Other use cases for the fediverse

I never got into mastodon because I couldn't connect multiple instances. I like this a lot about Lemmy so far (just here for a few minutes though).

Reading about the fediverse got me thinking. What other use cases could you think of? Maybe outside social media?

Would a fediverse password manager be more or less secure than some company owned pm?

How about "clones" of other social media like FB and Insta, TikTok?

What about a blogging community like Medium?

Other ideas?

bender,

Its still early. It needs time to mature.

ram,
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I’d like to see a GitHub clone for the Fediverse that enabled the cross-instance forking of code. The recent goings-on with the FOSS Invidious make me worry about the future of all open-source software that tries to allow us some level of privacy. Putting it on a distributed network would be extremely beneficial to prevent megacorps from bullying such projects out of existence.

KelsonV,
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is a book review site like Goodreads

is a blogging service, and Medium is actually working on Fediverse integration.

V4uban,

First time I hear about Bookwyrm, looks interesting

empyrean,

Good choice of avatar 🤔

pancake,
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Here is an exhaustive list of fedi projects. Enjoy!

gredo,

Thanks a lot!

Vendetta9076,
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On the topic of a PM, its probably best to self host one. Any multi user PM, regardless of company or community backed, will become a target once its big enough. Vaultwarden takes an hour at most from scratch to host on a raspi. I highly reccomend it as a first time project :)

gredo,

Does Vaultwarden do their own reverse-proxying, routing etc like e.g. Plex? I use my PM on my mobile all the time from everywhere and last time I tried setting up DynDNS or so it really didn't work. Maybe I need to invest more time.

Vendetta9076,
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Plex doesnt techincally do reverse proxy but I understand what you mean. Vaultwarden doesnt but its rather easy to set up. I haven't used DynDNS but I have mine running through traefik on my truenas scale machine. Grab a cheap domain, learn the minimum amount of networking and youre good to go. If you need any help you can pm me :). Scale makes the SSL cert delivery very easy but its not hard to do outside of scale either. Ive done it through both a Scale Box and just basic ass ubuntu server, so piOS should be easy as well given that you can run docker on it.

gredo,

I know traefik, need to check out the scale machine though. How can I access it though if I don't have a static IP and no DNS? I might use my routers VPN, but that wouldn't work for my non-technical wife.

Vendetta9076,
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Ive set a static IP manually in my router.

I quite like truenas Scale, but it wont work for everyone. I have my whole *arr stack hosted on it and vaultwarden was just something I learned I could do lol.

gredo,

Sadly my provider won't let that happen. Except I pay for it. Or are you not talking about the public IP?

gredo,

Sadly my provider won't let that happen. Except I pay for it. Or are you not talking about the public IP?

Vendetta9076,
@Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works avatar

No I am. You have to pay for a static ip?

gredo,

Yeah, in Germany if you don't have Internet over cable you get a flexible IP. Not sure how it is with ftth which we will get in a few weeks.

petrescatraian, (edited )

@gredo There is a clone of (actually 2 or 3: , which uses AP, , using it's own protocol and , using both AP and it's own, protocol).

Then there's , which is an alternative to

Edit: what I really find missing is an alternative to

gredo,

Thanks. I'm quite new to the fediverse, but really love the idea.

petrescatraian,

@gredo I think I am into a year almost, lol. I was looking for a Facebook alternative so there I am, on Friendica 😁

gredo,

How did you get your friends over?

petrescatraian, (edited )

@gredo I didn't, yet, haha. I'm still on Facebook, yet once they move to other platforms to chat on there, I will pull the plug.

I had one friend that got to Mastodon, then got bored by it, then there was another one that tried the very server I am on, currently. She didn't seem to stick either.

I try to keep the number of accounts on social networks low tho. I started to be more active on chat apps with friends and the like. Over here I am mostly posting news, pictures and commenting stuff around 😁

Edit: I'm still figuring out how to use this whole thing (the account) tbh. But I enjoy the features of it and try to maximize them to their full potential. For example there's no way you can add a title to your post on Facebook, format your text using BBCodes for instance (whether in posts, comments or on the profile), add inline images and other media (inside the text, like, you write something, add an image, then continue writing below it), follow RSS feeds directly etc.

notacat,

Is there an app to access friendica? Or just the website?

petrescatraian, (edited )

@notacat There are a couple of apps listed on their website, and there's also Relatica, created by one of the devs. This looks like the most modern Friendica dedicated client at the moment, although in beta. It is also cross-platform, or that's what the dev wants. But from what I understand, you can use Mastodon client apps as well (haven't tried tho).

gunnervi,
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I'm curious, what would a federated IMDB add to the experience for you?

petrescatraian,

@gunnervi maybe being something like Goodreads but for movies, I think

@gredo

gunnervi,
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yeah, i guess i can see that. personally i never really grokked goodreads but honestly I feel that way about most social media platforms so its definitely a me issue

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