@fediverse is there any platform in fediverse where individuals can join groups just like Facebook groups, and share media ??🤔🤔🤔
You’re literally inside it. Find the communities you’re interested about and do it
They @-ed at fediverse from a Mastodon account, I think they thought this made a toot visible to all the fediverse as if it was a monolithic entity; they likely don’t know about Lemmy?
It doesn’t really work very well as that. It’s buggy and it’s difficult to really understand. PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin works much better for the purpose intended by OP.
This does mean you’ll need to have separate accounts for Mastodon and Forumverse, though. At least for now. I tried using MBin to combine the two, but in practical terms the user experience was lacking, because Mbin is not quick enough in implementing new features that Mastodon gets. Or ones that PieFed and Lemmy get. Especially the images inside Forumverse posts showing as mere links bugged me like hell! And quote toots on Mastodon not working either.
Friendica is very clunky, but it’s nice.
@[email protected] In a sense of groups, as mentioned in other comments, there are 5 to my knowledge:
- Lemmy, created pretty much as a Reddit alternative
- Mbin, meant as a hybrid of Reddit and Twitter’s post styles
- Friendica, similar to Mbin but with a design philosophy inspired on Facebook
- Piefed, which launched with a similar purpose as Lemmy, and dunno how it is now, but in the original roadmap it was meant to have microblogging support too
- Bonfire, which I heard about and that apparently has community-adjacent features, but yet to test.
@[email protected] , you accidentally wrote your comment in a place just like that. See here: https://nord.pub/c/fediverse/p/127183/fediverse-is-there-any-platform-in-fediverse-where-individuals-can-join-groups-just-like-fac
This thing called PieFed or Lemmy is not the same as Mastodon. @[email protected] is not a username, it’s actually what you would call a group. You sent that toot of yours into a group called “Fediverse” on a server called “lemmy.world”. On PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin groups are called communities, though. But indeed, do click the link above and browse the site that opens.
I linked through my instance, nord.pub, which is mainly meant for people from Nordic countries. If you prefer something else, try piefed.social, piefed.zip, or somesuch :) But of course you can also create an account on nord.pub regardless of where you are from. At least if you know English or some Nordic language. And English you do know!
But indeed: Do browse this thing. Join some communities (that is: groups) that you like. I enjoy PieFed a lot, and for me it has healed that tickle that you’re complaining about :)
Dumb question, but I’ve been using Lemmy for over as year and have been to piefed web interface. I still don’t know what mbin is or how piefed is different that Lemmy. What is the difference? Piefed just looked the same as Lemmy but with more material in a browser.
Let’s explain it this way: Microsoft has programmed a web service that is able to receive, view and send emails.
And Google has done the same, from scratch.
Email itself is merely a way different server softwares communicate with each other.
The same goes here. Some people developed a server software for receiving, viewing and sending ActivityPub content and called it Lemmy. Then other people figured it would be a nice project and did the same, from ground up, and called it PieFed.
They are the same thing. They also don’t have more content or less content. They have the precisely same content. I am writing this on PieFexd, you are reading my comment in Lemmy. And then there is also Mbin.
@[email protected] also, in this line of comparison, someone thought it was a good idea to include SMS support in the email software he was developing, and after dropping the whole project due to health reasons, someone else picked the project to maintain it: enter Mbin
The original project, Kbin, was more designed with Reddit/Lemmy in mind, but had support for microblogging, e.g. Twitter/Mastodon. Since the original developer had to leave development, someone forked it, named it Mbin, and keeps adding features since.
On PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin groups are called communities, though.
Slight correction, on Mbin they’re “magazines”, not “communities”.
@Tuuktuuk Hey, that’s piefed. As an individual, l can always post as much as l like. But imagine a page where numerous people can post ??🤔🤔🤔 Would you call it a community ??🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Yes on Piefed those are called communities.
