Comrade Ferret

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:41:24 -0600

Comrade Ferret
ferret@hub.workersofthe.world

I have a #Jellyfin server that's publicly accessible, too. There's a few rare movies on there, lots of commie shit, and certainly also lots of shit that'll make you go, "Ferret watches this?"

More importantly, though, if you want something streamed ie to your TV but can't or don't want to host your own Jellyfin server; or if you want to watch something synced together with your friends online, hit me up and I'll find and put it on there.

The Jellyfin client is available on pretty much any device that connects to the internet.

https://jellyfin.workersofthe.world
User: WotW
Pass: JucheGang

2025-08-15 19:51:26

Comrade Ferret

ferret@hub.workersofthe.world

Probably my biggest failing, or at least the one that causes me cumulatively the most stress, is assuming that everyone knows as much as I do (or at least should). I guess it's sort of an extension of imposter syndrome, except instead of framing it as being secretly worse than everyone, it's that everyone is secretly as informed as or better informed than me.

So I imagine that since I know that the #fediverse isn't just #Mastodon, then everyone must know.

But they don't, and you might not, so here's a PSA for ya:

Mastodon is just one of many different platforms in the fediverse that all engage with each other seamlessly. Many of the people that you're talking to right now are not even using Mastodon!

All these platforms have differences, whether big or small. Some, like #Misskey and its forks (anything ending with -key really) are more similar: they're still microblogging platforms, just with different priorities, theming, and such.

Some of them, though, are dedicated to entirely different aspects of social media: there's #Pixelfed, that's all about, well pictures (think Instagram); and #Peertube, which, if you'll believe it, is like Youtube. #Lemmy is organized into forums, very similar to Reddit. Despite this, all of these federate seamlessly with Mastodon and other fedi platforms, and you've probably seen people's pictures and videos and forum posts being shared on your timeline without realizing that they're on these platforms — and that when you engage with them, your engagement in return gets sent to their platforms, too, and they don't necessarily even know you're using Mastodon!

Other platforms, like #Friendica, and #Hubzilla (which I'm on right now!) kinda try to be everything all at once. Hubzilla has entire websites built on it.

So, fedi can be as much or at little as you want it to be. It can be anything. If you're like me and you never liked the Twitter-esque microblogging side of social media (I was there when Twitter came out and I hated it) then you don't have to do it: You can find another platform, and still keep all your friends and connections. If you want a photo-sharing account, and a microblogging account, and a video hosting account, you can do all those things, and have them all be connected to the same wider community. Or, if you're not afraid of being momentarily overwhelmed, you can make an account on a Hubzilla platform and have all of these all in one place (or different places, all at the same time; Hubzilla allows you to have multiple channels and multiple profiles on the same account, and also the same channel or profile across multiple different accounts on different sites...it's kinda nuts).

This isn't a suggestion for you to move, more just for you to be aware of just how huge and impressive this whole fediverse thing is, and the options available to you and your friends. There's really nothing you can't do here.