Hi, fedizens! Long time no see.
@lostinlight here 👋, with a small announcement and a big question for everyone who’s still reading this blog or RSS feed (is anyone out there? :)
Once upon a time Fediverse.Party tried to keep up with everything going on in Fedi. We posted about latest software releases and developments on the Chronicles page, via RSS and Friendica account. But no new posts have appeared for a long time.
It’s because there’re three great sources of Fediverse news now: fediversereport.com, wedistribute.org, and @weekinfediverse. They cover all the stories happening in our federated universe. Following them is the best way to stay well-informed!
What shall happen to Chronicles page of this website then? Removing it would not be right; yearly Fediverse recaps and Birthday posts should remain at least for the sake of history. Now that we have a Boosty page, I think it’ll be useful to post about website updates on a somewhat regular basis. Like release notes, but for a website. I hope it’ll help readers find out about new ActivityPub tools and Fediverse-related projects (even though some of the projects added to Software and Developer tools pages are not new, it just took a long time to find them).
So, here goes the summary of October site updates.
Projects added to Software:
- Mbin – a fork of kbin, community-focused;
- Messy – single user ActivityPub instance intended to add Fediverse compatibility to existing Django-based sites;
- SofaPub – a minimally functional ActivityPub implementation in Rust;
- Vidzy – federated alternative to TikTok;
- LibRate – libre media rating website for the Fediverse.
Projects added to Developer tools:
- GhostCMS ActivityPub – an ExpressJS server that integrates with GhostCMS webhooks to publish ActivityPub content on the Fediverse;
- Mobilizon Crossposter – a modular crossposter to bridge events from external sources to Mobilizon;
- M-OAuth – access token generator for Akkoma, Pleroma, Mastodon APIs;
- idkfa – proxy designed to consolidate multiple AP actors; it presents a single unified activity interface to the outside world, while communicating with a cornucopia of internal servers;
- Hatsu – self-hosted and fully automated ActivityPub bridge for static sites;
- Fedipage – Hugo based static page generator and blog with ActivityPub support;
- ActivityPub Test Suite – server-independent, full-automated test suite primary focused on ActivityPub server compliance testing;
- Lemmy Automoderator – automated removal of Lemmy posts, comments based on title, content or link; user whitelisting and exceptions for moderators;
- Lemmy Migrate – migrate your subscribed Lemmy communites to a new account;
- Lemmy Schedule – app for scheduling posts, pins/unpins and notifications about new content in Lemmy;
- Fedi safety – script that goes through Lemmy images in storage and tries to prevent illegal or unethical content;
- FediFetcher – tool for Mastodon that automatically fetches missing replies and posts from other Fediverse instances and adds them to your own Mastodon instance;
- GetMoarFediverse – import content into your instance that’s tagged with hashtags you’re interested in;
- FakeRelay – an API to index statuses on Mastodon acting as a relay;
- masto-backfill – fetches old posts on your Mastodon, Pleroma or compatible instance(s);
- Analytodon – monitor follower growth, identify popular posts, track boosts, favorites, and much more; can be self-hosted;
- LASIM – move your Lemmy settings from one account to another;
- Pythörhead – Python library for interacting with Lemmy;
- Granary – social web translator; it fetches and converts data between social networks, HTML and JSON, ActivityStreams/ActivityPub, and more;
- Combine.social – combine remote and local timelines; pre-fetch all missing replies in your home timeline;
- ActivityColander – Fediverse spam gateway, designed to keep unwanted messages from either reaching your ActivityPub server, or tagging them for handling later.
Other improvements
There’s a new filter by license on Software page. And Lemmy was added to the frontpage.
UX research
Now comes the big question for all the readers of this blog and users of Fediparty website. We’ve been with you for more than 5 years, but never asked you how you’re using this site. What are the pages you visit most often? What pages or features you find most useful? Which ones you find poorly designed?
Any ideas, suggestions, complaints, feedback you have, please, share with us! Here’s a special Codeberg issue for it. Or you can write your suggestions as an answer to this Mastodon post.
