Both are federated right? Getting a bit confused - are they interchangeable? Can I view lemmy posts/communities in Mastodon? Similar to how I can view lemmy.ml content with a lemmy.world account?

  • @IonAddis
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    321 year ago

    Glomming onto your comment here…

    …I discovered that something called Peertube also exists, using the same federation idea/protocol. And it’s to YouTube as Lemmy is to Reddit.

    (Man, I never thought those school word problems would ever be relevant…)

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      But you need to host the videos on your instance and foot the bandwith bill, which will prevent it from taking off like Youtube. Too expensive for anyone outside of gigantic monopolistic companies.

      It relies on peer-to-peer, not hosting.

      BTW: there is also a Facebook equivalent (Friendica, GNU Social, Dispora and Hubzilla), a Instagram equivalent (Pixelfed) and a Instant Messenger (Matrix)

      • @[email protected]
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        101 year ago

        While Matrix is federated, it uses its own protocol,.not ActivityPub like the others you mentioned.

      • sab
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        Worth noting that while Matrix is decentralized, it’s not part of the Fediverse!

        The Fediverse/Activitypub protocol cannot (currently) be end-to-end encrypted, so it’s not so great for secure direct messaging. Matrix is completely separate software for a different use case, but it follows similar guiding principles of open source and decentralization. :)

        (Oh, and for book lovers, check out BookWyrm; if you used to love Grooveshark back in the day, give Funkwhale a spin!)

      • Hyperreality
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        31 year ago

        They’re also working on properly federating wordpress. That’s probably a bigger one.

    • Haru
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      91 year ago

      There’s also PixelFed for the federated version of Instagram.

    • Xiphorang
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      51 year ago

      There’s more than that too. Like Pixelfed for images and Funkwhale for music streaming.

      Check out this Feditips thread for a bunch of stuff.

      • @Today
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        31 year ago

        Saving this because i want to come back to check out those other things/places/what do you call those?

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          Person, place, thing? That’s called a Noun

          Jokes aside, I think I’d call them services or platforms