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9,389 | 5,374 | |
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10.0 | 9.9 | |
about 9 hours ago | 11 days ago | |
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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.
Misskey
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Now, you can embed Mastodon posts in Medium stories
on Misskey: https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey/issues/9504
There is a lot of resistance to the idea. The browser UX for registering protocols is not particularly intuitive. The protocol should not be named after Mastodon because they are defensive of their trademark, and it wouldn't be accurate since the user identifier could be followed from any ActivityPub compatible software.
If you look at the newer comments on the Mastodon github thread I posted you can see web+ap:// recommended, or apub://
I think there just needs to be enough collective will to make this happen. Likely another project will need to take the lead because Mastodon team has decided the browser UX is too much of a barrier. Maybe glitch-soc can do a proof of concept.
- Tumblr-like blogging/microblogging
- Misskey: An Interplanetary Microblogging Platform
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Facebook Censored Me for Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon
* in case of a mute, it could also be not wanting their federated timeline to be flooded with primarily mastodon.social posts
Lack of federation between these instances and mastodon.social could be a reason not to pick mastodon.social. (Similar situation applies to mastodon.online btw, which is a spin-off server of m.s.)
Another reason to pick a different instance could be not wanting to use mainline Mastodon software. For example because you want to run your own instance on limited hardware (Mastodon can get a bit resource intensive), don't like Ruby, miss certain features, don't like the front-end (though alternative external front-ends to Mastodon do exist), or some other reason.
Personally I am on an instance that runs [Mastodon Glitch Edition, also known as Glitch-Soc](https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/), which is a compatible fork of Mastodon which implements a bunch of nice features such as increased post character count (Mastodon defaults to 500 characters per post, Glitch-Soc supports increasing this in the server settings), Markdown support (though only instances that also support HTML-formatted posts will see your formatting; mainline Mastodon servers will serve a stripped down version of your post instead), and improved support for filters / content warnings / toot collapsing, optional warnings when posting uncaptioned media, and other additional features.
Another alternative Mastodon fork is [Hometown](https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown) which focuses more on the local timeline (showing posts only from your own instance) with the addition of local-only posts, to nurture a tighter knit community.
Aside from Mastodon there are other implementations of ActivityPub which can still federate with Mastodon instances, such as [Misskey](https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey), [diaspora*](https://diasporafoundation.org/) (which AFAIK inspired Google Plus back in the day), [Hubzilla](https://hubzilla.org//page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project), [Peertube](https://joinpeertube.org/) (focused on peer-to-peer video distribution), [Friendica](https://friendi.ca/), [Pleroma](https://pleroma.social/), [Socialhome](https://socialhome.network/), [GoToSocial](https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial), [Pixelfed](https://pixelfed.org/) (which started as a sort of federated Instagram alternative) and more. [Fediverse.party](https://fediverse.party/) is a nice way to discover various protocols that make up the bigger Fediverse.
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Aave Plans To Build “Twitter on Ethereum”
We already have working decentralized social media. Just take systems based on Activity Pub and have a Federation of servers and communities. Plenty of mature systems like Pleroma, Mastodon, write.as, Misskey to choose from.
PixelFed
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024)
Currently contributing to Pixelfed project to gain experience: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pulls?q=is%3Aclosed+is%...
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Is there an image gallery interface for Mastodon?
There's https://pixelfed.org/
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Your privacy is optional
I do post many pictures, but I am tempted to self-host Pixelfed as well as an Instagram alternative.
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Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?
Is something like Pixelfed an option?
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Lemmy/Fediverse Terms Explained
Fediverse, or 'federated universe' is the name given to the social media platforms that utilize this concept of federation and decentralization. While Lemmy and Mastodon are the most popular right now, there are many similar platforms. There is Peertube for example, which is a Youtube alternative, or Pixelfed, which is an instagram alternative. You can view a list of all such platforms on this site. Here's also a visual representation that might help.
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Lemmy instance for കേരളം related topics [Any plans/chance for a lemmy branch of L_S?]
Pixelfed(like instagram) https://pixelfed.org/
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ATTENTION USERS: further updates on Reddit fucking over 3rd party mobile apps and their users include formally announced deaths of apps on June 30th and sitewide protests from June 12-14th (at the minimum).
PixelFed
- Sync for Reddit will shutdown on June 30, 2023
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📣 Apollo will close down on June 30th. Reddit’s recent decisions and actions have unfortunately made it impossible for Apollo to continue. Thank you so, so much for all the support over the years. ❤️
Corporation-controlled social media keeps self-destructing, I'm really tired of it. Not that they are the same as Reddit at all, but I'm glad that at least Mastodon, PixelFed, and the Fediverse at large are still an option.
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Reddit Laying Off About 90 Employees and Slowing Hiring Amid Restructuring: Moves aim to help social-media company break even next year
More and more dissatisfied Twitter users are finding Mastodon every day since that site began circling the drain under crappy new management, Instagram users are discovering Pixelfed, and now the federated link aggregator Lemmy is preparing for an influx of Redditors.
What are some alternatives?
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
FluxBB - FluxBB is a fast, light, user-friendly forum application for your website.
Photonix - A modern, web-based photo management server. Run it on your home server and it will let you find the right photo from your collection on any device. Smart filtering is made possible by object recognition, face recognition, location awareness, color analysis and other ML algorithms.
PiGallery 2 - A fast directory-first photo gallery website, with rich UI, optimized for running on low resource servers (especially on raspberry pi)
Friendica - Friendica Communications Platform
PeerTube - ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser
HumHub - HumHub is an Open Source Enterprise Social Network. Easy to install, intuitive to use and extendable with countless freely available modules.
instances - Mastodon instances list
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.