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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by gredo@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

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?

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[-] KelsonV@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

#Bookwyrm is a book review site like Goodreads

#WriteFreely is a blogging service, and Medium is actually working on Fediverse integration.

[-] ram@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

I personally love Bookwyrm!

[-] V4uban@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

First time I hear about Bookwyrm, looks interesting

[-] casey@lemmy.wiuf.net 2 points 1 year ago

I'm so tired of goodreads emailing me since 2012 xD I should've hit unsubscribe years ago..

[-] ram@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] 0x1C3B00DA@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

there is an initiative for federated git "forges" called ForgeFed. I'm on mobile but will find some links when I'm on desktop

[-] ram@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Oh, I just found it! This is cool and I'm glad it exists โ™ฅ

[-] 0xCAFE@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Also Gitea is working on federation support using ActivityPub.

[-] gredo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] pancake@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Here is an exhaustive list of fedi projects. Enjoy!

[-] gredo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks a lot!

[-] petrescatraian@libranet.de 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@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

[-] gredo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks. I'm quite new to the fediverse, but really love the idea.

[-] petrescatraian@libranet.de 1 points 1 year ago

@gredo I think I am into a year almost, lol. I was looking for a Facebook alternative so there I am, on Friendica ๐Ÿ˜

[-] gredo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

How did you get your friends over?

[-] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@gredo I didn't, yet, haha. I'm still on Facebook, yet once they move to other platforms to chat on there, I will pull the plug.

I had one friend that got to Mastodon, then got bored by it, then there was another one that tried the very server I am on, currently. She didn't seem to stick either.

I try to keep the number of accounts on social networks low tho. I started to be more active on chat apps with friends and the like. Over here I am mostly posting news, pictures and commenting stuff around ๐Ÿ˜

Edit: I'm still figuring out how to use this whole thing (the account) tbh. But I enjoy the features of it and try to maximize them to their full potential. For example there's no way you can add a title to your post on Facebook, format your text using BBCodes for instance (whether in posts, comments or on the profile), add inline images and other media (inside the text, like, you write something, add an image, then continue writing below it), follow RSS feeds directly etc.

[-] notacat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Is there an app to access friendica? Or just the website?

[-] petrescatraian@libranet.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@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).

[-] gunnervi@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm curious, what would a federated IMDB add to the experience for you?

[-] petrescatraian@libranet.de 3 points 1 year ago

@gunnervi maybe being something like Goodreads but for movies, I think

@gredo

[-] gunnervi@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

yeah, i guess i can see that. personally i never really grokked goodreads but honestly I feel that way about most social media platforms so its definitely a me issue

[-] bender@insaneutopia.com 1 points 1 year ago

Its still early. It needs time to mature.

[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

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 :)

[-] gredo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] gredo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I know traefik, need to check out the scale machine though. How can I access it though if I don't have a static IP and no DNS? I might use my routers VPN, but that wouldn't work for my non-technical wife.

[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Ive set a static IP manually in my router.

I quite like truenas Scale, but it wont work for everyone. I have my whole *arr stack hosted on it and vaultwarden was just something I learned I could do lol.

[-] gredo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sadly my provider won't let that happen. Except I pay for it. Or are you not talking about the public IP?

[-] gredo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sadly my provider won't let that happen. Except I pay for it. Or are you not talking about the public IP?

[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

No I am. You have to pay for a static ip?

[-] gredo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, in Germany if you don't have Internet over cable you get a flexible IP. Not sure how it is with ftth which we will get in a few weeks.

[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Wait do you not have a router? Or do you mean its satalite internet.

[-] gredo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well it's a little complicated. I have a router, but there are several different ways to get internet to your home where I live.

  1. (default and oldest way) through the telephone network of cables and your phone cable that comes into your house
  2. Cable TV cable (coax) that comes into your house (I currently only have Sat TV here, and no cable
  3. LTE/5G
  4. FTTH is currently rolled out in smaller cities and I will get it in a few weeks.
[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Huh. That all seems wildly complicated to me but thats just since I don't live with the system.

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