What Fediverse services do you use?
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Do all filters have that 3 level system? Blocking all, most, or none of a certain topic? Because that is a Feature, capital F Feature.
Also, do you know of an alternative front-end for Piefed? I use alexandrite.app for Lemmy, there's also phtn.app. Does Piefed have something like that?
It has front ends but it's inbuilt.
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By now: Yeah, there are some nice creators on PeerTube. Overall, it feels a bit more like old YouTube, many more people just creating because they want to, instead of chasing fame, as well as bizarre and weird little videos here and there. One advantage of it: It has much better native embedding into Lemmy (at least on newer versions)!
Much like in other fedi-places, it's work to curate your own feed instead of having algorithms feed you. I have ADHD, so usually, I have some video or something running on my second screen while working on other stuff, and whenever my attention is spent, I switch to there and scour the recent or trending feed (or new vids from subscribers) for something interesting to share and watch.
For anyone interested - I am always happy to plug [email protected] - we recently hit 200 subscribers and have been steadily growing. If you are looking for an instance to join, I am still tinkering with it, but mine is open to new applications for as long as the server resources allow.
Hmmm, I see... I'm interested in getting into PeerTube and dropping YT, partially, at least, so that's good to know.
I see you talk about EU regulations in your instance. Is it hosted in the EU? If that's the case, I'd love to join it!
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Yeah its totally my setup sorry! I had some issues with openAI and amazon just slamming my servers so had to make it harder for them to get content.
Dang ://
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It has front ends but it's inbuilt.
Hmmm, I see...
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/57576884
There's so many ways to interact with the Fediverse. The most popular, by far, seems to be Mastodon, but Lemmy, Misskey, and Pixelfed are also relatively popular. Kbin used to be popular, but it has apparently been abandoned, and is mostly dead at this point.
I recently learned that Mbin is a thing, checked it out, and it looked really cool! Has anyone used it? How different is it from Lemmy? I hear they have better integration with Mastodon.
What Fediverse services do you actually, regularly use?
For me, it's mostly Lemmy, though I do hop on Mastodon every now and then.
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Hmmm, I see... I'm interested in getting into PeerTube and dropping YT, partially, at least, so that's good to know.
I see you talk about EU regulations in your instance. Is it hosted in the EU? If that's the case, I'd love to join it!
I see you talk about EU regulations in your instance. Is it hosted in the EU? If that’s the case, I’d love to join it!
Yupp, hosted in Finland over a German provider (Hetzner)
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/57576884
There's so many ways to interact with the Fediverse. The most popular, by far, seems to be Mastodon, but Lemmy, Misskey, and Pixelfed are also relatively popular. Kbin used to be popular, but it has apparently been abandoned, and is mostly dead at this point.
I recently learned that Mbin is a thing, checked it out, and it looked really cool! Has anyone used it? How different is it from Lemmy? I hear they have better integration with Mastodon.
What Fediverse services do you actually, regularly use?
For me, it's mostly Lemmy, though I do hop on Mastodon every now and then.
What Fediverse services do you actually, regularly use?
I am an instance administrator for three Friendica instances, Mastodon glitch-soc and Lemmy. I am also a moderator for three large Mastodon instances, Pixelfed and Flohmarkt...
Putting the software I use the most in the first place, I would say I use:
1) Mastodon, that is my historical account @informapirata (Mastodon is really immediate) and Friendica (the most complete experience even if less ergonomic)
2) Mastodon glitch-soc (immediate like Mastodon, but with formatting)
3) Lemmy (fast and with the best layout in the fediverse)
4) Peertube
6) Pixelfed, Mbin, Pleroma, Misskey, Piefed, Bonfire etc that I use mostly for testing
7) Flohmarkt that I started using only a few weeks ago -
I see you talk about EU regulations in your instance. Is it hosted in the EU? If that’s the case, I’d love to join it!
Yupp, hosted in Finland over a German provider (Hetzner)
Well, I'm in there!!!!
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You're a mime?! That's so cool!
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What Fediverse services do you actually, regularly use?
