@amazing_jupiter hello and welcome, if you liked the social experience of the origins you may find Mastodon and the Fediverse at large to your liking. Hope you can find your home here. You might want to follow @FediTips and the https://fedi.tips website.

@cmdr_nova great tool, but I don't see sociale.network there. It's because our server settings or are you filtering small instances?

@cmdr_nova oh that's interesting. I used to use mastovue for that but with glitch.me shutting down I was looking for something else.

Hokay, I've launched a webapp at https://discoverfedi.app

What's it do?

- Let's you browse the federated timeline of a selected instance (use the change instance button to switch to something else, with mastodon.social being the default)
- Can switch to image-only view for a more "instagram" kind of feels
- Search the entire federated network (uses the fedi observer api, is a bit wonky and am still working out the kinks)
- Search hashtags on the instance you're currently viewing
- Save the instance you're viewing to "favorites" (stored as a cookie)
- Show/hide NSFW content
- Uses GardenFence to block harmful instances from being accessed in the search and display (although blocked content may show up in an instance's federated timeline, this is one of those dents in the development that need un-dented)
- Light and dark theme changed manually, or adjusted to system settings
- Requires no logon credentials, no registration, since many many many instances are publicly visible
- Works nice on a phone

Issues:
- Some instances may return an error
- Some instances may not display properly, especially across different software
- Search is a bit funky

Why?

People outside of the fediverse always complaining about how difficult it is to see what the heck the fediverse is, or choose servers. Well, the problem? There's well over 20,000+ servers, and this may or may not fix the issue of "finding things" lol

This could be an iOS/Android app, but I don't feel like paying Apple or Google money for dev accounts

#discoverfedi #fediverse #development

rimu@piefed.social I've been using web+acct for the acct URI format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acct_URI_scheme

@hsorlie https://makertube.net is amazing!

Can someone recommend a #PeerTube platform for stable and long term-ish hosting? I started a vimeo account at https://vimeo.com/user125809554 a few years ago with the intent of sharing #statistics and #psych lectures and presentations of research papers, but it has turned out to be 90% #mtb #trailbiking videos. 🤷‍♂️ Anyway, vimeo seemed like a better (non-google) option than the "default" youtube at the time, but I want to transition more and more of my stuff to the #fediverse . I pay vimeo now, so I am willing to pay a peertube platform as well, of course. Preferably #European or even #norwegian, if possible.

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