> Mastodon-the-software is used by far by the most people on fedi. The biggest instance, mastodon.social, is home to over 200.000 active accounts as of this writing. This is roughly 1/10th of the whole #Fediverse, on a single instance.
> Worse, Mastodon-the-software is often identified as the whole social network, obscuring the fact that Fediverse is a much broader system comprised of a much more diverse software.
@rysiek the Fediverse is much more than just Mastodon, you say 🤔 are you refering to Funkwhale for music libraries for example? #funkwhale at this stage has proved not to be usable for me. It has bugs.
@cliffwade The main account I use is this one, while my second account is @queenslight, since I finally found a decent accessible interface for #Misskey called WhaleBird.
I am planning to join a #FunkWhale instance too, for sharing random AI TTS skits I do from time to time.
@cliffwade Only 1 so far. I may create a few others though. #PeerTube for hiking/off-roading vids, #FunkWhale for some of my old music, #Calckey for a Masto alternative if feature and UI improvements stay dead in the water.
I don't think people appreciate the role that #OperaSoftware played in fostering the #OpenWeb and #IndieWeb during the first #browserWar (when the #OperaBrowser was still built on their proprietary #Presto engine), and a fortiori the role it had in their demise (when they switched to being “just another #WebKit/#Blink skin”), despite their browser never even reaching a 3% market share.
I have no problems imagining a different timeline, where #ActivityPub had been already a better-established thing, and the demo #OperaUnite applications for media and photo sharing had implemented basic support for it, resulting in self-hosted lightweight alternatives to #PixelFed or #FunkWhale.
And this is actually the vision I have an ultimate goal for the #Fediverse, one where, thanks also to client support, hosting and participation become even more trivial than setting up a static website.
Chances are most of you know about some big names in #OpenSource and #Privacy, but there’s one FOSS champion you might not know: @Framasoft
They offer a bunch of services that are all open source, free to use, collect no data whatsoever, and that can help you replace some of big tech’s services. And a lot of them don’t even require an account!
So, let’s look at who they are, what they do, and the services you can use from them!
@thelinuxEXP makes sense. I just subscribed to the Peertube channel from Mastodon and like this solution! This is what I call connecting accounts accross the Fediverse. I wish it was possible with @funkwhale#funkwhale
Curious what #blind people are using for #accessible#Mastodon apps on #Android out of interest? I'm using the stock app at the moment but it's a bit meh.
If Mastodon is Twitter, Friendica is Facebook, and Lemmy is Reddit, but they're all communicating together, is there any real need to make different accounts unless we want to try out different features?
@sharan The difference is whether you are a user or a creator.
With the services you choose, it doesn't matter where you are. The situation is different with #Pixelfed#Funkwhale#Peertube etc.
If you are a creator, accounts there make perfect sense. for pure consumption, an account with whatever is enough.
I'm pretty sure that the #Fediverse is one of the first social networks I've been on that didn't ever ask me to betray any of the people in my address book.
Hier im Podcasts ab ca. Min. 15 werden auch noch mal von @Lioh einige Hintergründe zum Fediverse berichtet, an dem sie auch selbst aktiv mitentwickelt hat (auch sehr aufschlussreich in Bezug auf die aktuellen Zentralisierungs-Tendenzen im Fediverse)
Für alle Themen und Projekte gilt aber: gnulinux.ch ist ein Community-Projekt, an dem alle eingeladen und aufgerufen sind, mitzuwirken und selbst zu schreiben: gnulinux.ch/mitschreiben
Je mehr Perspektiven hier eingebracht werden, desto besser! @Kaiteki@caos
So noticing toots (replies) from my other Mastodon account are visible here. Is that true of my direct posts as well? If Calckey is not Mastodon based, feeling a little weird about that.🤔
@kainoa@Bobbo When I first realized that I could look at and interact with other services like #FunkWhale and #PixelFed right on my own timeline on Mastodon (and now Calckey), it finally clicked - it's a very strange concept when we are all so used to each content provider walling themselves off, trying to keep you in their own spaces.
List of fedi platforms I have tried/use in no particular order:
#Mastodon
Probably most of you reading this is using it, but overall it's a fairly user friendly platform and has gotten people into the fediverse
#PixelFed
Tbh haven't used it much but it seems like it has good potential
Not my kind of thing, but for those who like things more like instagram I'd check it out
#Calckey
What I'm currently using, I really like it so far
It's beautiful and feature-rich
#PeerTube
I use it occasionally as it has some media I do enjoy, but I do wish more people would upload to it
#Funkwhale
Same issue with peertube, not having many people upload
Also felt kinda wonky to work with but may have been the instances I tried
I would like to end this by saying, try new things on fedi
It helps keep the ecosystem healthy and you may find something you like more
The more I use different #fediverse apps, the more I feel that we are on the edge of a different future, in the early stages of something that we haven't seen before.
In the last few months, I've used #Mastodon, #Misskey, #Calckey, #Funkwhale, #lemmy, #Peertube, #Bookwyrm and #Pixelfed. Soon, I'm going to try an install of #kbin. In the not too distant future, we will see #GreatApe bringing more options for video chat to the Fediverse. There are countless more platforms that I haven't had a chance to try.
The network formed by the interconnections between those apps is the Fediverse; a Federated Universe. Federated, because everything out there is connected with everything else, in one giant network. What I am truly beginning to appreciate is just how real that vision is, and just how disruptive to our future it's going to be. More than a truism, these the fediverse platforms really will allow us to see and interact with nearly anything else out there.
The platform we use no longer determines the information we can access; it doesn't build walls around us. Instead, what out choice of platform determines, is how we interact with information, rather than determining what information we are able interact with in the first place. The walls in the walled garden haven't so much been torn down, as simply never built.
I can write a blog post, and someone on Mastodon can reply to it. I can make a group post on lemmy, and someone from Calckey can reply to it. I can see an awesome photo on Pixelfed, bring it in to #Akkoma and boost it for everyone else to see. And then anyone who sees it can interact with it.
The cross platform interactions are still imperfect. Standards are still being developed, code is still being written and features are still being defined, but the future is right here, we are on the cusp of something new and amazing.
Of course, this is all old news to someone who has been part of the fediverse for years now, but it feels different now. The momentum is here, we are seeing a shift and I think once we cross that precipice, once we have normalised the cross channel interactions we are starting to develop, it's going to be very hard to go back.
Today I want to share with you brilliant album from band "Haken", called "Visions" https://funkwhale.agapimou.top/library/playlists/23
Charming music, I suggest that you listen to full album for better immersion :blobcatfluffhappy:
At first I thought to share this playlist from Youtube Music, but uploaded to #Funkwhale instead.
I can't wait for the new #mastodon users to realize they can follow profiles on #pixelfed or #funkwhale or other #fediverse sites right from #mastodon... No need to go to other sites to follow people...