Pages Tagged “Fediverse”
Reviews
- Elk (Mastodon App) ★★★★☆ Alternate web front-end for Mastodon and compatible servers. Slightly more user-friendly, if a bit buggy, especially on non-Mastodon servers like GoToSocial.
- Enafore ★★★★☆ Minimalist web front-end for Mastodon and compatible servers. Not as capable as Elk, but more stable.
- Fedilab ★★★★☆ A full-featured app for connecting to Mastodon and other Fediverse servers. Includes specific capabilities for Akkoma, Pixelfed, PeerTube and more, without getting too cluttered.
- Fread ★★★★☆ Another Bluesky/Mastodon/RSS Combo app like OpenVibe, a bit less polished but considerably more useful. Handles multiple accounts per type, plus custom feeds.
- GoToSocial ★★★★☆ A lightweight Fediverse server, with a clean web interface for viewing public posts. Compatible with Mastodon apps and interacts with other ActivityPub platforms.
- Husky (Social Media App) ★★★☆☆ A fork based on an older version of Tusky, with added support for Pleroma and Akkoma extensions.
- Mastodon (Mobile App) ★★★☆☆ Good for someone new to Mastodon, but lacks advanced features found in other apps like Tusky.
- Mastodon – Simplified Federation ★★★★★ A Firefox add-on that automatically opens remote Mastodon users or posts in your home server when you interact with them.
- Moshidon (Mastodon app) ★★★★☆ A modified version of the Mastodon app for Android that adds a bit more functionality. Helpful if you use lists or bookmarks a lot, or your instance supports formatted posting.
- OpenVibe ★★★☆☆ A cool idea, and it looks great, but the combined feed is too much of a firehose unless you’re only following a small number of people on each account.
- Pachli (Mastodon App) ★★★★☆ A Mastodon app forked from (and still similar to) Tusky. Capable without being cluttered. Faster, smaller updates, some minor differences, and some cool anti-harassment features I’d like to see adopted more widely.
- Phanpy (Mastodon App) ★★★★★ An app for Mastodon (and other Fediverse sites) that cuts through the clutter. Runs anywhere in a web browser, or can be installed to your device’s home page as a PWA.
- PixelDroid ★★★★★ Optimized for photo sharing and viewing, works smoothly and integrates well with the system. FOSS, won’t vacuum up your personal data.
- Postmarks ★★★★☆ A self-hosted public bookmarks/linkblogging server (think Delicious or Pinboard) that can interact with Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse.
- Snac ★★★★☆ Extremely bare-bones social networking server that runs on low-resource machines, works on the web without cookies or JavaScript, and still interacts through ActivityPub with Mastodon, GoToSocial and other Fediverse software.
- Subway Tooter ★★★☆☆ Extremely customizable, capable, cluttered and complex. Also extremely frustrating to use, especially on a phone. Better on a tablet where there’s room for more columns at a time.
- Tusky for Mastodon ★★★★★ I’ve checked out some alternatives after several years using Tusky, and it’s still my preferred Mastodon/Fediverse app. It really runs smoothly, even with multiple accounts.
- Vivaldi (Web Browser) ★★★★★ Spiritual successor to the original Opera browser, this ultra-customizable web browser can open into a full suite for email, calendar, feeds and more – but only if you want it to.
- Whalebird (Mastodon client) A simple desktop app for Mastodon and (most) compatible Fediverse servers. Fast, runs on multiple platforms.
- WordPress Plugins (and ClassicPress too!) Some WordPress and ClassicPress plugins I’ve used and which ones I recommend.
Tech Tips
- Finding Fediverse Feeds How to find the RSS/Atom feeds for Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Misskey, and other Fediverse platforms.
- How to Post to Mastodon From Anything Using IFTTT You can use IFTTT’s webhooks target to hook up anything to autopost to a Mastodon account.
- Share to the Fediverse with ShareOpenly A share button that connects to Mastodon, Bluesky, Micro.blog, Threads and more. Here’s how I’ve hooked it up to Eleventy.
- The State of Local-Only Fediverse Posts (WIP) Which Fediverse servers can handle local-only posts, and which apps can publish them? Here’s what I’ve found so far.
- WordPress + ActivityPub in a Subdirectory This rewrite rule lets other Fediverse sites find your blog through the ActivityPub plugin, without breaking Let’s Encrypt renewals.
- Wrapping Your Head Around Mastodon I’ve been on Mastodon for several years now, and it’s completely replaced Twitter for me. It is a shift in perspective on how social media works, so here are a few tips to help wrap your head around it.
Blog Posts
- Fediverse: Beta to Production
The Twitter-to-Mastodon migration is like going from beta testing the Fediverse to production. Just like a public beta always turns up issues that were missed during development, when going to production you suddenly have a *huge* pool of new users who are going to use the system in ways you didn’t anticipate and haven’t already […]
- May I Have Your Attention Please. All of it. FOREVER.
One thing I like about the Fediverse is that it doesn’t constantly scream for your attention to keep you online as long as possible.
- Taking the Safety Off
Purism’s explanations for removing various safety features from Librem One’s social network sound like someone explaining why they removed the mirrors, brakes, horns, seat belts, airbags and signals from the cars they’re reselling, because they know those cars are only ever going to be driven on a track where they’ll never have to change lanes […]
- Shouting Into the Less Exploitative Void
Sometimes you choose which social app to open based on who you want to talk to who you want to hear what you want to talk about Sometimes youâre just shouting into the void. At those times, I figure Iâll choose the void that feels less exploitative. Thatâs part of why I still have a […]
- Weighing alternatives to Facebookified Instagram
Like many people, I’ve moved away from Facebook over the last couple of years. I haven’t deleted my account, but I only visit once or twice a month, and it’s been a long time since I’ve posted there. And like many people in that survey, I’ve come to prefer Instagram to Facebook. Friends and family […]
- Sort of Blogging on the Fediverse
Over at Key Smash!, I’ve been helping beta-test the Pterotype plugin to hook up a self-hosted WordPress to the Fediverse. It gives WordPress an ActivityPub presence, so new posts and comments can be seen in Mastodon, Pleroma, and other ActivityPub-powered networks, and replies from those networks can come back as comments. But Key Smash! is […]
- Possibly Out-There Federation Idea
Now that Pixelfed federation and Pterotype are taking shape, I can hook up my photos and blogging directly into Mastodon and the Fediverse, but you know what would be even cooler? Connecting them to each other. A lot of my blog ideas grow out of photos or statuses that I’ve posted previously, as I find […]
- LOLSpam Returns as a Super-Simple Mastodon Bot
Back when I was comparing social media archives, I considered resurrecting my old LOLspam project as a Mastodon bot. I never quite got around to it, partly because I was able to do most of what I wanted to automate using IFTTT, so I stopped investigating that last 5%. Last night, I threw together a […]
- Mixed Feelings: Facebook Has Shut Down (Some) Auto-Posting
I have mixed feelings on Facebook closing down automated posts to personal* profiles. It might cut down on spam, and it will lead to better descriptions on link posts, but it also locks you further into their silo. You can still write elsewhere and link back to it on Facebook, but you can’t use WordPress […]
- Categorizing Social Networks
You can broadly categorize social networks by four factors: How replies are handled, whether you follow people or topics, is it broadcast by default, and is it one service or many?