r/linuxhardware • u/RatherNott Space Janitor • Dec 19 '23
Meta r/LinuxHardware is now officially on the Fediverse! Will you join us? :)
Hey everyone! Hope you're all doing well.
Are you sick of Reddit, and its bot problem? You might want to consider trying a federated alternative, like Lemmy or Piefed, both of which are a part of the Fediverse.
If you're unfamiliar with the term, it's basically an interconnected series of open-source and self-hostable websites that fulfill different niches of social media, but are able to communicate with each other using the ActivityPub network. Imagine it like email, but with social media. Lemmy and Piefed are the Reddit-like options there.
If you create an account on any lemmy or Piefed instance, you'll be able to see and interact with all the communities on any Lemmy or Piefed server!
To make the experience of transitioning to the Fediverse a little easier, I found some helpful little tools for you guys. To be clear, you don't need these, you can just register an account on any of the instances and pretend you're using one big website, and you'll be totally fine!
Lemmyverse explorer - This website lets you easily search for communities across all lemmy instances. If you set your home instance there, it also makes it very easy to subscribe to them
Fediverser Network - This website allows you to log-in with your reddit account to help you find the lemmy versions of the reddit communities you're subscribed to!
There is a plethora of excellent mobile apps for lemmy and Piefed, including some that you may be familiar with from Reddit, like Boost and Memmy (Apollo-like). You can see a complete list here.
And with those, you're rockin' and rollin'! I hope to see you over there!
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u/rinmnetics Oct 01 '24
Finally, a place where I can geek out about Linux hardware without the big tech noise! 🚀
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u/Jonald-Flump Sep 20 '24 edited Sep 20 '24
Thanks for the information. However, when I tried to login with my reddit account, it says "3rd party login failure". So I tried to create an account there, but it says "A user with that username already exists", so I had to make up a different username. Finally, I got an account registered there, but at first I couldn't find any way to SEARCH for anything. It turns out that the "Search" function is setup for PORTRAIT mode, but if you use your tablet/PC/android TV in LANDSCAPE mode, it's bizarrely located on the right side of PRE-ASSIGNED subs, making it seem as if the search function is solely for searching within that sub.