I'm aware of kbin, mastodon, and lemmy. Are there any other federated applications out there?

No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 385 points – 1 years ago

Applications, social media interfaces, instances, I'm not sure what the correct word is 😅.

Pretty much title!

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My favorite is PixelFed. I'm an artist, so Instagram was important for me, but for a few years now it's absolutely terrible (no reach at all with their special algorithms). PixelFed fixes all that, it replicates the feeling of IG as it was 8-10 years ago: chronological feed, tag-based, no extraneous features. I'm really enjoying it, as I can finally grow again my followship as an artist: https://pixelfed.org/

Bonus points for lack of normies posting crappy reels

How can I find you there ? I joined not long ago and I lack interesting people to follow. Also, curious to see your work :)

Thank you!!! Here is my art account: https://pixelfed.social/EugeniaLoli

Thanks, found you. Nice work you're doing. I'm new so I don't have much to feature, but I hope you'll like my photos :)

Is there interoperability between pixel fed and lemmy at all? I'm so sick of Instagram, this piques my interest

There is interoperability between PixelFed and Mastodon for sure. I often get a lot of likes from there, rather than PixelFed itself.

Any great FOSS apps for that one yet?:)

https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps

Hm, is there a play store link? I'm not sure how to put an app on my phone that's not from the playstore

Don't know about Pixelfed specifically (dont have it installed) but you can get FDroid from the play store and then use it to install other packages not approved by googul

but you can get FDroid from the play store and then use it to install other packages not approved by googul

Where do you live where F-Droid is in the Play Store? In the US, you have to download the apk from the F-Droid website.

France... , didn't know that. Probably antitrust laws in effect

Not yet, because it hasn't officially released yet. Will happen soon(ish) though I think. Some mastodon clients work with pixelfed as well, although not perfectly.

the official app works great on Android

It comes with a PWA that works well enough.

Do you have any suggestions as to how to find people on there? I have it installed and am trying it out, but I'm running into a lot of the same problems I was having on Mastodon; it seems difficult to discover engaging content.

You can follow me if you like book illustration art: https://pixelfed.social/EugeniaLoli Another way, is to search for tags. For example, if you like fishing, you search for that tag, and then you find ppl that post interesting fishing stuff.

So much good photos on there no generic popular spam crap like you get on Instagram