Thanks in advance! 💜
]]>Can you believe it’s been five years already? Five years of helping novices gettheir bearings in the varied landscape that is Fediverse. Five years of guiding people towards smaller, niche instances to strengthen the federation. Five years of keeping up to date with all the diverse projects, big and small, that comprise our network.
This was achieved in large part due to all your pull requests with corrections and updates. Thanks to all the contributors! By the way, since moving to Codeberg, our repository is getting almost twice more pull requests than it used to get on GitLab. ;)
Here’s to five more years! 🎉
]]>There were three sets of questions, each having different number of answers. Furthermore, each attempt at the quiz presented you with new questions. To achieve that, we had three difficulty levels (easy, medium, hard), and we picked four questions from each. Shuffling them, we got a unique quiz every time. We hope it was fun :) Now let’s get to the answers.
Easy questions
Which one is a video hosting platform? PeerTube.
Which one is an image sharing platform? Pixelfed.
Which one is a music sharing platform? Funkwhale.
Which one is a platform for events and meetups? Mobilizon (although we shouldn’t forget Gancio either).
Which project has a small Arctic rodent as a mascot? Lemmy. 
We spent so-o-o much time trying to describe mascots in a way that is not a dead give-away.
Which project has a large marine mammal as a mascot? Funkwhale. In fact, it has 3 whale mascots - blue Betty, green Harriet and pink Wanda! All drawm by a community member Robin.
Which project has a marine mollusk as a mascot? PeerTube. 
The cuttlefish named Papa Sepia was created by David Revoy.
Whose mascot looks like a cute bear and feeds on bamboo? Pixelfed. 
You can find the original assets of red panda Fred here.
Which project has a small swift mammal with elongated ears as a mascot? Friendica. 
The community named the mascot Flaxy O’Hare, it was drawn by lostinlight.
Whose mascot animal is native to Australia and feeds on eucalyptus? Hubzilla. Its mascot is red koala. 
The initial creator of Hubzilla lives in Australia.
Which project has a small nocturnal fox as a mascot? Mobilizon. 
Rose the fennec was designed by David Revoy.
Which project has a flowering plant as a mascot? diaspora*. The word “diaspora” refers to the dispersal of seeds (or people) over a wide area and the asterisk in the name represents a fluffy dandelion seed.
Which project does not directly contribute to Fediverse’s development? Twitter BlueSky.
Which project directly contributes to Fediverse’s development and success? Glitch-Soc – a popular fork of Mastodon with extra features.
Who was among the editors of ActivityPub specification? Christine Lemmer-Webber, but don’t forget the other editors too: Jessica Tallon, Erin Shepherd, Amy Guy, and Evan Prodromou. Writing standards is hard; these folks deserve a medal!
Somewhat difficult questions
Which project was named after a music band? Mastodon.🤘 Actually, depending on the sources, the project may or may not be named after the band, but Eugen Rochko, the creator of Mastodon network, is definitely a fan of the band. By the way, one other Fedi project has musical roots too: Lemmy is the name of a lead singer of Motörhead.
Which project first allowed users to add cat ears to their avatars? Misskey. Several people told us that some Pleroma servers used to have this feature even before Misskey, but as we couldn’t find it in Pleroma’s code repository, the answer is still technically correct.
What protocol is most widely adopted in Fediverse? ActivityPub.
How many user accounts are there in Fediverse? 2-7 million. In related news, the-federation.info is under development again. Give a helping hand if you are into frontend webdev and/or Python!
Who published the identi.ca post that marks the beginning of Fediverse? Evan Prodromou.
Which one is not a fork of Mastodon? Pleroma. This may seem an idiotic question, but over the years we’ve seen many newcomers whose acquaintance with Fediverse starts and ends with Mastodon. They come across popular Mastodon forks and assume that all Fedi microblogging platforms are some variant of modified Mastodon. This question was a reminder that Pleroma, like many other microblogging projects, has a different, independent codebase and history.
