ı think Lemmy and Mastodon

  • Mobocratic Egoist
    6•3 years ago

    I use Mastodon most regularly and Lemmy second. So far I haven’t seen a lot of good content on PeerTube.

    • @[email protected]
      2•3 years ago

      Actually the content on PeerTube is improving lately with more quality videos. A major current problem is that federation between PeerTube servers is low. Sometimes for understandable reasons. As a consequence the user often has to rely on something like Sepia Search to find content.

  • @[email protected]
    4•3 years ago

    I really enjoy Matrix at the moment. It’s got quite a large community and there’s a channel for everything.

      • @[email protected]
        3•3 years ago

        I’ve wondered more than once: why would “fediverse” only designate the ActivityPub ecosystem? The word does not convey this meaning, and there’s a growing numbers of gateways between ActivityPub and other federated platforms (eg. XMPP).

      • @[email protected]
        1•3 years ago

        I guess I got lucky and met some cool people there early on, I can send you a couple of good feeds to follow if you want. So, the only contacts I have post really cool and interesting things. oh and if anyone something remotely political, I immediately ignore them. Diaspora is sort of a vestige for me, back to what the internet used to be, free sharing of information, and nothing political at all haha

  • Kinetix
    2•3 years ago

    Friendica, Pleroma and Peertube, as far as I’m concerned.

    Lemmy’s quite interesting, too.

    • Kinetix
      1•3 years ago

      Ones that federate. Having the most users on one instance should essentially be meaningless - on the whole, it’s probably best to have them spread out amongst many instances.

    • @[email protected]
      1•3 years ago

      I’m only discussing instances here that have quality content. TILvids is big and it has quality content but it doesn’t federate with any other instance which kind of defeats the purpose of PeerTube. Better would be to join a PeerTube instance that federates with a proper number of other instances and has good quality e.g diode.zone.

      • Kinetix
        2•3 years ago

        I’ve been learning more lately about what ‘not federating’ means (for PT specifically)- and even with PT’s latest release, the lines of federating/not federating seem to be getting blurrier.

        Prior to 3.4, it seems (based on my limited recent experience with tilvids) that a user on one peertube instance could subscribe to the channel of another instance, including channels on tilvids, regardless of federation policy of the remote side.

        As of 3.4, with the “Subscribe as an instance to a channel or an account” feature addition/change, it sounds like as an instance we can add in/subscribe to accounts or channels directly regardless of the federation policy on the other end.

        So, even though TILVids has some interesting, though imho tenuous, reasons behind not federating (as per my tiny discussion with them this week https://mycrowd.ca/notice/AB9ipJe5GLEHbQmv9k ), those reasons seem to pretty much be blown out the window as we can all subscribe to channels there and apparently now accounts as well (at least instance-wide, will have to test from the user level).

        Kind of interesting and odd at the same time, don’t you think?

  • @[email protected]
    0•3 years ago

    Do you count Lemmy as part of fediverse? it’s not federating (yet?) with Mastodon, Pleroma, whatever

    • @[email protected]
      2•3 years ago

      According to the Fediverse definition it is. The definition is: ‘… able to communicate over the boundaries of the instances because the software running on the servers supports one or more communication protocols which follow an open standard’. These open standards are: ActivityPub, Diaspora Network, OStatus and Zot.

        • @[email protected]
          1•3 years ago

          Fediverse is just any software that federates, not necessarily with ActiviyPub. Using “Fediverse” to mean ActivityPub only is a misuse of the term.