I know I’ve made the jump to Mastodon, and now lemmy. But what are the other sites that I’m missing out on?
Diaspora* is one that’s been around for yeeeeears. A federated Facebook basically. I always wished it’d take off since I do like the idea of having a personal page for very close friends and my network but it is much harder to take off because, while reddit and other sites have tech-minded folks willing to learn and migrate, very few people have an entire extended friend group looking to figure out what a decentralized federated Facebook would entail.
The sad truth is that Diaspora pretty much refuses to federate with anything other than itself. Some projects have managed to reverse engineer the protocol, but you’d honestly have more luck with Friendica or Hubzilla. Even then, neither of those things are perfectly analogous to Facebook.
PeerTube as an alt for YouTube. Half the folks I follow on YouTube have a channel on tilvuds.com I’ve found, so it works for me.
Pixelfed as instagram alternative is a big one i guess.
Not realy fedi but somewhat: Matrix as mesenger/discord alternative.
The only other ones I personally use are PixelFed (which is similar to IG) and BookWyrm, which is like GoodReads.
Came to recommend pixelfed. I have not set up bookwyrm yet, is it good?
Hey! I like it pretty well so far, although I admit I exited GoodReads so fast I have nothing to compare against really.