I am an instance administrator for three Friendica instances, Mastodon glitch-soc and Lemmy. I am also a moderator for three large Mastodon instances, Pixelfed and Flohmarkt...
Putting the software I use the most in the first place, I would say I use:
1) Mastodon, that is my historical account @informapirata (Mastodon is really immediate) and Friendica (the most complete experience even if less ergonomic)
2) Mastodon glitch-soc (immediate like Mastodon, but with formatting)
3) Lemmy (fast and with the best layout in the fediverse)
4) Peertube
6) Pixelfed, Mbin, Pleroma, Misskey, Piefed, Bonfire etc that I use mostly for testing
7) Flohmarkt that I started using only a few weeks agoYou're deep into the Fediverse!
Flohmarkt is an interesting concept, I've heard of it before, but I don't know much about.
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/57576884
There's so many ways to interact with the Fediverse. The most popular, by far, seems to be Mastodon, but Lemmy, Misskey, and Pixelfed are also relatively popular. Kbin used to be popular, but it has apparently been abandoned, and is mostly dead at this point.
I recently learned that Mbin is a thing, checked it out, and it looked really cool! Has anyone used it? How different is it from Lemmy? I hear they have better integration with Mastodon.
What Fediverse services do you actually, regularly use?
For me, it's mostly Lemmy, though I do hop on Mastodon every now and then.
Rebased
Mastodon
Akkoma
Soapbox
Lemmy
I also have Lotide accounts but I don't use them very much. I also have an emergency alt on Nostr which federates via Mostr but IDK if y'all are counting that as being part of the Fediverse.
Also Kbin was superceded by Mbin
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You're deep into the Fediverse!
Flohmarkt is an interesting concept, I've heard of it before, but I don't know much about.
You’re deep into the Fediverse!
Yes...
"E il naufragar m'è dolce in questo mare... 
" Flohmarkt is an interesting concept, I’ve heard of it before, but I don’t know much about.
at the moment it is very little: it is almost touching for how basic it is in its functions! it even lacks the RSS feed which is a constant for almost all the software of the Fediverse...
However I am convinced that it could have a very interesting development in the medium and long term
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How's Pixelfed's federation work? I thought it was an image-based thing, like Instagram, so how does that interop with, say, Lemmy?
I was using Loops pretty heavily for a while
Is that like TikTok? Or like Reels, I guess, since it's Pixelfed. A shame it doesn't work for you... I'm big on TikTok, might just give it a try, though I'm not sure I can find the content I want on such a niche platform.
PieFed and it looks really nice. Probably the best Lemmy threadiverse alternative atm.
Over Lemmy? Why do you say so? I see what they list as differences from Lemmy and some of the features seem pretty nice, but I'm skeptical of this reputation business. Feels a little like Reddit karma, I don't know.
PieFed is more advanced than Lemmy in several ways, while less so in others.
Like for one it offers fantastic onboarding to the Fediverse via a wizard asking users what topics they are interested in and then signs them up to communities.
And for another, at any time users can view Categories of Communities, such as all things Fediverse, News & Politics, or Gaming, and now users can even create our own customized Feeds - all of this is in addition to rather than instead of the traditional Subscribed and All feeds.
Users can also follow anything - a user, community, post, single comment, etc. - plus stop following comments that you've written but no longer wish to receive notifications for.
It's REALLY cool! The major downsides revolve around it being newer and so a bit less polished, like there's now a post preview feature but that is not yet available for comment replies.
The codebase is written in Python, so is possible for more people to help out with making changes than Lemmy, written in Rust. Some people wonder if it might not scale as well to larger number of users, but so far that is not a problem and the speed of updates seems well worth that trade-off.
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Do all filters have that 3 level system? Blocking all, most, or none of a certain topic? Because that is a Feature, capital F Feature.
Also, do you know of an alternative front-end for Piefed? I use alexandrite.app for Lemmy, there's also phtn.app. Does Piefed have something like that?
A port of Thunder has been made, ready for testing.
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You’re deep into the Fediverse!
Yes...
"E il naufragar m'è dolce in questo mare... " Flohmarkt is an interesting concept, I’ve heard of it before, but I don’t know much about.
at the moment it is very little: it is almost touching for how basic it is in its functions! it even lacks the RSS feed which is a constant for almost all the software of the Fediverse...
