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christa

@haikushack it does make it a bit confusing for newcomers, though! definitely a different paradigm than other services

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@christa Honestly, My mind is blown right now. I just had no idea how much I have been missing by just focusing on FB and Twitter. I hate Instagram and TikTok with a passion. So now, I have a place to rediscover real social media.

christa

@haikushack sweet! there are also federated alternatives to many of those - pleroma is Instagram, bookwyrm is Goodreads, there’s been talk of building a federated event service, etc. lots of cool stuff built on the activitypub protocol, which links it all together

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@christa I don't think I will be able to sleep from the excitement you brought to my life tonight. (I'm serious).

Forgive my newbie question, but where do I find all the alternatives you mentioned?

mikefordays

@christa
Check out pixelfed as a good alternative to Instagram :)
@haikushack

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@mikefordays I have heard of this one. I'm going to try it.

Arjen P. de Vries

@christa @haikushack minor correction, Pixelfed is the insta replacement :-) Pleroma is a different microblog platform that interoperates very well with Mastodon.

Letting these sometimes quite different services talk to each other is the power of ActivityPub.

I find it really impressive how this really works in practice, thanks to ppl like @Gargron getting it implemented and working well in real systems.

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