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Sean TilleyThis one is for all the new people on #Mastodon: did you know that the #fediverse has more than just a microblogging replacement? And that they can all interoperate with your Mastodon account?
Check them out!
It’s also worth mentioning that you can integrate your #Wordpress or #Drupal blogs into the fediverse, too! So, you can natively integrate your articles, and replies on the fediverse can show up as comments on them!
WordPress: https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-activitypub Drupal: https://git.drupalcode.org/project/activitypub
Adam@sean I've been trying to get that Wordpress plug in to work for some years now! If they ever iron out the bugs on that and put a management interface into the dashboard, that would be great!
Admittedly, it probably needs some love. If there are any PHP devs willing to pitch it, that project would really benefit.
naught101
Donncha Ó Caoimh@adam @sean I got it working after some head scratching. For WordPress You need the WebFinger plugin too. It doesn't say that anywhere in the docs but it only worked when installed that. I wrote a blog post about it too which you can find at @[email protected] (of course) or on the web at
https://odd.blog/2022/11/06/how-to-add-your-blog-to-mastodon/
I don't know why, but the images in the post weren't all shared, but my photoblog posts are shared properly. They only have one image.
@adam good luck. Might be some odd bug you're experiencing.
Bill Bennett@sean Any idea if this works with micro.blog or Ghost?
Piper Carter@sean I have so many Wordpress questions.
@pipercarter No problem, what's up? 🙂
@sean well, my first question is what role does Mastodon play in the digital landscape? How do you see it’s relationship to websites? I only know it as a social tool to post onto. I’m wondering if there are other functionalities that may be useful? Or is the function to have a social space that points folks to our websites?
Ronny Bergmann 
@sean Very nice list! I just have to figure out how I can follow my pixelfed with this Mastodon account (seems not to work for this one, waiting list here but no notification on pixelfed).
Oh, I almost forgot! There’s also a #SoundCloud replacement called Reel2Bits by @dashie ! As far as I can tell, it’s not being actively developed right now, but it works great, and could provide a basis for another music app?
[object Otter] 
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Elias Mårtenson@sean it may be worth mentioning writefreely as well?
Good catch! I initially left those off the list, because they’re not quite replacements per se…but, WriteFreely and Plume are 100% worth mentioning also!
Eryn McConnell@sean well this is useful. Thanks!
NOISEBOB@sean I'd go for https://raddle.me as the reddit replacement.... it's not federated tho (which i guess is the point of your toot here).....
laticore@sean These seem very interesting! I’ll look into a couple, I haven’t touched federated websites much yet so the recommendations help a lot! 
tan@sean #Fediverse ecosystem. I like it
Simon Dückert@sean Danke, Mobilizon kannte ich noch nicht :)
Simonverwer@sean Thanks! Was looking for this one
InfiniteOne@sean For this non-techie, all these new doors opening up with amazing new worlds that I had no clue existed, due to the kind and courteous tour guides is more than appreciated. The feeling is like Charlie entering the chocolate factory and seeing these amazing creations, courtesy of Willy Wonka.🤣
Thank you! 😁 There’s an enormous amount of potential behind the network. The naysayers often conflate Mastodon with the rest of the network, but have no idea what it’s capable of.
It’s not just a Twitter killer. It has the potential to destroy all corporate silos, and bring a new kind of communication structure to the entire Internet. There’s a lot of hard problems yet to solve, but a lot of awesome things happening.
@sean Thank you, Sean. I will slowly swim through this unending sea that I never knew existed. Cleansing myself of all the “corporate silos” will be some slow funerals, but I will bury them all at some point. Much appreciated🙏🏻
Spencer@sean @HumanityExists As someone who's been living in the chocolate factory for years, it's exciting to see new people coming in.
The internet is so much bigger and more full of possibility than the big corporate walled gardens, and I'm thrilled to be able to share that discovery!
The internet is so much bigger and more full of possibility than the big corporate walled gardens, and I'm thrilled to be able to share that discovery!
dosch 
@sean still missing a fedi-alternative for LinkedIn 🙂
You know, aside from being a place to build a resume, I have never understood the appeal of LinkedIn.
I feel like Friendica might be an okay replacement for the social parts?
@sean LinkedIn serves for a lot of people as way to check who-knows-who and easily find someone you know who knows someone that works at company XYZ
Also everyone I know uses it to stay up to date on news about their work-field.