Which one started as a fork of Pleroma? In our quiz, the correct answer is Mobilizon, but it was pointed out to us that it wasn’t a full-blown fork — Mobilizon just borrowed some of the code. We couldn’t come up with a better phrasing for the question though, so it is what it is.
What is the unofficial Fediverse mascot suggested by community members? Phoenix - the symbol of rebirth, renewal, progress and eternity. A legendary bird that rises from the ashes, just like federated networks fall in popularity and rise again, better and stronger. Hopefully you noticed that the birds at the end of the quiz are phoenixes too!
Which one of these supports Gopher protocol? Pleroma.
What’s the name of a popular Android app for Funkwhale? Otter.
What’s the name of a multi-platform client for Lemmy? Lemmur.
Which two projects are developed by Framasoft? Mobilizon and PeerTube.
Which Linux distribution donated €10k in 2020 to fund live-streaming in PeerTube? Debian.
Hard questions
Which project wasn’t funded by a grant from NGI Zero (NLNet Foundation)? WriteFreely. That’s right, NLNet funded the other five, and we could list even more! Working on infrastructure software isn’t very glamorous, so grants from NGI Zero really help move things forward.
Which project received a $70k grant from Samsung NEXT in 2019? Mastodon.
In what city did the ActivityPub community conference happen in 2019? Prague.
Which project is not written in Go? Lemmy 🦀
Which project is written in Python? Bookwyrm 🐍
Which project is written in Elixir? Mobilizon 💧
When was ActivityPub standardized? 2018. Can you believe it’s been four years already?
How was identi.ca software called at first? Laconica.
Initially, GNU Social was a set of plugins for… StatusNet.
What was the original name of the project now known as Hubzilla? Redmatrix.
What was the original name of the project now known as Friendica? Mistpark.
And there you have it — all the answers to all the questions in the quiz! We hope this was both fun and educational. See you in Fediverse!
]]>Fediverse grew quite a bit over the last year. To all the new users - welcome! And to all the fedizens who’ve been with us for all these years - thank you!
To add a bit of playfulness to this day, we prepared a 🌟fun little quiz🌟 for you. The source code will be revealed in a few days; we don’t want to make it too easy to figure out the answers. :) Please share your scores, and add #FediQuiz, #Fediverse14 or #HappyFedi2U hashtags for visibility.
Cheers,Fediverse.party team
]]>Feneas association, that has kindly hosted this website and its repository, is being dissolved. Thank you to all Feneas members for having us (and hope to still meet you all in decentralized Web)!
Our code repository moved to Codeberg forge. The automated migration from GitLab to Codeberg works like a charm! We’re excited and honoured to be part of Codeberg community.
ActivityPub Apps and Tools lists are now part of #delightful lists curated by @humanetech (updates appear on the website, as always).
Please, update your bookmarks.
The website is now hosted by @minoru. And we also have a mirror, just in case.
]]>At the end of each year we traditionally compile a digest of what’s happened in Fediverse (beginning with 2019 and 2020).
So, buckle your seatbelts and lets travel back in time. Let us watch the progress of glorious Fediverse in the past year.
Credits: image from Pixabay
Fediverse in numbers
In 2021 Fediverse expanded from 5.027 to 7.744 known servers. That’s about +2.700 nodes! An impressive growth, compared to previous couple of years that showed a stable trend of 900-1.000 new servers a year.
In June fediverse.party started counting Plume, Lemmy and Mobilizon in yearly statistics. They account for only 222 servers though, so the rest of the statistics spike definitely indicates that Fediverse is growing! By the way, we launched our own Fediverse crawler in November, to make sure that these numbers are as accurate as possible.
Credits: pie chart by Minoru
The ammount of registered accounts went back up to 2019 levels and by the end of 2021 slightly surpassed that benchmark, reaching ~4.500.000.
We, fedizens, know that numbers aren’t the most important thing in the world. But grown-ups like numbers.
