There is Distbin but its been dead for years with no active forks that i can find
I get that, its basically just going back to the model we had before with Teamspeak/Mumble/Ventrilo where the image is meant to be specifically about Federated alternatives/
That seems a little extreme. I would maybe agree if 1) it wasn't being made by the guy who has already got an AGPL project in Pixelfed and 2) it was on open signups. Whilst software is invite-only or closed entirely I don't really see a problem in it not being open-sourced.
I think in recent years the lines have been blurred but I would say Matrix is more "Discord-like" because it is account-centric rather than phone-centric and is designed more around communities than 1:1 IM's to replace texting.
But Revolt isn't federated is it? It wouldn't fit here any more than signal.
The problem is the moment there is another instance then loops.video won't even make sense as that is just the name of the instance and not the application.
Yup, its just called Loops, there is a download link once you log in for the APK directly or to the iOS testflight. (On a related note why does everything keep like this picture keep calling it "Loops.video" when it is just called "Loops"? - we don't call it "Lemmy.ml", "Mastodon.social" or "Peertube.tv")
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.
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
I have a whole bunch of these:
- DevTerm
- uConsole
- GameShell
- BeepBerry
- PocketCHIP
- PICOmputer 28
Non-Linux:
- Hand386
- Book 8088
- Forth Deck
- T-Deck
I'm looking at getting a couple more as well. Honestly I don't have much use for any of them but my favourite and the one I have used practically the most is my DevTerm. I love the style, the screen, its just a really fun little device.
I was a bit surprised to see Kath in a meme so came straight to the comments...