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.

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[–] Crul@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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:

Here's a list of 130: https://the-federation.info/#projects

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From What other kinds of servers are on the Fediverse? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse:

As well as Mastodon, there are lots of other server types on the Fediverse, for example:

BookWyrm – A social reading platform, an alternative to Amazon’s GoodReads

Friendica – A general social network with no character limits, sort of like Facebook used to be on its older interface

Funkwhale – Music and podcast storage and sharing

Kbin – Link aggregation and discussion, sort of like Reddit

Mobilizon – Event organisation, the Fedi’s alternative to Facebook Events

OwnCast – Video livestreaming with a chat window at the side, very much in the style of Twitch

PeerTube – YouTube-style video sharing site which uses P2P technology to allow even small servers to have videos go viral, as the more people view a video the more bandwidth it gets

PixelFed – Photo sharing site, similar in style to Instagram and Tumblr

WordPress – Independently hosted WordPress blogs can be turned into Fediverse servers using a special plugin

WriteFreely – Minimalist blog where focus is on the text, like a calmer version of Medium

…and that’s just some of them! If you’re a techy person, you can see more comprehensive lists of server types at FediDB and delightful fediverse apps.

[–] vd1n@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Owncast, peertube, and pixelfed seem like something I want to get into!

Thanks.

[–] floppy@rabbitea.rs 2 points 1 year ago

Try fedi.tips

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

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).