However I am convinced that it could have a very interesting development in the medium and long term
it even lacks the RSS feed
Oh boy... Well... I'll keep tabs on it!
Maybe soon!!
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PieFed is more advanced than Lemmy in several ways, while less so in others.
Like for one it offers fantastic onboarding to the Fediverse via a wizard asking users what topics they are interested in and then signs them up to communities.
And for another, at any time users can view Categories of Communities, such as all things Fediverse, News & Politics, or Gaming, and now users can even create our own customized Feeds - all of this is in addition to rather than instead of the traditional Subscribed and All feeds.
Users can also follow anything - a user, community, post, single comment, etc. - plus stop following comments that you've written but no longer wish to receive notifications for.
It's REALLY cool! The major downsides revolve around it being newer and so a bit less polished, like there's now a post preview feature but that is not yet available for comment replies.
The codebase is written in Python, so is possible for more people to help out with making changes than Lemmy, written in Rust. Some people wonder if it might not scale as well to larger number of users, but so far that is not a problem and the speed of updates seems well worth that trade-off.
I see... You make a compelling argument, to be honest, and those are some nice features. I really like this custom Feed thing.
I'm definitely delving into Piefed in the coming days.
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/57576884
There's so many ways to interact with the Fediverse. The most popular, by far, seems to be Mastodon, but Lemmy, Misskey, and Pixelfed are also relatively popular. Kbin used to be popular, but it has apparently been abandoned, and is mostly dead at this point.
I recently learned that Mbin is a thing, checked it out, and it looked really cool! Has anyone used it? How different is it from Lemmy? I hear they have better integration with Mastodon.
What Fediverse services do you actually, regularly use?
For me, it's mostly Lemmy, though I do hop on Mastodon every now and then.
In random order
Loops
Peertube very sparingly. Youtube is still king.
Lemmy. Nuked my 14 year old Reddit account today. Lemmy is great.
Pixelfed
Mastodon
Wordpress if that is counted as federated -
In random order
Loops
Peertube very sparingly. Youtube is still king.
Lemmy. Nuked my 14 year old Reddit account today. Lemmy is great.
Pixelfed
Mastodon
Wordpress if that is counted as federatedGosh, I have to try out Loops...
Lemmy. Nuked my 14 year old Reddit account today. Lemmy is great.
NGL, I think Lemmy is better than Reddit. I enjoy it more. I can't put my finger on why, though... They're basically the same... Maybe it's just a UI issue.
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I see... You make a compelling argument, to be honest, and those are some nice features. I really like this custom Feed thing.
I'm definitely delving into Piefed in the coming days.
It is very much worth checking out, yes!
I use it as my daily driver. Some functions, like searching for posts, are abysmally bad - but thankfully that's the only one in that category. For me who can hop over to a Lemmy alt when I need to, PieFed is a great main. Another downside is that often I receive a notification for something that I cannot see, for a variety of reasons including that I've blocked all users from an instance (but hey, on PieFed that's actually possible in the first place!).
PieFed is definitely still in alpha, though ironically a better experience than Lemmy in many ways for all of that, even though a more frustrating one in other ways. An API is currently being tested using the Thunder app, which should help smooth the usability issues.
My advice: most definitely make a PieFed account - you have nothing to lose there - and also hold onto your older one. You'll use it less and less often, you'll see:-). There is a bit of a learning curve though, since PieFed offers so many new features and you'll want to try out this and that to see what works best for you. e.g. for some lower-volume communities, I have notifications set up to receive every single new post, rather than have to wait to find that while scrolling Subscribed or All. It really helps! (But can be quite overwhelming for higher-volume communities - the better way now could be to create a custom topic Feed, which I haven't tried yet but that's awesome that I now can:-).
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Gosh, I have to try out Loops...
Lemmy. Nuked my 14 year old Reddit account today. Lemmy is great.
NGL, I think Lemmy is better than Reddit. I enjoy it more. I can't put my finger on why, though... They're basically the same... Maybe it's just a UI issue.
