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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    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.

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      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.

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

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    #Bookwyrm is a book review site like Goodreads

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

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    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 :)

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.

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

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