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Confused on what fediverse apps to use
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Misskey, Calckey, Pleroma, Mastodon- All perform the same essential function. Microblogging (with minor differences e.g Pleroma has a 5000 word limit per post) Think Twitter.
Pixelfed is an image sharing platform - Think Instagram.
Friendica will give you a similar experience to Facebook (Macroblogging)
None of those platforms have real messaging (Direct messages, but not private or encrypted)
Okay. So although all the apps support activitypub - only similar apps can replace each other ( like mastodon with calckey)
Apps with different feature sets will have to remain seperate, but will allow following users from different apps (lemmy and mastodon for instance).
Basically there is no single app that can do everything (as of now)
This is idea that i get after reading through the comments. Please correct me if i'm wrong
I think you more or less have it. Rather than saying no app can do everything, I'd probably frame it as different apps being optimized for different things. An app that tried to offer an optimized experience for everything is going to end up feeling like a bunch of apps bodged together anyway (basically like meta) because community stuff wants to looks different than microblogging stuff which wants to look different from photosharing stuff.