fediverse services - links
I am curious about the fediverse outside of lemmy. Is there any good documentation or recommended services? I've seen talk of mastadon, matrix, and kbin but I don't understand how use them with my current Lemmy account.
I feel like when I see info about them it's kind of convoluted and there's a lot of generalized fedi structure ideology talk and not enough about how to start using the fediverse.
Any leads would be appreciated!
Thanks.
Some very good answers in this post: I'm aware of kbin, mastodon, and lemmy. Are there any other federated applications out there? : nostupidquestions, some random copy&paste:
From What other kinds of servers are on the Fediverse? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse:
Owncast, peertube, and pixelfed seem like something I want to get into!
Thanks.
It's not guaranteed that every federated app integrates with every other federated app in a particularly useful way. You kind of need to take it on an app by app basis:
#hashtags
and with an@thecommunity@instance
mention, that's probably from a mastodon user. I'm not sure how a lemmy user can initiate contact with a mastodon user, but a mastodon user can at-mention a lemmy community as if it were a mastodon user and doing that will create a lemmy post. Comments on the lemmy post look like replies to the mastodon toot.Other fediverse projects will interact in varying specific ways, and you need to figure each pair out individually.
From Lemmy you can't use Mastodon (though you can the other way around - from Mastodon to Lemmy, but it's suboptimal). Matrix follows similar ideas as Fediverse, but isn't part of it, there's no way of interacting with it. Kbin is similar to Lemmy and you can actually interact with it - visit for example !AskKbin@kbin.social and interact with the community. You won't notice any difference, but you're interacting with Kbin community (on Kbin you'll find the community on https://kbin.social/m/AskKbin).
Try fedi.tips
I made a list of Fediverse alternatives that may be helpful.
Some basic tips on using the ActivityPub services (Matrix is its own beast and stands slightly apart from them but you can add your Matrix ID to the settings on Lemmy and it gives you a button for secure messaging)
Any other questions?