Other use cases for the fediverse
Other use cases for the fediverse
I never got into mastodon because I couldn't connect multiple instances. I like this a lot about Lemmy so far (just here for a few minutes though).
Reading about the fediverse got me thinking. What other use cases could you think of? Maybe outside social media?
Would a fediverse password manager be more or less secure than some company owned pm?
How about "clones" of other social media like FB and Insta, TikTok?
What about a blogging community like Medium?
Other ideas?
#Bookwyrm is a book review site like Goodreads
#WriteFreely is a blogging service, and Medium is actually working on Fediverse integration.
I personally love Bookwyrm!
First time I hear about Bookwyrm, looks interesting
I'm so tired of goodreads emailing me since 2012 xD I should've hit unsubscribe years ago..
Good choice of avatar 🤔
Here is an exhaustive list of fedi projects. Enjoy!
Thanks a lot!
I'd like to see a GitHub clone for the Fediverse that enabled the cross-instance forking of code. The recent goings-on with the FOSS Invidious make me worry about the future of all open-source software that tries to allow us some level of privacy. Putting it on a distributed network would be extremely beneficial to prevent megacorps from bullying such projects out of existence.
there is an initiative for federated git "forges" called ForgeFed. I'm on mobile but will find some links when I'm on desktop
Oh, I just found it! This is cool and I'm glad it exists ♥
I get what you're saying, but you can already get this with a little more work. Clone + Push to other self-hosted git server instance, e.g. Gitea.
But having an overview of publicly available Giteas where you can register and cross-instance fork more easily would be nice.
@gredo There is a clone of #Facebook (actually 2 or 3: #Friendica, which uses AP, #Diaspora, using it's own protocol and #Hubzilla, using both AP and it's own, #Zot protocol).
Then there's #Pixelfed, which is an alternative to #Instagram
Edit: what I really find missing is an alternative to #IMDb
Thanks. I'm quite new to the fediverse, but really love the idea.
@gredo I think I am into a year almost, lol. I was looking for a Facebook alternative so there I am, on Friendica 😁
Is there an app to access friendica? Or just the website?
@notacat There are a couple of apps listed on their website, and there's also Relatica, created by one of the devs. This looks like the most modern Friendica dedicated client at the moment, although in beta. It is also cross-platform, or that's what the dev wants. But from what I understand, you can use Mastodon client apps as well (haven't tried tho).
Its still early. It needs time to mature.
On the topic of a PM, its probably best to self host one. Any multi user PM, regardless of company or community backed, will become a target once its big enough. Vaultwarden takes an hour at most from scratch to host on a raspi. I highly reccomend it as a first time project :)
Does Vaultwarden do their own reverse-proxying, routing etc like e.g. Plex? I use my PM on my mobile all the time from everywhere and last time I tried setting up DynDNS or so it really didn't work. Maybe I need to invest more time.
Plex doesnt techincally do reverse proxy but I understand what you mean. Vaultwarden doesnt but its rather easy to set up. I haven't used DynDNS but I have mine running through traefik on my truenas scale machine. Grab a cheap domain, learn the minimum amount of networking and youre good to go. If you need any help you can pm me :). Scale makes the SSL cert delivery very easy but its not hard to do outside of scale either. Ive done it through both a Scale Box and just basic ass ubuntu server, so piOS should be easy as well given that you can run docker on it.