Credits: image by Devran Topallar, Pixabay license
So let’s mention that, despite smaller userbase, Fediverse is showing its true potential for free open source projects: those developers who officially join our corner of the Internet enjoy higher follower numbers than on centralized social networks. \O/
Seven networks growing most rapidly in online servers in 2021 were:
• Misskey 🎉 ~ quadrupled server numbers (+220)
• PeerTube 🎉 ~ tripled server numbers (+760)
• Funkwhale 🎉 ~ tripled server numbers (+83)
• Pleroma 🎉 ~ doubled server numbers (+483)
• WriteFreely 🎉 ~ doubled server numbers (+180)
• Pixelfed 🎉 ~ doubled server numbers (+106)
• Mastodon 🎉 ~ +28% (+792)
Note: these numbers are an approximation based on statistics voluntarily provided by server administrators. Servers go offline / online every hour, every day, so the numbers reflect only part of Fediverse at the time this article was published.
Fediverse in projects
At least 12 new projects joined Fediverse in 2021!
🌟 GoToSocial – social network server written in Golang
🌟 Owncast – self-hosted live streaming platform
🌟 Castopod – open-source platform made for podcasters who want to engage and interact with their audience
🌟 Inventaire – platform for cataloguing and sharing physical books from personal collections and independent libraries
🌟 GoBlog – simple blogging system written in Go
🌟 bopwiki – simple “microwiki” implementation, fairly similar to the Zettelkasten system
🌟 Wolfgame – a game akin to Mafia; once started, it simulates a day/night cycle and allows players to vote on who might be a werewolf during the day
🌟 Dharma – federated community-building platform for Eve Online corporations
🌟 lectrn – social network for humans that is free, decentralized, open, and easy to use
🌟 Catcast-D – federated video live streaming platform
🌟 FChannel – libre, self-hostable imageboard platform that utilizes ActivityPub
🌟 hvxahv – multifunctional decentralized social network implementation
→ For the full list of Fediverse projects in development see Miscellaneous page.
Project forks:
🥄 Ecko – fork of Mastodon to optimize toward community, that is making it as easy as possible to contribute
🥄 Acropolis – fork of diaspora that’s making it as easy as possible to contribute
New extensions:
💎 Group Actor – groups work with any software that implements Mastodon client API; has moderation, admin announcements
Fediverse ecosystem
In July Inexcode] relaunched fediverse.space - a beautiful project that has previously been developed by Tao Bojlén and that got a second life thanks to its codebase being open source! In November Minoru open sourced Fediverse nodes list to help public statistics hubs and to empower new ecosystem developments! And by the end of the year, Fediverse Wiki project was launched.
Credits: background image by Alex Antropov, Pixabay license
Let’s make even more useful, quality projects around Fedi! And, please, may they not rely on avoidable 3rd-party dependencies, like Google Fonts, Cloudflare and other centralized trackers.
More and more official institutions are moving towards FOSS and Fediverse:
• In 2021 Noyb.eu officially established its presence (for the second time:);
• Museums explore federated networks: Beeld en Geluid, the Netherlands Sound & Vision museum installed their own PeerTube server; European Institute for Contemporary Art and Science opened a Mastodon account;
• New accounts of German politicians keep popping up;
• Universities are joining federated networks too.
There have also been ideas to set up an official Fediverse foundation, a legal entity to provide extra opportunities for contributors who want to work on improving Fediverse. Arnold Schrijver has been working on fedi.foundation. Would you like to be part of this initiative? Join the discussion!
