My top 🪐 #Fediverse App picks:
1. 🐘 #Mastodon
✍️ Microblogs
https://joinmastodon.org/
Many specific ones to choose from.
2. 🐼 #Pixelfed
📸 Images
https://pixelfed.org/
Main: https://pixelfed.social/
3. 🐙 #PeerTube
🎥 Videos
https://joinpeertube.org/
Main: https://tilvids.com/videos/overview
4. 🐉 #BookWrym
📚 Books
https://joinbookwyrm.com/
Main: https://bookwyrm.social/
5. 🐳#Funkwhale
🎵 Music
https://funkwhale.audio/#get-started
Instance List:
https://network.funkwhale.audio/dashboards/d/overview/funkwhale-network-overview?orgId=1&refresh=2h
Good one: https://audio.gafamfree.party/library/artists
1. 🐘 #Mastodon
✍️ Microblogs
https://joinmastodon.org/
Many specific ones to choose from.
2. 🐼 #Pixelfed
📸 Images
https://pixelfed.org/
Main: https://pixelfed.social/
3. 🐙 #PeerTube
🎥 Videos
https://joinpeertube.org/
Main: https://tilvids.com/videos/overview
4. 🐉 #BookWrym
📚 Books
https://joinbookwyrm.com/
Main: https://bookwyrm.social/
5. 🐳#Funkwhale
🎵 Music
https://funkwhale.audio/#get-started
Instance List:
https://network.funkwhale.audio/dashboards/d/overview/funkwhale-network-overview?orgId=1&refresh=2h
Good one: https://audio.gafamfree.party/library/artists
Ombra 🔵🌻
in reply to Ombra 🔵🌻 • • •If you can think of a good reason to check out the others please let me know why 🙂
Some aren't just microblogging, but do other things too.
These are the other apps available:
#Diaspora #Pleroma #Friendica #GnuSocial #HubZilla #Misskey
smallcircles (Humane Tech Now)
in reply to Ombra 🔵🌻 • • •This is great, but has its downsides. Their dominant position, though deserved, means they increasingly dictate the direction of the fediverse, and other apps need to play catch-up (this effect is called post-facto interoperability). There's risk they'll be the (decentralized) GMail of the fedi. And there are other downsides as well. See:
https://mastodon.social/@humanetech/108231008034439377
PS. Pixelfed is very polished as well
Humane Tech Now (@humanetech@mastodon.social)
MastodonOmbra 🔵🌻
in reply to smallcircles (Humane Tech Now) • • •I literally just signed up to Pixelfed and it is indeed super polished, the new dark mode UI is lovely too.
FediTips has moved!
in reply to Ombra 🔵🌻 • • •I know this takes a bit of time to get used to, but federated platforms aren't in competition with each other.
When one federated platform grows, that also increases the audience for the other platforms that federate with it. As long as cross-platform federation is maintained, then success of one platform helps the others.
Because of this co-operative nature, you really don't need to check which Fedi platform has the most users when deciding which one to use.
To take it to an extreme, if a developer created a Fedi platform for themselves that literally no one else used, but it was still compatible with Mastodon etc... well then, they can be just as social as anyone on Mastodon, because they can still follow people, people can follow them etc.
The Fediverse co-operates because because it helps us all, but sincere co-operation is a concept that doesn't exist in Twitter, Facebook etc.
Ryuno-Ki
in reply to FediTips has moved! • • •@Ombra @humanetech
smallcircles (Humane Tech Now)
in reply to Ryuno-Ki • • •https://small-tech.org
The wonderful realization that #SmallIsBeautiful and in fact that #SmallIsHuge 🤯
Home
Small Technology FoundationRyuno-Ki
in reply to smallcircles (Humane Tech Now) • • •Laura is giving more talks, it seems.
Hopefully I can meet her at a Smashing event one day.
@feditips @Ombra @aral @laura
Ombra 🔵🌻
in reply to Ryuno-Ki • • •Love there stuff!
Funnily enough they just moved from the city where I currently live (Cork), and are now only 2 hours away (in Kilkenny judging by their about page: https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology) 😅
Small world.
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Small Technology FoundationAral Balkan
in reply to Ombra 🔵🌻 • • •Ombra 🔵🌻
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •You can get kicked out of your home rental here extremely easily.
Even just for “renovations”, or a family member wants to live there - are common ones.
Rentals aren’t really considered homes here unfortunately 😞
Aral Balkan
in reply to Ombra 🔵🌻 • • •(I checked a few weeks ago and there was 1 rental property available in Kilkenny. In a city of, ~22,000 people. At the Ana time, there were over a dozen AirBnBs.)
Ombra 🔵🌻
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •It’s why many people now live with their parents even with a child until they can afford a mortgage.
The housing crisis has really highlighted the poor rental rights in Ireland.
I’m hoping Eoin Ó Broin from Sinn Fein will make some radical change as the next housing minister if SF get in of course.