Which Lemmy instances use Photon?

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

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

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[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?

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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/.

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Lemdro.id

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More should use Photon, I love your setup!

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https://lemmy.zip/comment/19564409

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

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

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

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

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

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