I only use lemmy/mbin/piefed thing for now. I would call it a reddit replacement but its really to me a newsgroup replacment. I like being a member of the federation so far over the reddit star empire.
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there are other things???
There's honestly a lot out there...
- Mastodon *
- Lemmy *
- Diaspora
- Pixelfed *
- Funkwhale
- Matrix *
- Misskey *
- Peertube *
- Loops *
- Mbin *
- Wafrn *
- Plemora
- Hubzilla
- Piefed *
- Friendica
- Bookwyrm
... and probably more that I'm not able to think of.
* I recommend all the ones with asterisks. I haven't tried most of the other ones yet.Hello from PieFed!
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Woot woot mbin
Lemmy dot world
Mastodon dot social
Pixelfed dot social
Or pick one that you like
sh.itjust.works is a better thing for lemmy, extremely new user friendly
I'm happy with Communick. They offer Lemmy, Mastodon, Matrix, and Funkwhale for one subscription. Its worth paying for, because the Fediverse isn't free.
FUCKING PAID?! sorry but isn’t the fediverse supposed to be free?! it’s decentralized so anyone can just host their own instance for free. youre a bot. i know Steve, dont lie to me, tell me, are you a person that works at communick?
If you're not paying for domain and hosting someone else is. If you are so sure that's free, why don't you self-host your own instance?
I don't know anything at all about communick, just saying. Supporting a fediverse provider run by individuals who otherwise volunteer their time monetarily is a virtue not a sin, and plenty of open projects do this.
okay I’m sorry but I just pick instances, not host.
It's not free. Servers and bandwidth cost money.
If you're not paying, someone is being generous and paying for you.
No I don't work there. But I have been paying for 2 years. And it's the only way for the Fediverse to scale. Donations won't get us to 100M users and beyond.
With respect to Communick, I doubt you'd get close to 100m subscribers either.
Not even 100 subscribers.
But I was referring to the Fediverse in general. It won't ever scale to a real global default social network, on the donations and the kindness of strangers.
If we don't pay for it, then it'll be paid for by adds.
Then we're back to what we're trying to get away from.
Communick or whatever, just pay. Even if it's a donation.
Sure, but if you make it mandatory to pay for anyone to use - it doesn't grow. And if you're right about the Fediverse, donations aren't enough and it also dies.
People make lots of online buisness that grow just fine.
It's just when people get used to a kind of thing being free, they feel like its impossible or stupid to pay for it. Even when those same people complain about how enshittification ruins everything, they refuse to directly pay instead.
People make lots of online buisness that grow just fine.
I didn't say it couldn't grow, just that model becoming huge is very unlikely.
Sure, but if you make it mandatory to pay for anyone to use - it doesn't grow.
Fair enough. I guess it could grow, but I don't really have any reason to believe it'll grow at a rate beyond the Fediverse now.
...where have you gotten the impression that it's "supposed to" be free?
Hosting your own instance will always cost money? Either as an electricity bill, or in the form of paying someone else's electricity bill and server maintenance for conveniencd. Even self-hosted server admins pay with their time in away also, there's even moderation to consider as well.
Nothing is free. Someone is paying for hardware, electricity, internet, and man hours.
On legacy social media, the advertisers and the consumers of your data are paying.
On the fediverse, someone in the community is paying.
I mean... Some people will host free servers, some will be paid. Omg.lol has a fedi server, and a bunch of other stuff, and it costs $20 per year for it. It's fine to expect users to pay you back for your time, effort, and cost???
Even self-hosted servers have a price, VPS also, so is not just about lurking for free to keep the fediverse alive. Everything has a price in this life you sound like a tankie.
I've seen their price list....sorta smacks of 'hey, guys! I've thought of a way to make money without doing fuck all for it!'.
One appeared to offer just Mastodon - nothing else - for a ridiculous $9/month.
Grifters.
That's a family plan for 6 people.
It works out to $1.50/person/month.
Whats your expirience woth funkwhale? I tried to get on it some time ago and i hit wall after wall after wall.
I played with it. Had no problems. Worked fine.
Then realised it doesn't do much for me personally. But it seems cool.
I use it for my music server and have enjoyed it, but I haven't really used it in a "fediverse" kind of way. I'm just using it for my own music collection, for the same use case that most people would use Navidrome for.
I disabled federation after I first set it up, because all of the sudden a bunch of podcasts showed up in languages that I don't speak, and I couldn't figure out how to hide them.
It has been just fine as a plain old music server, though. I used it for podcasts for a while, too, but am currently switching to Pinepods, since that has more podcast-specific features that I was looking for.
I chose Piefed over Lemmy since I thought the UI looked nicer. The pace of development has been really impressive lately, and for my specific instance, I've been very happy with feddit.online.
Mastodon seems like the default answer for this question, and I do also like Mastodon. I self-host that one.
It’s yet to have multiple instances but loops.video seems to be a good short-form video content space
I'm currently using Lemmy, and Friendica as my only fediverse accounts, and will probably keep it that way. Friendica has a lot of features, but in my experience it's slower than most
isn’t friendica, diaspora, mastodon, and half of the fediverse is federated by activitypub? you’re basically making a lot of accounts for the same service
Diaspora isn't, and I'm not sure if it has activity pub support at all? Most other things are. APub is turned on for Friendica (DFRN protocol) by default, and Hubzilla (Zot protocol) allows you to enable it pretty easily.
My line gets drawn based on what they're made for. Friendica, Mastodon, GoToSocial, all of the *key forks, are all similar enough that I just have one account for all of them. They're for microblogging.
Lemmy isn't for microblogging, it's a link aggregator/community forum-adjacent thing. It's different enough in function that I want a different account/client for it, especially if we're talking mastodon because Lemmy floods mastodon feeds.
If I cared about Bookwyrm, I'd have another account, same with PeerTube, etc. They feel different enough to the microblogs that I just prefer having accounts specific to them.
You can bite people and play doom on wafrn.
Idk why, but I always read wafrn as warfarin, which is a blood thinning medication I think?
Same
thank you for your help, I will look into each service.