PixelFed uses the same federation protocol as Mastodon, which means Mastodon users can follow people on PixelFed and vice versa. You can try following a PixelFed account right now such as @Iancylkowski or @JoseMel or @connyduck
You can use PixelFed through a web browser, and there are also free open Android apps like @PixelDroid and FediLab (@apps).
Manyverse isn't part of the Fediverse, because it works very differently. It's part of the SSB (aka Scuttlebutt) network, and is trying to make SSB more user friendly.
However, the aim of Manyverse/SSB is very similar to the Fediverse: to decentralise social media. You may want to try it out!
Manyverse have just released their first desktop apps, so Manyverse is now available for all major platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, iOS). You can find out more and download the apps at:
I've previously posted that Manyverse is serverless, but this isn't quite true. It can be very difficult to reliably connect internet users peer-to-peer, so Manyverse uses special servers called "Rooms" to connect users. However, actual user data is not stored online, so data storage is still serverless. There's a video explaining Room servers at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5p0y_MWwDE
Intuitively, an architecture that flexibly brings together users, through centralising services like these "Room servers", with such users being otherwise independent, single-user entities that own their data, hosting, identity etc ... seems to be "the way".
@feditips
I use the Mastodon app for iOS and PC. I joined in June 2023 following the collapse of newTumbl. After some initial missteps, I’ve come to like Mastodon and the app quite a lot. (It’s so much better than Twitter.)
The one thing I miss is the ability to queue and schedule posts. I get around this by using Buffer.com, which is great, but in a perfect world I wouldn’t have to go to a separate website to create a queue. This is a feature I would love.
Some third party apps like Tusky and Fedilab have post schedulers. I can't think of one for iOS at the moment though?
There is actually a built-in post scheduler within Mastodon itself, but for some reason the Masto devs never built an interface for it, so it's been left entirely up to the third party apps to make it available.
There's an alternative version of Mastodon called "Mastodon Glitch Edition" (aka "glitch-soc" or just "Glitch"). Glitch is totally compatible with normal Mastodon, but adds experimental new features.
For example, Glitch instances let the admin alter the character limit, allow local posting, text formatting and lots of other stuff.
Many features in Glitch have eventually made their way into normal Mastodon after proving themselves stable and useful.
If you run your own Mastodon instance you can switch to Glitch, and switch back again if you don't like it.
(You may be wondering how this post is so long? It's because FediTips is on an instance that uses Glitch, and the instance character limit has been extended to 1000.)
Apparently the variable is deliberately obscured on vanilla Mastodon because the lead developer wanted to keep the timeline neater with uniform post lengths.
Fortunately non-vanilla Mastodon versions have made it easier to adjust 😁
I am suggesting avoiding the platform, as the platform developers are also the people who run the problematic instance (and they also promote another problematic instance on the "join lemmy" site).
A fork run by new developers might be a possibility though? (I am not a dev though, so I do not know how viable this is.)
If you go to the profile settings mentioned in step 1, you'll see a section called "Profile Metadata". Next to that is a bit of HTML code you can copy and paste into your website's code.
You may need to log in through your Mastodon server's website to do this.
@feditips@tanweerdar just anywhere in my personal sites code? My site is build using Pixieset so all I could do is make a embed code block and paste the code there. Would that work?
Do you have a WordPress blog? Did you know you can connect it to the Fediverse?
✅ There's a WordPress plugin which lets people on Mastodon (and the rest of the Fediverse) follow, share and comment on your blog. It's called ActivityPub For Wordpress and you can get it from here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub
The Tip for Not-root-WordPressers is „… you might just have the option to turn off mod_security totally for your domain which will restore access.“
From the View of a WP-Supporter it is really not a good Idea to deactivate a FireWall.
Isn‘t there an Option to change the Method of the Access in a future Version?
The desktop version of Mastodon has two different interfaces: a single column Twitter-style one, and a multicolumn Tweetdeck-style one.
✅ To switch between Mastodon's desktop interfaces, go to Preferences > Appearance > Enable Advanced Web Interface. Selecting it activates multicolumn, unselecting it activates single column.
Multicolumn lets you add lots of additional columns, which may be handy for desktops on very wide monitors.