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.
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.
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.
#Bookwyrm is a book review site like Goodreads
#WriteFreely is a blogging service, and Medium is actually working on Fediverse integration.
Its still early. It needs time to mature.
Here is an exhaustive list of fedi projects. Enjoy!
Thanks a lot!
@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
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.