I’ve been on the Facebook and Twitter for a long time. Since (I guess) 3 years or so I have presence on the Fediverse. Mainly mastodon. I like mastodon a lot because it’s a fine replacement of Twitter. I am very close of killing my Facebook account. Twitter I am not sure if but I am spending much time there anymore. Mainly on the privacytools mastodon instance now.
Now looking for a substitute for Instagram. Found something like pixelfed. But I am not fully aware of al fediverse app platforms. What’s more in this world of the fediverse!?
@loweel thank you Loweel. I am on reddit too. I check out lemmy too. I just like the fact all can communicate together. And my info is not sold like on Facebook and Twitter. I don’t feel like I’m the product here. But that could only be in my mind. Fact is: the people I have met so far on mastodon are very nice people. On Twitter there is a lot of hate.
well, if you want to be 100% sure your info aren’t sold, just buy a raspberry with 8GB and run your own at home, like I do (not with raspi, but a similar board).
@loweel I run a intel NuC with alpine/docker here. So I could set up a mastodon Instance , but then I would mis all the chatter on the local timeline because no one is there to fill it. Of course I would have the global timeline.
for one person Mastodon is overkill, I would suggest Pleroma there. Once you federate, and you follow people, they will appear on your timeline. So you don’t miss it. At least, with Pleroma.
I am running pleroma (never Mastodon) and I heard this empty timeline issue a few times now. So I suggest to give a try to pleroma, because I don’t have this issue, at least once I followed and I’m followed by others.
@loweel Thanks Loweel for your hints.
@marc0janssen
fediverse is not based on platform, but on a protocol to federate together. You can write a federated platform for social, for sharing images (pixelfed), to share video (peertube) , audio (funky whale) or like reddit discussions (lemmy), etcetera. Basically is not built on platform, is built on a protocol.
Each instance , like the old BBSs, has its own owner and moderator (unless you run your own at home).