The creator of pixelfed is working on a tiktok alternative loops, although for now it’s in private beta.
For a starting point that is available now, you could look at Pixeldroid, an open source pixelfed app.
The creator of pixelfed is working on a tiktok alternative loops, although for now it’s in private beta.
For a starting point that is available now, you could look at Pixeldroid, an open source pixelfed app.
Besides the ones already mentioned:
The FSF has some channels at https://framatube.org/a/fsf
There’s a bunch of KDE related channels at https://tube.kockatoo.org
Blender has several channels at https://video.blender.org
https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/a/shichimi has Krita tutorials from the creator of the Pepper and Carrot webcomic.
https://tilvids.com/a/martin_owens from someone who works on Inkscape.
https://tilvids.com/a/togglejam looks at the science behind fictional games and shows.
https://diode.zone/c/andrewtropin has a bunch of scheme and guix related videos
There’s some anarchist channels on https://kolektiva.media like CrimethInc and subMedia.
A couple of gaming related accounts/channels:
There’s also sepiasearch.org for PeerTube videos.
There’s a list of people that have agreed to block it at https://fedipact.online/
You might find a few, but it’s not really possible long term. Either you block instances that are run by fascists or child abusers, or you get blocked by instances for allowing that on your server.
About 20k are probably from hexbear, which migrated from their own distant fork of lemmy to the current version, so now they show up in a lot of trackers. They still haven’t enabled federation yet though.
There’s nothing quite perfect, so I still use ddg the most often. They do pull in most of their results from bing, but they also have their own crawler and use a bunch of other search engines as sources. At least they only send the search query to microsoft, so it’s better for privacy than searching directly on google or bing.
SearXNG is an open source meta search engine that compiles results from other search engines.
Marginalia and Clew are a couple of open source search engines that focus on only indexing smaller, independent, or non-commercial sites.
A lot of sites have their own search engines built in, so I’ll often search directly on sites like Wikipedia or Lemmy.
There’s a good overview of various search engines in this blog post.