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Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

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Other use cases for the fediverse (lemmy.world)
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I never got into mastodon because I couldn't connect multiple instances. I like this a lot about Lemmy so far (just here for a few minutes though).

Reading about the fediverse got me thinking. What other use cases could you think of? Maybe outside social media?

Would a fediverse password manager be more or less secure than some company owned pm?

How about "clones" of other social media like FB and Insta, TikTok?

What about a blogging community like Medium?

Other ideas?

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[–] ram@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'd like to see a GitHub clone for the Fediverse that enabled the cross-instance forking of code. The recent goings-on with the FOSS Invidious make me worry about the future of all open-source software that tries to allow us some level of privacy. Putting it on a distributed network would be extremely beneficial to prevent megacorps from bullying such projects out of existence.

[–] gredo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I get what you're saying, but you can already get this with a little more work. Clone + Push to other self-hosted git server instance, e.g. Gitea.

But having an overview of publicly available Giteas where you can register and cross-instance fork more easily would be nice.

[–] 0x1C3B00DA@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

there is an initiative for federated git "forges" called ForgeFed. I'm on mobile but will find some links when I'm on desktop

[–] ram@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, I just found it! This is cool and I'm glad it exists ♥