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A lot of the accounts you follow and interact with on here are not Mastodon accounts!
For example, @theatticdwellers is a PeerTube account, @Iancylkowski is a Pixelfed account, @rstv is an OwnCast account.
There are dozens of different server types on here, not just Mastodon servers. When you talk about this place, it's not enough to call it "Mastodon", because it's more than just that.
That's why people call this place "The Fediverse", because that name covers all server types. :fediverse:
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@Saintajax33 @theatticdwellers @Iancylkowski @rstv
You can follow Write Freely accounts, and when a new post is added it will appear in your Home timeline. For example @writefreely is the Write Freely project's own blog and is a Write Freely account.
A more flexible and powerful option is to use a WordPress blog. There is an official plugin made by WordPress that allows independently hosted WordPress blogs to be followed from the Fediverse:
https://fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-your-blog-into-a-fediverse-server/
Ajax @TFS2023
@feditips @theatticdwellers @Iancylkowski @rstv so how does it work for something like publishing stories? If you used a fedi like https://writefreely.org
Could people from mastodon fallow you and get updates when you post?
Lyssa Chiavari
@feditips Is there a way you can tell? The only clue I've had so far is if a post is waaaay longer than the average toot.
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It's designed to be seamless so that you don't notice if posts are from other server types, but there is a way of checking!
If you go to a post's original page, it will open it on the account's own server's website. The server's type will be obvious from the website's layout, logos etc.
Here's how to open original pages:
https://fedi.tips/what-are-original-pages-in-mastodon/
You can try this on the accounts I linked to in the first post of this thread, they will all open on non-Mastodon server websites.
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You can use PeerTube through apps like FediLab or TubeLab for Android which are on Google Play.
Pixelfed has @vernissage for iPhone/iPad and PixelDroid for Android (though PixelDroid isn't on Google Play). It also has official apps in public testing. More info at https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps
Adrian Morales
@feditips @theatticdwellers @Iancylkowski @rstv Sadly, neither PeerTube nor Pixelfed has an official mobile app that you can find on your phone's store.
runarcn
I'd like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Mastodon, is in fact, the Fediverse/Mastodon, or as I've recently taken to calling it, the Fediverse plus Mastodon. Mastodon is not a social network unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning federated system made useful by the ActivityPub protocol, web utilities, and vital social network components comprising a full fediverse.
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@feditips @theatticdwellers @Iancylkowski @rstv I'm a nerd that likes to try things so I have a #Mastodon, #Calckey, #Pixelfed, #Peertube, #Akkoma, and #Pleroma accounts. What else do I need? #OwnCast?
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Both, as a federation is something that is federated.
"Federated Universe" is often cited as the long form.
Barbara Pittman ☕️💬
@feditips @theatticdwellers @Iancylkowski @rstv
Fed as in federation or federated?
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Do you mean you can see the photos but clicking on them doesn't work?
Or that you can't see any posts from Mastodon?
Cassandra
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I don't know who needs to know this, but I can't open most of the pictures on lancylkowski. I can see most (not all) on the feed. I am using vanilla Mastodon.
Travis Newton :node:
@Cassandra @feditips This might be a bug in Mastodon. I checked a bunch of mobile apps and the web interface and I see that he has 0 posts (obviously not true).
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Yes, Friendica also shows the poster's original server type with a little logo.
Paweł Świątkowski
@feditips some clients show that information on the profile page, so it's one click away (attached screenshot from Fedilab). Also akkoma's (and I believe calckey's) default web frontends display an icon of the software next to every toot.
@lyssachiavari
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@feditips useful, and also no, there's no way I'm following video or audio feeds here, as those are my least favorite Mastodon (or Web) content. 😆 but good to know it's seamless!
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They're there if people want to follow :)
By the way, just to clarify my original post, it's not just audio and video, there are text-centric platforms like Friendica and Calckey on the Fedi too. Friendica was on the Fediverse before Mastodon.
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@zalintyre @theatticdwellers @Iancylkowski @rstv
No, you can't run a server of one type as another type.
But people on different types of servers can follow each other and interact with each other seamlessly. See my latest post:
Franz
@feditips @theatticdwellers @Iancylkowski @rstv so, from a server's perspective, I could setup a Mastodon server and use it as a Pixelfed instance? What would be the key differences here?
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