this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
40 points (100.0% liked)

Fediverse

35006 readers
513 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration)

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I know rekabu.ru does because I was looking for Russian-language instances and found that, what else uses it??

top 28 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You can access Photon at https://phtn.app/ to use any instance, or selfhost.

Additionally, some instances I'd recommend that use photon are

  • lemdro.id (which uses it as their primary!)
  • p.lemmy.world
  • photon.slrpnk.net

I'm curious why your instance, sh.itjust.works, hosts Tesseract but not Photon. They have diverged so much they cannot be considered similar.

[–] CraigCabbage@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oooo, thanks!

[–] ZonenRanslite@feddit.org 10 points 2 weeks ago
[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

If you like Photon, you might like Tesseract. It's a Photon fork.

dubvee.org
tesh.itjust.works
tess.lemmy.ca
tes.leminal.space

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

[Tesseract is] a Photon fork.

TIL that Tesseract is a Photon Fork. Would you know, by chance, at what point in Photon's development it was forked to form Tesseract, and what the rationale was?

I think @ptz@dubvee.org might answer. If I’m not mistaking they are the main dev.

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It was forked around a year or more back I believe. They are completely different projects now imo. Photon aims for the best UX and speed, while Tesseract aims to be super feature-rich.

[–] Matt@lemdro.id 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] CraigCabbage@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

More should use Photon, I love your setup!

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

https://lemmy.zip/comment/19564409

That comment from elsewhere in this thread explains you can use it on any instance.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't there a universal interface for photon on any instance? I tried using them at some point but neither is compatible with my networking practices. In only use Alexandrite.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

You can go to https://phtn.app/ and proxy login to any Lemmy instance. But admins can also self-host Photon on their domain, like https://p.lemmy.world/.

[–] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago
[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

We run the latest beta.7 on https://photon.slrpnk.net/

[–] Kierunkowy74@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's default on lemdro.id, suppo.fi and fedit.pl

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Just wanna stop and say open source is cool, neat to see what instances have what interfaces :)

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

You can log into any Lemmy instance from any Photon instance.

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] pkwn@literature.cafe 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hi, feddit.nl does, they have multiple alternative frontends. Btw, you can just log into photon with any account.

[–] pkwn@literature.cafe 1 points 2 weeks ago

the address is ph.feddit.nl