Fediverse 2021 timeline
✔ January 7: PeerTube version 3 is out, complete with live streaming feature and a behind-the-scenes 💡 short film
✔ January 17: Lemmur, a mobile client for Lemmy, has its first release
✔ February: Pleroma surpasses the 1.000 servers milestone
✔ March 10: a wave of new users migrates into the Russian constellation of Fediverse
✔ April: NGI Zero organize a series of webinars and workshops called “ActivityPub for Administrations”
✔ April 2: Castopod, a platform for podcasters, joins Fediverse
✔ April 18: diaspora* releases a new minor version. Jonne Haß , one of the core team members, continues work on a new native app for Android and iOS – you can already help with translations and beta test it (the app will work for pods running the develop branch v0.7.99.0 where the API is available)
✔ May: Fediverse holds its very own Fedivision song contest
✔ May 17: Tusky, a popular Fediverse mobile app, is temporarily removed from Google Play Store, because Google doesn’t understand decentralization. Users who’d downloaded it on FDroid weren’t affected. Google had already threatened to remove Fediverse apps in 2020, so this is becoming a nice yearly tradition.
✔ May 18: Fediverse 🐣 celebrates its 13 birthday
✔ May 26: Smithereen, a project offering the look and features similar to Vkontakte, makes its first beta release
✔ June: Owncast is awarded a grant by the NLnet Foundation to support work around federation and ActivityPub
✔ June: PeerTube surpasses the 1.000 servers milestone and becomes second most popular ActivityPub project by node count (after Mastodon)
✔ July 5: WriteFreely, a blogging Fediverse platform, shares an up-to-date roadmap for the next 6 months
✔ July 18: GNU Social maintainers release a long-awaited version 2.0 with ActivityPub support, and later publish some updates and plans for version 3
✔ August 4: Bookwyrm, a social reading and reviewing platform, gets an official website
✔ August 8: Pleroma 2.4.0 is released, featuring many fixes, additions and improvements
✔ August 13: Mastodon is registered as a non-profit organization
✔ September: Fedi stats hub Poduptime gets re-branded and becomes Fediverse.observer
✔ September 1: first Owncast tests of federation over ActivityPub
✔ September: Facebook is caught following Twitter’s practice and flagging posts with links to certain Fediverse related websites
✔ September 8: Pixelfed’s latest stable release adds media licenses, federated stories and improved mod and admin tools
✔ September 25: Friendica “Siberian Iris” is out, with scheduled postings, better notification system and admin panel improvements
✔ September 28: Gitea, a community-maintained Git project, adds NodeInfo support, getting one step closer to ActivityPub federation between code forges
✔ September 28: Funkwhale’s official Android app becomes available on FDroid.
✔ November: Mastodon fork Truth.Social, associated with the former president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, is open sourced after pressure from the maintainers of Mastodon
✔ November 9: Hubzilla introduces version 6.4 that improves file upload performance and all-in-one channel cloning via network
✔ November 13: GoToSocial project makes its first beta release
✔ November 13: Lemmur (Lemmy client) receives funding from NGIZero NLnet foundation
✔ November 14: Lemmy starts federating with several other Fedi projects
✔ November 21: diaspora* core team reveales its short-term plans for the future
✔ November 22: FedeProxy, a project that will allow code forges to interoperate, gets rebranded to ForgeFriends. Earlier this year developers behind the project got a grant from NGI DAPSI
✔ November 23: Mobilizon releases version 2 with many tweaks and improvements
✔ November 30: PeerTube version 4 is out, bringing advanced filter features that improve moderation and administration
✔ December 6: Bonfire team who are working on customizable ActivityPub software share their new beautiful website communicating the vision and the motivations behind the project
✔ December 7: Inventaire becomes part of Fediverse
✔ December 26: Bonfire is awarded a grant from the Culture of Solidarity Fund to support cross-border cultural initiatives of solidarity in times of uncertainty and “infodemic”
Is any important 2021 event missing? Feel free to suggest it in issues or send a suggestion in a direct message.
Fediverse.party news
Feneas, the organization hosting this website and its repository, may soon shut down. This is sad news. Huge thanks to all the Feneas team, and personally to Jason Robinson and Lukas Matt, for your work, for always being patient and helpful. Good luck in all your future endeavours!
Fediverse.party is in search of a new home. It would be nice to move to another GitLab instance. But, as stability and reliability are more important than certain software, we’ll most likely migrate to Codeberg. Let’s wait and see how it works out.
