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Re: Pixelfed – An alternative to centralized image sharing platforms

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Post by dwighttk »

evolve2k wrote: post #27
wicket wrote: post #23

> Registrations are closed. I think the lack of a common name/URL is the biggest problem that is preventing federated open source social networks from gaining mass popularity. I remember when identi.ca came out as an alternative to Twitter. It seemed like it was starting to gain some traction, then they switched to pump.io and closed registrations. I haven't heard of anyone using either since. Look at Diaspora, that…

> Which pod do I choose? That is actually a great UX question. For federated services how do you think we best solve this? I mean everyone wants to just not pick one. But different loss suits people better in terms of location/interests/something else. UX folks, what patterns would you suggest to help solve this?

with email it doesn't matter what domain name you pick... why does it have to matter for other things?

Re: Pixelfed – An alternative to centralized image sharing platforms

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Post by phoe-krk »

thekyle wrote: post #46
phoe-krk wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1) Yes, these speak the common ActivityPub protocol. 2) It's purposeful specialization. PeerTube is a video hosting service, Funkwhale is a music hosting service, GetTogether is an event hosting service. No idea what services provide online document services - they likely aren't ActivityPub-compatible. 3) Ask the administrator of your instance. The Fediverse, of which PixelFed is part, is composed of a mesh of networ…

> No idea what services provide online document services - they likely aren't ActivityPub-compatible. Nextcloud is ActivityPub compatible and might suit that use case.

Does NextCloud have some document editors built-in?

Re: Pixelfed – An alternative to centralized image sharing platforms

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Post by beachwood23 »

wicket wrote: post #41
derefr wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which email provider do I choose? Email is a mature example of a federated system, and so if there is an answer to the general question, I'd expect we'll have figured it out in the context of email. So... what's the "general strategy for picking an email provider?"

Email is a different kettle of fish. It got in there first and only really competed with snail mail. Other alternatives were arguably more complicated. There was no easier alternative to fall back on. If you wanted to communicate on the internet, you had to use email, and by the time there were alternatives, it had a large enough user-base which meant that it was never simply going to be displaced.

I could be wrong here, but I believe that for most ordinary people, AOL messaging and even CompuServe boards were in common use before Email. The email "standard" had to displace those.

Re: Pixelfed – An alternative to centralized image sharing platforms

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Post by uptown »

grumpy-cowboy wrote: post #7

I'm in the process to move out mass-surveillance social sites like FB, Twitter, Google, ... I'm about to install my own Matrix and ActivityPub nodes (Mastodon, Pleroma, PeerTube, ...) on a cheap VPS. I also have my own email domain hosted at Fastmail.com (I don't want to manage an email server). This way I'll manage MY own data. I'll share it with who I want. And it's a fun project. :)

Check out Koken for self-hosting photo albums. It's pretty great:

http://koken.me/

Re: Pixelfed – An alternative to centralized image sharing platforms

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Post by veb »

cedricbonhomme wrote: post #17

What I really like is that thanks to ActivityPub it is possible to boost a Pixelfed post in Mastodon. Basically in the fediverse...

I constantly boost my PixelFed posts in Masotdon :) It's such an awesome way of doing it. My latest toots are in fact, from PixelFed: https://mastodon.social/@veb

Re: Pixelfed – An alternative to centralized image sharing platforms

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Post by veb »

soared wrote: post #24

Link should be changed to the homepage instead of the current weird page that has no info https://pixelfed.social/

Yep, we definitely have to update that page ASAP. Maybe next time it hits HN we'll be ready. If anyone's interested you can see from my Mastodon what I've boosted from PixelFed: https://mastodon.social/@veb

Re: Pixelfed – An alternative to centralized image sharing platforms

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Post by codetrotter »

Deimorz wrote: post #56
codetrotter wrote: post #39

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I don’t think so, no. They probably would have said so if it was. I wonder if they are open to patches that would make it federated.

I've got a note about this in the FAQ ( https://docs.tildes.net/faq#why-isnt-tildes-decentralizeddis... ): > Why isn't Tildes decentralized/distributed/federated? > Decentralized communities are interesting and have a lot of potential, but that model also introduces its own problems and difficulties. Tildes is already attempting to do quite a few things differently to improve the quality of online communities, and I'…

Thanks for responding about that here, did not expect that :)

Re: Pixelfed – An alternative to centralized image sharing platforms

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Post by AJRF »

Thoughts on federated services;

Just silly ramblings that hopefully open up a discussion because god knows I don't have the answers, but I do have ideas.

1. How do I get my friends to use them - Solution? Maybe we now live in a world where privacy being part of the public discourse would enable something wonderful like a rich person who cares about this to spend for an ad campaign altruistically (I'm thinking in the vein of Brian Acton giving money to Signal foundation). That would be an effective seed to start a social network. Really play on the failures of modern social; Facebook (privacy), Twitter (sloppy moderation & bots) Google+ (...)

2. For the most part, no one cares it's federated. The upside of federation is "unstoppable" apps (to steal from Ethereum). Okay fine it's federated, just make the UX of finding and jumping into those fediverse's easy. Pinterest model of discovery would lend itself to fediverse discovery, i.e I type a search term - show me related fediverse.

3. Make it known to the people it matters to, in simple terms about how you don't track them. This is really really important. People care about being tracked, but unless you make it super simple and informative that what you do is different, how can I see that using something that is open source, federated and made by people who care about privacy is actually going to reduce tracking? Startpage and Mozilla do good work here about describing the state of the union, and how what they do is different.

Re: Pixelfed – An alternative to centralized image sharing platforms

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Post by simcop2387 »

phoe-krk wrote: post #63
thekyle wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> No idea what services provide online document services - they likely aren't ActivityPub-compatible. Nextcloud is ActivityPub compatible and might suit that use case.

Does NextCloud have some document editors built-in?

Yes, https://nextcloud.com/collaboraonline/
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