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I am not aware of one with direct AP integration, but I think Opengist has an RSS feed that you could use with a bot to automate posts on a Mastodon etc. account fairly easily.


GoToSocial allows you to have a customized profile page and use custom emojis and such.


I don’t remember exactly. Maybe a year or so.


The same was true for the official pixelfed app and the source was eventually released. Not great, but I think it is fair not to assume malice in this case.



The Pixelfed developer has been teasing Lemmy compatible groups for some years now. Apparently the code already exists, but for some reason it never gets merged.

At one point last year it looked like it would finally be released soon and I even set up a Pixelfed instance on my server to test it, but then somehow they decided working on Loops and Sup. was more important.

I got so annoyed by this lack of focus on basic functionality in general and a few other things regarding it that I deleted the instance again and do not plan to bother with anything this dev puts out again. Best of luck to them though, but I have better things to do with my time…


ActivityPub is not very well suited for real-time communication, but there are some attempts like Sup.

I think the best is to integrate an existing Fedivserse instance with XMPP. We do that on our slrpnk.net instance where every member automatically has a XMPP account reachable under the same address as on the Fediverse. We also host a Movim client that does chat as well as 1:1 A/V calls (group calls are coming soon).


The $4m would be better invested in the Fediverse. ATproto is designed with a winner takes all philosophy and Bluesky has the headstart and more funds, so this is a wasted effort most likely.


Lemmy can host gifs or videos natively, it is just disabled on most instances due to storage and bandwidth limitations.


Pict-rs the software that Lemmy uses to serve images is originally intended for this and can be run in standalone mode.



No Sharkey/Misskey is more like Mastodon, but with more playful features like emoji reactions and animated text.

Threads is not included, but Mastodon had a lot more Twitter refugees.


The goal is to promote a local market. Not much point to have a marketplace with used items from the other side of the world.

Although manual curation of the connected instances would also work for a specialist marketplace where you can only find specific types of items.

I think both use-cases make more sense than general marketplace with mostly irrelevant entries.


I use both Lemmy and Akkoma, but yes I used to be quite active on Hubzilla when I ran an instance of it.


Ah, good to know, thanks for the correction 👍

I don’t really have a need for most of the features Hubzilla offers, so I think I’ll stick to my Akkoma instance. But I encourage people to check out Hubzilla, as it is a neat project overall.



It’s true that Hubzilla has access permissions for files on your WebDAV folder, and those access permissions sort of federate to other Zot protocol using sites (but not the wider Fediverse), but Nextcloud also has its own inter-Nextcloud federation where you can access files on other Nextcloud instances right inside your Nextcloud.


Well, for various reasons I stopped hosting my own Hubzilla instance some years ago, but back then it absolutely had CalDAV and CardDAV. The problem was mainly that this wasn’t well exposed in the Hubzilla web-interface, other than an event calendar. But with Thunderbird and DAVx5 etc. you could connect to it and manage it just fine. The WebDAV file storage part worked fine in the web-interface as well.

Edit: these parts are not federated though AFAIK (contrary to Nextcloud which does have some kind of file-sharing federation).



I think originally it tried to be a Facebook alternative, but over time it developed into a personal cloud space of sorts. I would agree with the comparison to Nextcloud as of 5 years ago, but these days they pivoted into the enterprise space and isn’t that nice for home users any longer.


Moshidon, fork of Mastodon app with advanced features
Especially nice in combination with Akkoma instances as it supports: - Markdown / MFM - Emoji Reacts - Quote Posts - Bubble Timeline
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Update on Pixelfed groups
Shipping soon (tm) but we heard that before. Still looking forward to it and they explicitly mention Lemmy compatibility. However for the app API they probably should have just made it compatible with Lemmy apps 🤷‍♂️
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Mediated networks and power dynamics in ATproto
Interesting thread that summarizes it well.
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Pixelfed is introducing Curated Onboarding: A Personal Touch to Community Building
This sounds like something Lemmy would also really benefit from.
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Seppo: Personal Social Web
>#Seppo empowers you to publish short texts (and images yet to come) and to network in the Social Web. By renting commodity web space and dropping a single file. Without being subject to terms and conditions. Without having to fret about small print or tech lore. And without the need for an IT-consultant. But rather having a life.
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Pixelfed now also supports WebP2P videos like Peertube
Very nice improvement and I hope more fediverse software starts supporting this. tl;dr popular videos are also uploaded by the viewers, thus lowering the server load, similar to Bittorrent, but all in the browser.
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FediForum: Unconference September 20-21, 2023
>The Fediverse is growing rapidly. There are now tens of thousands of independently hosted servers, many new apps are appearing, and some big companies (like Meta) have announced they will implement ActivityPub and join the network. What decentralized future will we build, and how do we ensure it serves everybody?
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