Move slow and build things to last! Here’s to another great year. 🎉
Fediverse is mostly run by volunteers who spend their own money to keep the network going. If you enjoy being on Fediverse, please, consider sponsoring your own local server or donating to Fedi project you most often use.
]]>Last year Fediverse celebrated May 18th as an important, symbolic milestone to remember how it all began. Let’s make this a tradition and a day for friendly interactions, to boost the spirit of unity and vibrant culture!
Let’s reintroduce ourselves
Newcomers are usually advised to create an “introductions” post, telling a few words about themselves, allowing Fedi community to welcome them. Why not have #reintroductions as well, to help both newcomers and oldHeres get to know each other? Please, make a post in Fedi with this hashtag; you can also use festive hashtags of the day - #Fediverse13 and #HappyFedi2U.
Note: If you speak Catalan or Spanish, join the online meeting of fedizens dedicated to this special day (from 19h30 to 21h30 UTC+2).
Credits: promo image - by @titi, CC BY-SA
Planting the seeds
If you have accounts on mainstream social networks, we suggest to turn this day into a chaotic celebration of sci-fi and fantasy films, books and memes! Find images from the films you like, add any text or quote to it and share! There’s only one catch - it should include the word “Fediverse” somewhere. Again, we suggest adding the tag #Fediverse13 in the text of your post, so that other users on those platforms can find and reshare your posts. But if you think these tags may become the reason of shadow bans (which might happen on networks that have an allergy to competition), never mind. The mysterious word “Fediverse” on your images should be enough to tickle the curiosity of your readers, and it’s harder to shadow ban for text-on-image. If the plan works, people will go searching for this magic word, find our federating corner of the Internet and, hopefully, join to stay!
PS. In case you resolutely prefer genres other than fantasy / sci-fi - the more the better, let it be any you like!PPS. If our community manages to come up with nice and creative images, we may feature some of them on our Crystal Ball page, linking back to Fedi accounts of respective image authors. Of course, we shall search you out first and ask for a permission.
Credits: examples created by @humanetech
Social networking reimagined
As more people discover federated networks, organizations slowly begin to acknowledge the existence of our alternative communication channels too and cautiously come to Fediverse to test the waters. Even the European Commission is interested and requested a 3-part ActivityPub for Administrations event. Its goals were to raise the awareness about various Fediverse projects and encourage representatives to create their own accounts or servers, thus establishing a presence in the federating social web.
For all of us this means opportunity. A true reimagination of social networking, creating spaces where people are united in diversity. A place free of Big Tech dominance, where beautiful culture thrives. It’s hard to give up old ways and try out something new, especially after investing so much time into traditional social media. Each platform a separate channel to maintain. On the Fediverse, no more of that! Imagine, if you could post only to Instagram, and people on Facebook, Twitter an other networks could see your posts. Integrated, and reachable from 1 account to interact with. We can do that in Fediverse where various networks are interconnected!
Today is the day!
If you are an organization with an official Fedi account and you also have a presence on big corporate platforms, please, help spread the word about federated networks far and wide! Remind your readers on mainstream media that you can also be followed in Fediverse. Tell the visitors of walled gardens that there are open gardens, wild and blooming, awaiting new waves of pioneers! If you wish to be part of Fedi campaign, please, use hashtags #Fediverse13 or #FediOpenGarden
“Down with giants, up with open, self-governed communities!”Credits: Fediverse mascot characters - by their respective creators; illustration by @lostinlight, CC-BY, source
You can find some promotional materials in these folders. Use them freely and don’t forget to contribute any new materials you create.
🌟 See you in Fedi!
]]>One more year in Fediverse passed. Let’s have a look at what we have achieved in 2020.
Fediverse in numbers
The number of servers grew from 5.027 last year to ~5.900 by the end of 2020. That’s about 900 new instances.
The number of registered users, on the other hand, has decreased and by the end of the year remains slightly above 4.000.000. This may be due to the fact that several large servers went down during the year, and because some administrators periodically remove long inactive accounts to free up space for newcomers.
