Not too familiar with the fediverse or anything, kinda got violently plunged here cause the internet is setting itself on fire, so please be kind lol, I’m a “normie” here.
As the title says: is there any good usable alternatives to the mentioned platforms? If possible something close or on par with their features? There doesn’t seem to be anything of the sort as far as I know, not counting mastodon or pixelfed as those aren’t in the same field to the mentioned platforms. Anything’s appreciated, thx.
I’m not actually sure honestly. I’d like a Pinterest alternative too.
Pixelfed or Friendica for art pages might be the closest thing to deviantart (as best I’m aware at least). Pixelfed is modeled after instagram, friendica is modeled after facebook.
The network of microblogging sites like Mastodon or miskey (twitter-like) is the biggest fediverse platform, after that is probably reddit like platforms (lemmy, kbin, piefed) and pixelfed.
Most other platforms like peertube (YouTube alternative), loops, friendica, and probably a much of others, are still on the smaller side and still feel much different from their corporate counterparts due to the size difference. They haven’t really hit a “critical mass” yet in my opinion. They’re still cool and worth trying out if you’re interested though :)
The fediverse is still growing, but I’m not sure there are direct couterparts for those specific user experiences yet.
Regardless, welcome! I’m glad you’re here :)
This is the second time in a week I heard someone say that there is no federated Pinterest alternative.
As someone who hasn’t ever really used Pinterest: What would be the features you would be looking for? And what is ist that would define Pinterest for you?
I use it to save images as reference that still links back to the original content. That way I can make boards of reference or inspiration that contains links to the source for more detail or ideas, without having to save an image and then save a link and then keep them together somehow.
And if you just bookmark stuff you can’t pull it all up and look at it together as like a reference board.
The federated aspect would probably just be to enable decentralization while still allowing as many people as possible to contribute to the total image pool and organize them, which would teach the platform what images how to organize them so other people can find them.
I think kbin is dead. Mbin took it’s place
I didn’t know that, thank you :)
Tumblr will probably join fediverse soon, if the announcement is correct. A lot of people are asking about Pinterest alternative in fediverse, but I never saw one. Btw, for anyone looking at a Flickr alternative, I feel like they should look into https://vernissage.photos/ .
what announcement?
All of tumblr is being moved to Wordpress software, and Automatic confirmed last month that it will also include federating posts.
I haven’t found the announcement itself, but replies by Tumblr mentioning it.
I’m not a Tumblr fan, but I was told that Wafrn can be a good fediverse replacement for it
I’ve heard people mention Wafrn as a Tumblr alternative, but haven’t checked it out myself.
Check this out https://app.wafrn.net/dashboard/exploreLocal
There’s pinetta that’s inspired by pinterest, but the repo hasn’t been updated in a couple years.
Flipboard
I’m still confused how they are going to use the AP protocol on top if whatever they’re doing right now. I don’t follow them closely but I’m cautiously excited on what they’ll do tbf
I use are.na as a Pinterest alternative. It’s not exactly the same - the vibe is a lot artier over there - but I still use it as a visual pin board.
