Mastodon
Lemmy
Mastodon | Lemmy | |
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1,246 | 1,611 | |
48,414 | 13,837 | |
0.5% | 0.8% | |
10.0 | 9.7 | |
7 days ago | 7 days ago | |
Ruby | Rust | |
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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.
Mastodon
- Bluesky's Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
- Any social platforms not focused on algorithms?
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Bluesky OAuth2 Client, with Vanilla JavaScript
NOTE: Again... What the hell is a "PDS Server"? Well... Click here. For those using Mastodon is just like an "instance".
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Accounts Vulnerable Due to Google's OAuth Flaw
> A unique user ID that doesn’t change over time.
This is already in the spec for OpenID Connect: https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#Subjec...
And it's already recommended to rely on it and not the email to prevent issues such as: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHS...
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Gazzetta, an RSS Reader for Mastodon
Mastodon offers RSS feeds for users (e.g. https://mastodon.social/@primatologyxyz/with_replies.rss), but efforts to extend native RSS support seem to have gone stale (e.g. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21500).
However, there are RSS bridges like RSSHub (https://docs.rsshub.app/routes/social-media#mastodon) and OpenRSS (https://openrss.org/blog/mastodon-rss-feeds) that offer RSS feeds for the "Explore" and "Hashtag" sections for local instances.
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PeerTube mobile app: discover videos while caring for your attention
Do they not have trumpets where you live? Did "tooting one's own horn" imply breaking wind during the annual performance review? Far and away the most common use of "toot" is playing a note on a horn.
At one point, Gargron, the main guy behind Mastodon, even mentioned using a trumpet as the basis of Mastodon's logo branding: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/962
"Toot" also has the double entendre. In all my life, I've never heard anyone outside a playground use it to describe flatulence. In my personal experience, it's almost always been about the musical notes. I'm not in a band or otherwise around musicians more than the average person, either.
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Mastodon's weaknesses and how to fix them
So basically I couldn’t change it to lowercase on their interface, but when deleted I could not register it again.
And that in a nutshell is my experience with everything Mastodon :)
After years the issue is still open and makes the first impression of a lot of users pretty bad.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20487
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Thoughts on Bluesky
I'm kind of being doom'n'gloom, but unfortunately, this always seems to happen, and folks who previously disavowed Twitter/X when Elon took over still stuck around for 2 years.
I don't believe the whole "I don't know what server to pick" complaint about Mastodon, because the mainsite literally has a huge button that says "Join mastodon.social"[1]
[1] https://joinmastodon.org/
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Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
Highly recommend folks check out Mastodon as well - fully decentralized, no ads, no algo, no corporate control.
It is continuing to grow steadily and has tons of activity compared to a few years ago.
https://joinmastodon.org/
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25 Project Ideas from Beginner to Advanced with Open Source Contributions
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Lemmy
- Any social platforms not focused on algorithms?
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Reddit CEO Says Paywalls Are Coming Soon
Lemmy is an open source, federated forum system with lots of sites and users:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
https://lemmyverse.net/
It does not have as many users as Reddit, but a Reddit paywall might drive more users to Lemmy sites or other alternatives.
- Please help me find better blogs to read
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Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions
There already is a Reddit-like application that uses ActivityPub. It's called Lemmy (https://join-lemmy.org/).
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Dive Into The Reddit API: Full Guide and Controversy
Lemmy: A decentralized, open source platform that mirrors many of Reddit's features
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Reddit policy changes make sitewide protests nearly impossible
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
Lemmy is one such alternative. I follow a few instances.
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Radicle 1.0 – A Local-First, P2P Alternative to GitHub
Surprised no one mentioned ForgeFed [0]:
> ForgeFed is a federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools for the software development lifecycle and ecosystem. This includes repository hosting websites, issue trackers, code review applications, and more. ForgeFed provides a common substrate for people to create interoperable code collaboration websites and applications.
It's based on ActivityPub [1], the same protocol that powers Mastodon [2], Lemmy [3], and Pixelfed [4].
[0] https://forgefed.org/
[1] https://activitypub.rocks/
[2] https://joinmastodon.org/
[3] https://join-lemmy.org/
[4] https://pixelfed.org/
- Show HN: Hacker News but for state of the art research
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Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say
Lemmy is like Reddit and here because it has threaded comment discussions.
It's also federated, so you can pick a server you like and have discussions with users from various servers together.
https://join-lemmy.org/
Some Reddit apps switched to supporting Lemmy instead when they were kicked off the API.
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Decentralized Hacker News
Seems functionally similar to Lemmy: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
What are some alternatives?
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Friendica - Friendica Communications Platform
kbin - A reddit-like content aggregator and micro-blogging platform for the fediverse.