For people in tech that comes natural in Mastodon, but if you work in, let's say child-care, you are more likely to read about new research on that topic on LinkedIn.
Also everyone I know uses it to stay up to date on news about their work-field.
For people in tech that comes natural in Mastodon, but if you work in, let's say child-care, you are more likely to read about new research on that topic on LinkedIn.
Raph J 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇵🇸 #HelloQuitteXAnd contrary to the private GAFAMs trying to hold you captive : they communicate!
You can follow, like and comment a Peertube channel, a Pixelfed account or a Lemmy community from your Mastodon account !!
All this is free without ads, developped and run by volonteers.
Awesomeness.
This is the real power behind the fediverse! It continues to grow and evolve. It may eventually be a challenger to all social media.
@sean and the beauty: the all speak the same protocol, so can all communicate.
xorman@sean Gitea is also integrating ActivityPub
I’m super excited about that! Federated code forges could end up being a really big deal in the space.
Mike Babin@sean
I've clearly been out of the loop a while and didn't realize all of these things were around. Thanks!
I've clearly been out of the loop a while and didn't realize all of these things were around. Thanks!
RedDave14@sean From a #Fediverse n00b this is a great thread - many thanks for opening our eyes!
ottonafo 🇺🇦@sean #funkwhale, awesome! how come i've never heard of it.
thanks for the hint and hello @funkwhale !
thanks for the hint and hello @funkwhale !
Funkwhale@ottona We refuse to waste millions for marketing Scams or Blockchain, which means you can only hear from us from others directly.
Glad you made it, welcome to the community! 🐳
ₘᵣₒⱼₒ@sean
"Replacement" is a strong word for some of those services. Facebook and YouTube have no replacement yet.
Pixelfed and Lemmy are great tho.
"Replacement" is a strong word for some of those services. Facebook and YouTube have no replacement yet.
Pixelfed and Lemmy are great tho.
I’ll concede that there are limitations (network effects, monetization) but as a platform, PeerTube is really solid. It just needs more creators on it.
Xerz 💗
Hiker
Robert Pickering@sean interesting, but Friendica, Pixelfed and BookWyrm all seem to want to create new accounts (not looked at the others yet). You can then link back to your Mastodon account?
Would be nice if you could sign in with the same account, but guess that's technically difficult.
What I meant was that you can federate seamlessly with accounts on there. You don’t really authorize your Mastodon account onto a PixelFed server. Instead, you follow users on PixelFed from Mastodon, and see their photos in your timeline.
GivMeCoffee 
@sean while it's not federated (I don't think) The Storygraph is an excellent replacement for Goodreads too. Not Amazon owned and has very good features.
Ryan Miller@sean great list, thanks! Do you have any recommended blogging replacements, eg: for Medium?
Dylan Van Assche@sean @pietercolpaert This is a good overview of what exists in the #Fediverse, all of them talk to each other with #ActivityPub :) This shows the real power of #LinkedOpenData IMO!
A. Sebastian Dietzel 😎🥳@sean
Would be awesome if all could use the same mastodon identity.
Would be awesome if all could use the same mastodon identity.
Yeah, this has been a long-talked-about thing. It’s theoretically possible with ActivityPub Client-to-Server API, in the sense that you just run a bunch of frontends that just connect to the same account. It’s an area I’d like to explore more, as I continue to tinker with custom frontends for Pleroma.
Sadly, ActivityPub C2S adoption is kind of limited - Mastodon instead favors its own API for clients, partially because it’s more straightforward for implementors.
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#client-to-server-interactions
Meabh Ní Phríondragáis@sean mind blown! Thanks Sean this is great. I thought I was doomed to feed the algorithms forever more ..can't wait to learn all about it 😍
Mirek Długosz 🕸️
🐛I wonder: how does the plain old blog with boring text-heavy articles fit in? Should we publish our content to #fediverse in addition to #RSS feed? Does ActivityPub-aware website enable us to do something cool or novel? What is theoretically possible?
Or are we stuck with posting links to websites, the same way we do since forever?
I would welcome any reading recommendations on the topic.
There’s nothing wrong with using both. The main draw for ActivityPub integration with blogs is that you can receive replies (comments) directly from the fediverse itself, and people can read your blog posts directly from their social platforms.
People can also follow your blogs with their fediverse accounts and receive updates in their timelines.