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Fediverse

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+ The Fediverse is a federated social-media network. +

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+ The Fediverse is to social-media what the Internet is to computer-networks. + I.e., just like the Internet is a network of networks, the Fediverse is a network of social-media networks. +

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Mastodon

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+ Mastodon is the most well-known part of the Fediverse + — + due to attention it has been getting from news media and TV. +

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+ Mastodon is not a social-media network per se. + Mastodon is software that anyone can use to create their own social-media network. +

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+ As of 2023, there are tens of thousands of social-media networks that are using the Mastodon software. + And that number has been predicted to grow to the hundreds of thousands in the near future! +

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+ But what is different between this wave of social-media networks and the previous wave of social-media networks is + — + these thousands and thousands of Mastodon based social-media networks federate. +

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+ federation (noun): any group formed from separate entities or objects. +
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More Fediverse

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+ But Mastodon based social-media networks don't just federate with other Mastodon based social-media networks + — + they federate with any software that "speaks" the language of the Fediverse — i.e., ActivityPub and others. + These other Fediverse software includes: +

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  • akkoma
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  • bookwyrm
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  • castopod
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  • firefish (previously called “calckey”)
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  • forgejo
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  • friendica
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  • funkwhale
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  • gitea
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  • gnu social
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  • gotosocial
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  • greatape
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  • guppe
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  • kbin
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  • lemmy
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  • misskey
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  • mobilizon
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  • nextcloud
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  • owncast
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  • peertube
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  • pixelfed
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  • pleroma
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  • plume
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  • postfreely
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  • postmarks
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  • socialhome
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  • writefreely
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  • and more!
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+ At last count there are about 40 different Fediverse software. + Many of them provide a very different experience from the others. +

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  • akkoma, mastodon, firefish, pleroma and others are Twitter-like.
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  • pixelfed is Instagram-like.
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  • peertube is YouTube-like.
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  • friendica and others are Facebook-like.
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  • lemmy and others are Reddit-like.
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  • nextcloud is Google Drive-like.
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  • owncast is Twitch-like.
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  • forgejo and gitea are GitHub-like.
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  • Etc.
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+ Yet, despite all these different user-experiences all these different social-media networks federate. +

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Etymology of ‘Fediverse’

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+ The word “Fediverse” is a combination of (a portmanteau of) the words “federation” and “universe”, or “federated” and “universe”. +

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