instances
Mastodon instances list (by TheKinrar)
browser_extension
A browser extension that redirects popular sites to alternative privacy friendly frontends (by libredirect)
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| instances | browser_extension | |
|---|---|---|
| 183 | 171 | |
| 230 | 2,957 | |
| - | 1.2% | |
| 4.1 | 8.9 | |
| 7 months ago | 14 days ago | |
| JavaScript | JavaScript | |
| GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
instances
Posts with mentions or reviews of instances.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-28.
- How do I find more niche, smaller mastodon servers?
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Achan has a threads account now
Mastodon
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What's mastodon?
A good way to find an instance that works for you is the site: Mastodon instances https://instances.social/
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Suggesting Mastodon for the academic community.
Firstly, you can start by searching for instances of interest here.
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Mastodon has reached 13M accounts
The latter. Source is at https://github.com/gallizoltan/usercount which states:
> A bot which counts users from all instances listed at https://instances.social then posts statistics to Mastodon.
> User Count Bot for all known Mastodon instances
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For members of "science twitter" who are opposed to Twitter's recently deployed content-wall - what are some alternative platforms that help academics openly share and discuss scientific research?
For those on the fence, but know more about how instances work, this resource may help you pick a relevant one. There is also this Github resource that enlists all academia-based instances.
- Newbie problem
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Any Indigenous Mastodon Servers To Join?
I used this site for finding specialized Mastodon servers. I used a variety of search string and did not find any Mastodon servers specialized to Indigenous People's concerns.
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Why Reddit is no longer my home on the internet
Go to this place to find a place to sign up: https://instances.social/
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Migration Guide / Plan
Find and join communities in Reddit alternatives. Here's a list of Mastodon communities, and here's an online tool to find and parse through the different Mastodon communities. This is a list of popular Lemmy servers. However, do keep an eye out as some existing subreddit's moderators may create new communities on these sites.
browser_extension
Posts with mentions or reviews of browser_extension.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-26.
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Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe
Most of the time you can just replace twitter.com with nitter.net or nitter.it but when these instances are down or blocked you can use other instances listed here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
But as the other commenter said Libredirect is the way to go: https://libredirect.github.io/
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I hear we’re a dictatorship now, Father
The LibRedirect extension can redirect Twitter links to Nitter, and redirects a bunch of other sites to better privacy-friendly alternatives.
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Dan Parker has sold off Yugipedia and YGOrganization, nine months after the Yugipedia Lost Incident
You can use https://libredirect.github.io/ to automatically redirect to a Breezewiki instance, but I'm not sure if LibRedirect would interact with YGOWiki Redirector or Indie Wiki Buddy.
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Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end
You can embed videos from an Invidious instance instead; on a video's page[1] there's an "embed video" link[2] you can use. The instance can be one hosted by you if you don't trust public ones, and you probably want to enable proxying by default if you don't want your clients to stream the video directly from Google's servers. You can also use a browser extension like libredirect[3] to automatically replace YouTube embeds with Invidious ones while browsing the web.
[1]: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xzTH_ZqaFKI
[2]: https://yewtu.be/embed/xzTH_ZqaFKI
[3]: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
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Show HN: Firefox add-on to open YouTube videos in alternative front ends
As others mentioned: https://libredirect.github.io/
- John Carmack on AI
- Show HN: uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions
- LibRedirect - A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and other websites to alternative privacy friendly frontends
What are some alternatives?
When comparing instances and browser_extension you can also consider the following projects:
Lemmy - 🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
privacy-redirect - A simple web extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram & Google Maps requests to privacy friendly alternatives.
PixelFed - Photo Sharing. For Everyone.
alternative-front-ends - Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms (e.g. YouTube, Twitter, etc.)
gotosocial - Fast, fun, small ActivityPub server.
Redirector - Browser extension (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Edge) to redirect urls based on regex patterns, like a client side mod_rewrite.
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
nitter - Alternative Twitter front-end
farside - A smart redirecting gateway for various frontend services
Socialhome - A federated social home
ping-blocker - Stop sites from tracking the links you visit through hyperlink auditing
instances vs Lemmy
browser_extension vs privacy-redirect
instances vs PixelFed
browser_extension vs alternative-front-ends
instances vs gotosocial
browser_extension vs Redirector
instances vs Mastodon
browser_extension vs nitter
instances vs nitter
browser_extension vs farside
instances vs Socialhome
browser_extension vs ping-blocker