Since being on Lemmy I feel like I finally found a place I can consider more similar to my home on the web… I feel like this is the real decentralized web, not the next capitalism nightmare which is the so called “web3”…
Give me some guidance! How is the federation thing going? What are some cool projects I need to know about? I know Lemmy, Friendica, Matrix, Bookwyrm, Mastodon, but I’m sure there’s more!
This is a fun thing I found, wish they had an android app or something.
federated browser
Do you mean something like CENO Browser and TOR Browser?
Didn’t know about CENO, it looks super cool! Might have to dig more into TOR as well
How about a federated dildo.
If you want decentralized private messaging see https://delta.chat
I think Hyphanet is the closest you can get to federated hosting provider/Internet
There can be no federated browser though, since browser is just an app installed locally on your device which renders hypertext (HTML, CSS, JS and other tech) on your screen
Maybe search engines idk, something like Yucy?
Not federated, but distrubuted github https://radicle.xyz/
There’s only like 20 some federated projects. I recommend you read into FOSS, self hosting, and Linux as this is what most of us are into and is along the same lines
Since Git can already be federated (no MS GitHub required), take a look at Darcs & Pijul for a better version control model based on Patch Theory. Tooling needs help, but fundamentals are sound.
Everything in the XMPP world is worth checking out. Movim is one of the more interesting projects bring a social media option to the platform & pushing boundaries for clients that is cool to see—as well as Libervia for setting up communities.
Peertube (Youtube-like) and Loops (Tiktok-like) and Pixelfed (Instagram-like Photosharing service) are growing.
A few I’ve been interested in.
- I just saw this project literally today, a federated search engine using web rings - https://gitlab.com/Doomsdayrs/mengzi
- Ibis is a federated wiki by the Lemmy dev - https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis
- WriteFreely is a simple federated blog designed around writing - https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely
- Funkwhale for music hosting (I’m sure I heard rumours about it stopping development but it still seems active?) - https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale
One I’m surprised I haven’t seen (although might inappropriate for the standard, no idea) is an activitypub messenging service like Matrix
The developer of Pixelfed - an Instagram-alike (and now Loops.video - a TikTok like platform) announced that he is working on an ActivityPub messaging service called “Sup.” There’s nothing else really known about it except that he’s developing it. AP would actually work fairly well as a messaging protocol aside from the lack of end-to-end encryption, but that too is being worked on.
I thought I had heard about him making that before but no amount of searching seemed to find it… I guess thats why, I was thinking I had just made it up or something.
I know how that is! Seems like I’m constantly wondering if I just made this or that up. 🤷🏻♂️
What are some cool projects I need to know about?
Email, usenet
IRC
We have federated countries
(well… its more like… confederated rather than federated ¯_(ツ)_/¯)
And there’s Brair there are Brair Public Forums. There is no censorship. But activity is quite dead. Expect to see a post every month, or longer.
I was interested, but I can’t click to visit any of the forums.
You have to create a Briar profile in the app, then go to “Request Forums” on the webpage copy paste their link and add them, and you also have to copy paste your link and put it on the webpage in the blank space where is says “Enter your Briar Link”
Federated wikipedia : Ibis.
Forgejo is working on federated github.
I think of sourcehut has already-federated git hosting because to send the equivalent of a pull request instead of making an account you send patches via email using git’s built-in email workflow. Email is federated, therefore that is federated git collaboration.
The whole workflow and philosophy of sourcehut is so different than GitHub though. I think a lot more people would be interested in GitHub, but federated.
There’s also this which some people may care about.
