There are a few alternatives to Mastodon in the fediverse. You can easily find some list in websites like Join the fediverse, Fediverse Party and Fediverse Info. But I want to list someone that I found interesting: misskey - Built with typescript has a really cool Reactions feature. Pleroma - Supports both ActivityPub and OStatus. It is developed in Elixir. Firefish - This is a fork of Misskey. Go to social - Very lightweight.

I use Tidal for my music streaming and I’ve seen quite a feels people on the fediverse sharing their playlists from Spotify. So I looked around and found this app SongShift that allows you to convert from one music service to the other. And it works great. I’ve connected my free account from Spotify and my Tidal account. Once someone shares a playlist from Spotify I open it and add it to my playlists, then I open SongShift load that playlist and start converting it to Tidal.

I’ve stumbled upon a video on YouTube the other day that was talking about the guitarist from Pearl Jam, Mike McCready and how he said once in an interview that the solo for the song Alive was copied from the solo of Kiss’ song She. This blew my mind and I had to go and listen to both songs side by side. After that I went ahead and read the Wikipedia page for the song Alive, to my surprise that information was in the wikipedia and not only that it also mentioned that the solo from She was copied from the solo in the The Doors song Five to One.

I have started using the Openvibe app that is like an aggregator app allowing you to connect to Nostr, Mastodon and Bluesky. I am definitely a Mastodon user more than any other these social networks or any social network for that matter but I still like to have a place for the all three platforms. When you think about this is only possible because these platforms are open so developers can create apps for it.

There is this project called Radio Free Fedi created to promote music from artists from the fediverse. Musicians can release their songs using a Creative Commons license or simply give permission to the radio to stream their music. I’ve been listening to a lot of the RFF Comfy that plays great music to chill or have in the background while working, or writing this blog post for that matter. They have other channels like the Main channel where you will find a diverse variety of sounds, the the Speciality channel which will play themed block where different styles of music are played but on a scheduled time.

Back on my post Design webpages to last I’ve promised I would put together a simple blog that anyone can edit and call their own. Why you would do that? Because it is fun. At the end of this post I will give you some pros and cons but spoilers alerts… there are more cons. You can download the final project here. But I will try to guide you first through the changes you will need to make a new post and them explain what each piece of this simple-blog has.