I just read up on it and it seems good, at least in theory. How does it compare to Lemmy, would you say?

  • maegul (he/they)
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    21 year ago

    @[email protected] … continuing the other interesting fedi platforms thread.

    plus one for firefish (and related platforms, namely misskey and iceshrimp (?, a recent fork of firefish)) … basically the answer to what if microblogging were richer, more interesting, more featurefull, more fun, nicer looking, not so much *micro-*blogging and not at all concerned with being a twitter clone.

    Akkoma (and its predecessor/older fork pleroma) are maybe worth checking out, though they’re more popular amongst self-hosters and for good technical reasons it seems.

    Friendica is the fedi alternative to facebook. I generally don’t hear good things about it, but it’s still actively developed and seems to have an active and dedicated (albeit small) user base. Hubzilla/Streams (developed by the same founding dev of friendica) are in a similar position AFAICT.

    In case you didn’t know … kbin is a sort of alternative to lemmy, where it has very very similar community functionality but with some features that integrate more with the microblogging platforms.

    Otherwise, you’ve got Pixelfed, an instagram-like alternative, popular and actively developed, and the sort of blogging tools/alternatives I don’t too know much about: writefreely, micro.blog, the fediverse wordpress plugin, and microblog.pub (niche self-hosting platform).

    The Fedidb Software page is probably a good guide to what’s out there and what people are using.

    • spitzOP
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      31 year ago

      Cheers. I’ve tried kbin and it made no sense to me at all. Just signed up to firefish so I’ll see how it goes.

      • maegul (he/they)
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        21 year ago

        I’ve tried kbin and it made no sense to me at all.

        Yea … I like what they’re trying to do, but at the moment, the complexity / value ratio is problematically low I’d guess for most people. It’s a very young platform however and seems to have done well at maintaining performance with user growth so worth keeping an eye on.