Which of the Fediverse projects are worth getting into? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by exelica@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I like Lemmy. Active development, lots of third party apps, active community, etc but what other Fediverse projects are worth getting into like this one?

For microblogging (Twitter), I know Mastodon is really popular but there are so many other microblogging options like Pleroma, Misskey, FireFish, etc that I don't know which one is really worth getting into (as a user, dev, or admin). Are any of these on par with Lemmy?

For video, there's PeerTube. The content isn't great at all and most servers struggle to pay bills. I think the YouTube replacement is a looong way to go.

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[-] otter@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago

As a user: Pixelfed is a nice replacement for Instagram. It's very clean and it captures what Instagram used to be years ago

It just needs users. Right now I'm following artists and creatives

[-] Bebo@literature.cafe 2 points 11 months ago

Are there mobile apps for pixelfed?

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

Yep! An official app and a few third party ones

https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps

The mobile site works fairly well if you don't want an appa

[-] Bebo@literature.cafe 2 points 11 months ago

That's good. What are your favourite apps that you would recommend?

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

I haven't tried that many of them, and I stuck with the official app because it felt the most familiar (feels like instagram)

So out of the ones I've tried, I'd recommend either the official app or the mobile site as they're more likely to have the latest features. Pixelfed's dev has been super fast with the improvements so it might be worth it?

[-] Crul@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I tried Pixelfed (very briefly) not so long ago. I didn't find a propper way to search for content. How do you discover new content?

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

I started with the 'Discover' page for some stuff, but I think I found most things by searching relevant hashtags. Once I had a few people followed, I also took a peek at who was resharing/liking/commenting to find more people. I haven't used it THAT much yet, but there's enough content to scroll through every now and then