered better? Or more complete? Maybe I should try one of those, what do you recommend?

[–] Adda@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

My take in this would be the following: It is simply a different paradigm, focusing on a different approach to engagement.

On Lemmy, you follow communities (topics) and you are supposed to be interested in what happens in the world regarding that topic. In Mastodon, you follow mostly users, content creators, people (yes, you can follow hashtags, too). You are not interested in open source (a community/topic) in general, rather, you are interested in what particular your favourite developer is currently working on, and so on. You either want both of these worlds, so you make an account on Lemmy to follow topics that interest you within a UI optimized for that. And you create a Mastodon account to follow those specific people.

Alternatively, you use only one platform and follow the content from the other platform, too, but in a UI that is not optimized for such type of content. It all depends on what are you comfortable with and what do you enjoy.

[–] eshep@social.trom.tf 1 points 2 years ago

@caos @butter All depends on what you're looking to get out of it. I've been quite happy with Friendica but it took me trying ~10 other things to learn that. I landed on it because it gave me the most compatibility with other fediverse things. Hubzilla or Streams are two others that offer even more compatibility but I haven't yet gotten comfortable enough with either to make a decision. Everything has slightly different features to offer, so I'd recommend give em all a ride. The main base models are going to be Mastodon, Pleroma, and Misskey. Each of those have a handful of forks to look at as well. If you're looking to self-host any of them, none are overly difficult as far as I understand.

These pages should provide you with more info than you probably want on em all.

fedidb.org
jointhefediverse.net
fediverse.observer
fediverse.info
fediverse.party