I had no idea of the size and variety of the Fediverse! It has me feeling a bit overwhelmed. I’m enjoying BookWyrm very much; it’s the GoodReads/LibraryThing replacement I’ve been looking for for years.
I love the simplicity of Paper.wf for blogging. It’s truly elegant; I just click the link and start typing. But as far as I can tell there’s no way for others to find my blog or for me to find other blogs on the site. There’s no browse or follow feature. Nor can anyone comment on my posts! Those seem to me to be HUGE omissions.
Have you used any Fediverse blogging options? What are they like? And what other Fediverse services would you recommend? Other than Mastodon, I’ve already tried that (it didn’t excite me).
Interesting to see that tumblr is adding support for ActivityPub. I wonder if any other legacy platforms will undertake to federate.
Meta is working on an Instagram side project that will act like twitter and will use activitypub. I highly suspect though tumblr and meta taking an interest in the fediverse might ultimately add more people to interact with at the cost of being lousy neighbors
There is also Bluesky Social, an invite-only beta that uses a different protocol similar to ActivityPub (which lemmy uses). It’s a project that originally merged out of Twitter but is an independent project now, with Jack Dorsey as a board member.
Bluesky itself is suppose to be a microblogging platform similar to Twitter, but the protocol it runs on (Activity Transfer Protocol) is meant to work the same way as ActivityPub, to generate diverse, federated social networks.
I’ve not used Bluesky, but I’d be interested to hear experiences from anyone who has. I’m a bit leery about Dorsey being involved simply because he’s one of the Big Corpo Boys, but his running of Twitter was fairly reasonable compared to the current regime.
Knowing what a jerk Jack Dorsey is though, I’m steering clear.
Is he like another spez?
I do hope that Tumblr gets on ActivityPub soon because I do love the idea of interacting with Tumblr posts here on beehaw or on Mastodon, or whatever other thing uses the protocol.