Whatever the reason, we may rejoice that more small instances keep appearing. That’s what Fediverse is supposed to be doing – decentralizing!
Seven networks growing most rapidly in online server numbers in 2020 were:
• PeerTube 🎉 +320 servers
• Mastodon 🎉 +237 servers
• Pleroma 🎉 +224 servers
• WriteFreely 🎉 +74 servers
• Misskey 🎉 +58 servers
• Mobilizon 🎉 +45 servers
• Pixelfed 🎉 +40 servers
Note: these numbers are an approximation based on statistics voluntarily provided by server administrators. Servers go offline / online every hour, every day, so the numbers reflect only part of Fediverse at the time this article was published.
Credits: picture is based on an image from Pixabay.com
Fediverse in projects
At least 16 new projects joined Fediverse in 2020!
🌟 Bonfire – a plug & play federated social network based on CommonsPub
🌟 Bookwyrm – social reading and reviewing, a federated alternative to GoodReads
🌟 The Occasion Octopus – a federated network of Open Data for discovering interesting events
🌟 OLKi – linguistic corpora exchange platform, a simple gateway to Fediverse for scientific interaction
🌟 Immers Space – a virtual reality metaverse platform powered by Mozilla Hubs and ActivityPub-Express
🌟 Lotide – a federated forum / link aggregator
🌟 Tavern – a minimalistic ActivityPub server
🌟 Learn Awesome – a review aggregation site generalized to all learning resources organized by topics, formats and difficulty
🌟 OpenEngiadina – a knowledge base and a social network using ActivityPub and the Semantic Web
🌟 Gathio – self-destructing, shareable, no-registration event pages
🌟 SemApps – a collaborative, generic knowledge management system for easing data storage and filtering
🌟 FlockingBird – network for professionals, a LinkedIn alternative
🌟 SkoHub – a publication / subscription infrastructure for Open Educational Resources; allows to follow specific subjects and be notified when new content is published
🌟 Reedlebee – a viable Goodreads alternative; book reading progress, lists, reviews, comments, and more
🌟 LubarGW2 – federating guild website using GuildWars2 API
🌟 XWiki Extension – an implementation of the ActivityPub for XWiki
→ For a full list of Fediverse projects in development see Miscellaneous page.
Related new projects:
• SepiaSearch – search engine for PeerTube
Fediverse 2020 timeline
✔ January 6: Smithereen open sources its codebase
✔ January 23: ForgeFed gets funded by NGI Zero Discovery Fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Comission’s Next Generation Internet program
✔ January 30: Funkwhale receives funding from NGI Zero (NLnet)
✔ February: Simon Urli announces plans to add ActivityPub to XWiki, an open-source Wiki platform; receives funding from NGI Zero (NLNet)
✔ March: Pleroma introduces federated emoji reactions in its 2.0 release
✔ March: Friendica adds custom profile fields, support for ActivityPub relays, and starts federating with Funkwhale
✔ April: The French ministry deploys about 35 PeerTube instances, creating a vast platform of educational videos without tracking and advertisements
✔ April 7: New project OpenEngiadina joins the scene. The project was supported by NGI Zero (NLnet)
✔ May: Mastodon’s creator announces that some progress has been made on adding end-to-end encryption for direct messages in Mastodon. By the end of 2020, this is a work in progress
✔ May 16: PixelDroid, an Android client for Pixelfed, prepares for an alpha release
✔ May 18: Fediverse 🐣 celebrates its 12 birthday
✔ June 23: Lemmy project is funded by NGI Zero (NLnet)
✔ July 23: Masto.host, the biggest provider for Mastodon, experiences a major DDoS attack
✔ August: Google threatens to remove several popular Fediverse apps from Google Play on the pretext that servers in Fediverse engage in hate speech and users can be exposed to it via these apps. Fedilab, a popular multi-purpose Fediverse app, receives Google warning too. This brings a wave of rage from users whoblame Google for double standards and demand to also ban Twitter apps and Chrome, as all of them expose users to hate speech. Heated discussions on HackerNews, Reddit and other tech outlets follow
✔ August 28: Pleroma introduces ActivityPub chats in 2.1.0 release
