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

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[–] ZonenRanslite@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago
[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 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.

[–] Xylight 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!

[–] Matt 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] CraigCabbage@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More should use Photon, I love your setup!

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago
[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] Kierunkowy74@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago
[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago
[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago
[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] pkwn@literature.cafe 1 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

the address is ph.feddit.nl

[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 1 points 1 week ago