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   Sean Tilley (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 07-Nov-2022 15:21:06 JST Sean Tilley

   This one is for all the new people on #Mastodon: did you know that the #fediverse has more than just a microblogging replacement? And that they can all interoperate with your Mastodon account?

   Check them out!

   • Facebook replacement: Friendica
   • Instagram replacement: Pixelfed
   • YouTube replacement: PeerTube
   • Spotify replacement: Funkwhale
   • MeetUp replacement: Mobilizon
   • Reddit replacement: Lemmy
   • Podcasting replacement: Castopod
   • GoodReads replacement: BookWyrm
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     Sean Tilley (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 00:44:18 JST Sean Tilley

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     • The Matrix.org Foundation
     • 0xBrewing.eth ?

     It’s not perfect on the moderation side, but @matrix offers a really great client for web, desktop, and mobile called Element

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     0xBrewing.eth ? (0xbrewing@mastodon.beer)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 00:44:25 JST 0xBrewing.eth ?

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     @sean what about Discord alternative?.

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     Sean Tilley (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 01:12:08 JST Sean Tilley

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     • The Matrix.org Foundation
     • Jutta Eckstein

     It’s not perfect on the moderation side, but @matrix offers a really great client for web, desktop, and mobile called Element

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     Jutta Eckstein (juttaeckstein@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 01:12:09 JST Jutta Eckstein

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     @sean
     Is there also a recommended slack replacement?

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 01:12:27 JST silverwizard

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     • mcv
     • Dave Waghorn
     @sean @mcv @waggers5 The fediverse is older than ActivityPub
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     mcv (mcv@nerdica.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 01:12:34 JST mcv

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     • Dave Waghorn
     @waggers5 @sean Diaspora is not part of the fediverse. It doesn't use ActivityPub (the fediverse protocol) but has its own protocol. Friendica and Hubzilla can work with both.
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     Dave Waghorn (waggers5@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 01:12:40 JST Dave Waghorn

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     @sean I joined Diaspora* a few years ago and I'm a little surprised to not see it on the list. Is that seen as a rival to these Fediverse apps?

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     Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 01:13:01 JST Strypey

     • fu
     • Paul Sutton

     @fu
     > I never "got" Twitter, similarly ... GNU Social

     Ae, same here. I initially just used GNU Social and its crosspost-to-Titter as a way of spamming out links to my blog posts. But of course nobody could see my posts unless they could find me and follow my account. It took a while to click that they were unlikely to do that if I didn't follow and interact with other people on the platform. Which turned out to be way more fun than being a well-meaning spammer ;)

     @sean @zleap

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     Paul Sutton (zleap@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 01:13:09 JST Paul Sutton

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     • Strypey

     @strypey @sean

     I agree here, we need to be careful with wording.

     Rather than saying Friendica is a facebook replacement, we should perhaps think about the services within facebook it does or can replace and promote that.

     Of course a lot of people would leave facebook, only they are unable to as they are in touch with people on there who also won't leave due to specific groups or friends.

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     Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 01:13:12 JST Strypey

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     Great to see you active in the 'verse again and thanks for sharing this list with newbies, but...

     @sean
     > Facebook replacement: Friendica

     ... it's really not fair to Friendica to keep making this comparison. Neither the feature set nor the UI of Friendica are anything like modern FB, so calling it a FB replacement just sets people up for disappointment and poor first impressions. IMHO We don't yet have a complete, federated replaced for FB and it's better to just be honest about that.

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     Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 01:16:25 JST Strypey

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     @sean
     > if you cut out the chat, games, zillions of client apps, marketplace, moments, and their video offerings

     In other words, ignore the vast majority of the features people use FB for, then the comparison holds. This is kind of my point ;)

     Friendica definitely offers things that Mastodon and other micro-posting platforms don't and it's well worth promoting. I just think if we're promoting fedi tools as replacements for datafarms, there must be a more accurate comparison for Friendica.

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     Sean Tilley (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 01:16:26 JST Sean Tilley

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     • Strypey

     I guess that’s fair. I just tend to see Friendica’s current resign as very reminiscent of what was good about Facebook’s UI prior to the Big Bad Redesign where it now looks like a PlaySkool interface.

     I still think Friendica is a totally viable replacement, if you cut out the chat, games, zillions of client apps, marketplace, moments, and their video offerings.

     Yeah, I guess they are pretty different nowadays.

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     (((Baslow))) (baslow@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 14:33:16 JST (((Baslow)))

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     @sean
     You might want to consider adding
     https://writefreely.org/
     to your list

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     (((Baslow))) (baslow@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 14:33:16 JST (((Baslow)))

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     @sean

     ...and I see you did. I blame the current lag time on mastodon.social for having missed it before posting.