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?
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.
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.
there is an initiative for federated git “forges” called ForgeFed. I’m on mobile but will find some links when I’m on desktop
Oh, I just found it! This is cool and I’m glad it exists ♥
Also Gitea is working on federation support using ActivityPub.
#Bookwyrm is a book review site like Goodreads
#WriteFreely is a blogging service, and Medium is actually working on Fediverse integration.
Here is an exhaustive list of fedi projects. Enjoy!
Thanks a lot!
Its still early. It needs time to mature.
@gredo There is a clone of #Facebook (actually 2 or 3: #Friendica, which uses AP, #Diaspora, using it’s own protocol and #Hubzilla, using both AP and it’s own, #Zot protocol).
Then there’s #Pixelfed, which is an alternative to #Instagram
Edit: what I really find missing is an alternative to #IMDb
I’m curious, what would a federated IMDB add to the experience for you?
yeah, i guess i can see that. personally i never really grokked goodreads but honestly I feel that way about most social media platforms so its definitely a me issue
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sadly my provider won’t let that happen. Except I pay for it. Or are you not talking about the public IP?
No I am. You have to pay for a static ip?
Yeah, in Germany if you don’t have Internet over cable you get a flexible IP. Not sure how it is with ftth which we will get in a few weeks.
Sadly my provider won’t let that happen. Except I pay for it. Or are you not talking about the public IP?
