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I know rekabu.ru does because I was looking for Russian-language instances and found that, what else uses it??

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

You can access Photon at https://phtn.app/ to use any instance, or selfhost.

Additionally, some instances I'd recommend that use photon are

  • lemdro.id (which uses it as their primary!)
  • p.lemmy.world
  • photon.slrpnk.net

I'm curious why your instance, sh.itjust.works, hosts Tesseract but not Photon. They have diverged so much they cannot be considered similar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oooo, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

If you like Photon, you might like Tesseract. It's a Photon fork.

dubvee.org
tesh.itjust.works
tess.lemmy.ca
tes.leminal.space

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

[Tesseract is] a Photon fork.

TIL that Tesseract is a Photon Fork. Would you know, by chance, at what point in Photon's development it was forked to form Tesseract, and what the rationale was?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It was forked around a year or more back I believe. They are completely different projects now imo. Photon aims for the best UX and speed, while Tesseract aims to be super feature-rich.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I think @[email protected] might answer. If I’m not mistaking they are the main dev.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

More should use Photon, I love your setup!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

https://lemmy.zip/comment/19564409

That comment from elsewhere in this thread explains you can use it on any instance.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Isn't there a universal interface for photon on any instance? I tried using them at some point but neither is compatible with my networking practices. In only use Alexandrite.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

You can go to https://phtn.app/ and proxy login to any Lemmy instance. But admins can also self-host Photon on their domain, like https://p.lemmy.world/.

[–] Rocketpoweredgorilla 6 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

We run the latest beta.7 on https://photon.slrpnk.net/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Just wanna stop and say open source is cool, neat to see what instances have what interfaces :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

It's default on lemdro.id, suppo.fi and fedit.pl

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

You can log into any Lemmy instance from any Photon instance.

[–] Rentlar 2 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hi, feddit.nl does, they have multiple alternative frontends. Btw, you can just log into photon with any account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

the address is ph.feddit.nl

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