I know I’ve made the jump to Mastodon, and now lemmy. But what are the other sites that I’m missing out on?

  • borlax@lemmy.borlax.comEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    Someone on my mastodon instance sent this in regards to federated alternatives.

    • Youtube/Vimeo->PeerTube
    • Instagram->Pixelfed
    • Reddit->Lemmy
    • Twitter->Mastodon
    • Facebook->Friendica
    • Goodreads->BookWyrm
    • Twitch->Owncast/PeerTube
    • Spotify?->Funkwhale
    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      And just to add some more detail to this.

      For twitter -> mastodon … there are alternatives beyond mastodon like akkoma, calckey, misskey, pleroma (where akkoma came from). From what I can tell, akkoma is cool, but mostly used for hosting your own single-user or small user-base server, but not exclusively at all (for instance, the linux kernel developers run their own instance for themselves on akkoma … Linus Torvalds is there and occasionally posts). Calckey is fun and feature rich but also being actively developed.

      For Reddit -> Lemmy, there’s also kbin, which is newer, took some inspiration from lemmy, but is fusing microblogging with threaded posts, kinda cool and I’d like to see kbin and lemmy grow together.

      Pixelfed seems to be doing well with a committed developer and an app and a newly released feature to import your instagram history.

      If you’re into blogging (remember blogs!?), there are some options too. Lemmy could be used by just starting a community and allowing only moderators to post (this is recommended in the documentation). Otherwise, writefreely and micro.blog provide some platforms while microblog.pub is an interesting platform that you would have to self-host but, if you have the know how, may be pretty suitable for hacking it to your liking (python + sqlite).

  • hiajen@feddit.deEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Pixelfed as instagram alternative is a big one i guess.

    Not realy fedi but somewhat: Matrix as mesenger/discord alternative.

  • ram@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Personally I enjoy and use Lemmy, obviously, Mastodon for Twitter of course, Bookwyrm for Goodreads, and WriteFreely for creative authorship.

    I’d love to use OwnCast but there’s a void of content to enjoy unfortunately :c

    • NeonPayload@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It also has a livestreaming option as well. I’m hoping some twitch streamers would consider; but, that’s a longshot because they’re upset about ad money not actual content. Unless, there is a way to monetize content hosting without ads that’s more or less a pipe dream

  • MyopicTopic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    Diaspora* is one that’s been around for yeeeeears. A federated Facebook basically. I always wished it’d take off since I do like the idea of having a personal page for very close friends and my network but it is much harder to take off because, while reddit and other sites have tech-minded folks willing to learn and migrate, very few people have an entire extended friend group looking to figure out what a decentralized federated Facebook would entail.

  • heavyboots@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    The only other ones I personally use are PixelFed (which is similar to IG) and BookWyrm, which is like GoodReads.

      • heavyboots@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Hey! I like it pretty well so far, although I admit I exited GoodReads so fast I have nothing to compare against really.

  • lntl@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    In my opinion: IRC has to be on the list. But I am not your average Joe.

    • Pickled-Pizza@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I used to spend a lot of time on IRC back in the day. The only thing stopping me from using now, is I can’t find a decent IRC client for iPad. The big problem was around multitasking. I would say switch over to my mail app to read a message that just came in, and when I would switch back to the IRC app I would find myself disconnected from the server.

      I do remember reading about a web based IRC client that would solve that problem. I was going to set it up in my home server, then got busy and forgot its name.

      • lntl@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’ve got zero experience with the apple stuff, but I do have experience with home server so maybe there is something here you can use. Essentially, the device in my hands is never the one that’s running IRC.

        On my home server, I have a tmux session where my IRC client lives and runs 24/7. Then from whatever device I am on, from anywhere, I ssh into my homeserver and connect to the tmux session.

        Long live IRC