I had no idea of the size and variety of the Fediverse! It has me feeling a bit overwhelmed. I’m enjoying BookWyrm very much; it’s the GoodReads/LibraryThing replacement I’ve been looking for for years.

I love the simplicity of Paper.wf for blogging. It’s truly elegant; I just click the link and start typing. But as far as I can tell there’s no way for others to find my blog or for me to find other blogs on the site. There’s no browse or follow feature. Nor can anyone comment on my posts! Those seem to me to be HUGE omissions.

Have you used any Fediverse blogging options? What are they like? And what other Fediverse services would you recommend? Other than Mastodon, I’ve already tried that (it didn’t excite me).

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    I use GoToSocial with Sempahore for my microblogging (alternative to Mastodon).

    Also Owncast as an alternative to Twitch.

    And then I watch tilvids.com and other Peertube instances for videos.

    And of course Lemmy. :-D

    Oh and then there’s Funkwhale for audio.

    It’s all in different states of usability, depending on the communities involved.

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      Do I need to create separate accounts on each of those or can I use this one? Can I log in to Funkwhale with this account or get Funkwhale posts here on kbin, or am I better creating a separate account on each “thing”? I’m still very new to this whole fediverse thing…

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        One of the eventual goals of kbin is to be compatible with the rest of the fediverse and to “just work” with the rest of it. By way of comparison, Lemmy is basically just a federated Reddit, so, this is actually one of the reasons I chose to go with kbin.

        From a practical standpoint, it’ll likely be a while before that becomes a reality, but I like that as a goal.

        I’d say see if you can search for the instance in the search (once we’re 100% federated) and if it doesn’t work and it’s something you want to participate in, unfortunately, you’ll need to go there directly.

        Also - Your kbin.social account can only log into kbin.social, you can’t use it to log into any other sites (this would include other kbin sites, lemmy sites, mastodon sites, etc…), what you can do is see content from those sites by subscribing to them or on the front page (non-subscribed)

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      I would start using Owncast however, a) my current lease at my apartment prohibits me running a server (because internet is included in the rent), and b) I don’t have any kind of computer to run a server on for Owncast.

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        Hetzner is $5 a month for a VPS that would run it. And what constitutes a “server”? A server is just another name for a computer.

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          As someone who is already in debt because of a bad month with work, I’m not sure if I’m able to put out for a VPS. And as for the “server” thing, what I meant was I don’t have a computer I can dedicate to near 100% uptime for running the instances I’d want to.

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            Got you. Totally understand. I used to be in the same situation. $5/month is sometimes better spent somewhere else. With Owncast you only really need it up when you’re stream. You could do that from your PC you’re playing on, but idk the kind of overhead that’d cause.

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              Hmm, it looks like people have “live” sites up that are at least reachable and they aren’t streaming currently. Did I misread how Owncast works, or is there something else going on here with these sites?

              As for running it during my stream (once I move out of my current apartment), I could have my laptop running Owncast possibly.

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                So when you go to the page that’s offline, that’s because the Owncast software is up and running as a webserver. I’ve seen some folks that take the entire page down when they’re not streaming. Really only difference is if there’s a landing page there when you’re not streaming or not.

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                  I wonder if it would be possible to set up something that 307’s to a static page when I’m not live

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                    I honestly have no clue. I’m not a web person. I don’t like this stuff. I’m a backend nerd. :D Bunch of these Fediverse apps I can’t even get running. Just do what I can where I can. :-)