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Who went "full fedi" yet? (lemmy.giftedmc.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Bit of a simple question: Some people on lemmy are still posting stuff from youtube, xitter and the like.

Have you gone full fediverse yet or how far are you?

traded reddit for lemmy/kbin
xitter for mastodon
discord for matrix
youtube for peertube

Obviously I also mean other alternatives. Which ones do you use and why?

Disclaimer: this question is me asking genuinely but also trying to make it fun by arbitrary ranking/escalating it. Not trying to say one is better than the others.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've done all except leaving discord, but that's because I'm the owner of some servers. and I don't want to abandon friends.

that and I'm not entirely sure how matrix actually works. I am a newb with a fairly smooth brain.

but I only use fediverse now. lemmy, mastodon and I've swapped to peertube for my TV and newpipe for my mobile app.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I like to explain protocols like that:

ActivityPub (read: Fediverse, Mastodon, PeerTube, etc.) is a way for social media site you use to ask other social media site what posts there are for another profile and proof you like or comment it. Something like two-way RSS feed.

SMTP (Email), XMPP and others are working soft of a way that you request from your email/chat provider to send a message to username@server

Matrix is also a different thing. It create a data structures called rooms that are spread across many servers, that those servers synchronize between each other pulling and pushing latest changes and then your client (app) is synchronizing latest messages with the server.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for explaining. Big upside to matrix is that you can bridge nearly all other services so you have one app instead of discord, whatsapp, imessage, etc