Cool!, but the fedi software is not just that (especially #twitterverse ones). There are:
Gotosocial -> a small server first fediverse-server apps. You can spun it with just $4 vps and get a dedicates instance with features comparable to Mastodon.
Snac2 -> a smaller fediverse server apps, it even use less resources than Gotosocial, but the UI is so oldschool.
Microblog.pub -> a python-based single user focused server apps for tinkerers. It fully compatible with Fediverse/Mastodon with nice ui.
I tried all of them and still use both Gotosocial and and Snac2 instances daily, and they are a nice piece of software for their own use-case. Granted, all of these list above is not straightforward to use, but can you add that on advanced category. It feels unfair if it just the usual trio (Mastodon, Misskey/Calkey, Pleroma/Akkoma) that has exposure in the forum. thx.
Indeed. This is, at best, scratching the surface. My aim was to create a list that ticked most of these boxes:
Alternatives to existing services - this is a question that comes up often so I thought there might as well be a list of the popular ones.
Relatively well developed and simple to use.
Has a user-friendly website that makes it easy for ordinary users to jump onboard (why Hubzilla didn’t make the list)
Granted, all of these list above is not straightforward to use, but can you add that on advanced category.
That’s where posts like yours come in useful - my list is just the easy on-ramp and then people can add in great resources like that which help people push on and do more. It’s kind of where I’ll be going next in my journey, so I am grateful for the post. If you, or anyone else, have more advanced services them keep them coming.
When Google+ shut,.I moved to diaspora and didn’t do very much with it.
When the great Twitter exodus happened, I signed up to Mastodon and didn’t get this federated business so wandered off.
Now with the API apocalypse at Reddit, I am here and I get it. It now all makes sense to me and I’ve been seeing how federated I can get, which is the background to ye research that went into the initial post. And the answer is “pretty federated” as everything is playing nicely with each other. In fact, I am feeling borderline evangelical as this feels like the Internet I’ve been waiting for since the late 80s/early 90. So let’s skip Web 3.0 and move on to 4.0 where everything is federated!
Me too. When I first looked at Mastodon I was like “oh those addresses are weird that will never work” for some lame, resistant to change reason. Now I’m like “bring on the alphabet soup links and whatever quirks I don’t care, the fediverse is awesome!.”
Me too. And I was all “there are different servers with different groups on them? Like that’s going to work!” But it does. In fact, it can be seen as a strength.
I’d love to hear your feedback as it looks like an interesting Twitch alternative. I didn’t include it on the list as it doesn’t look to be as straightforward to get streaming on it compared to the set-up of others on the list.
I don’t stream myself so I can’t speak for that side of things, but just for watching streams the software seems fine but there’s not much content. Same story as a lot of Fediverse systems.
Maybe once the Lemmy/kbin threaded Fediverse takes off (which I think has the potential to be the first federated network to eclipse its centralized counterparts) there can be some synergy with these other platforms that can help them get more users.
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