✔ September 09: Funkwhale releases first stable version
✔ September 15: Mario Vavti, Hubzilla core developer, achieves a grant from NGIZero (NLnet)
✔ September 22: Framasoft introduces SepiaSearch - a search engine to help discover videos and channels on PeerTube
✔ September 30: Pixelcat, Android client for Pixelfed, Mastodon and Pleroma, gets traction
✔ October: 👍 Debian donates 10.000 Euros to fund free and decentralized live-streaming in PeerTube
✔ October 2-5th: A conference about the present and future of ActivityPub takes placein Barcelona. 💡 Watch the talks
✔ October 3: SepiaSearch is now integrated in Searx
✔ October 20: Lemmy starts federating via ActivityPub
✔ October 27: Mobilizon stable version 1.0 and a guided tour of the project are released
✔ November: Streaming is coming to PeerTube, a feature awaited by many
✔ November 18: Funkwhale is looking for new maintainers
✔ December 25: Socialhome project adds alpha support for Matrix
✔ December: An ActivityPub conference happens during rC3, 💡 watch the talk about Funkwhale.
Is any important 2020 event missing? Feel free to suggest it in issues or send a suggestion in a direct message.
Fediverse is mostly run by volunteers who spend their own money to keep the network going. If you enjoy being on Fediverse, please, consider sponsoring your own local server or donating to Fedi project you most often use.
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Missing the joy of winter holidays? In search of small DIY tasks to relax and put you in the right mood? Not sure how to tear your kids away from a TV screen? We’ve got you covered! 👍
Let’s create a proper Fediverse atmosphere by making paper toys together!
This wonderful idea first came to @Poudingue when they posted a template of an adorable paper Mastodon.
Mastodon by @Poudingue, image by the author of the toy
Let’s start with Mastodon. Download the template here.
You’ll need:
- scissors, cutter
- glue
- printer
- optionally, a pencil (or anything sharp to make wholes) and thread (if you wish to put your toys on an Xmas tree)
- optionally, some working surface where you can cut without being afraid to skretch the table
- a bit of patience
If your printer is black-and-white, let it not stop you. Paper toys look fine even without colour!
Do not try to make a perfect toy. We’re having fun! It doesn’t matter if you cut it wrong by half a millimeter! Also, you can always correct it with scissors by trimming all the small parts before glueing them together, or even after the toy is assembled.
The general rules are: cut along solid lines, fold along dashed lines. It’s useful to fold and unfold all the dashed lines before starting to glue; makes it easier to work with the template.
Once you’re finished with Mastodon, let’s make red panda Fred, Pixelfed’s mascot. Here’s the template. It’s an easy paper toy - no small details. Just glue all the white parts to the insides of nearby facets, and we’re done!
Next on our list is PeerTube’s mascot - grab the template for cuttlefish Papa Sepia: page 1, page 2.
This one may take a bit more time, with all its legs! If you wish to hang the toy somewhere, remember to make two wholes and put a thread through them, before you start glueing the top of the toy to its bottom.
And one more toy for the final touch. Let it be Friendica’s Flaxy O’Hare. Template.
The only tricky part here is glueing the top part to the body accurately. First apply glue to the left (or right) white part of the top piece and insert it into the slit at the body side. Do the same for the other side. Now it’s easier to glue the center white parts to the body.
Tada! The toys are ready.
Now we can decorate our Fedi tree.
But hey, you can do lots of other things with such toys. Don’t know how to interest your friends and colleagues in federated social networks? Gift them one of these cute mascots. You can write the link to your profile at the back. Suggest your children or friends to make these toys together - they will appreciate a fun “introduction” into Fediverse world! You can decorate your makerspaces and windowsills with Fedi mascots. Finally, you can present them to strangers as a nice promotional material. You could also print stickers for this purpose - but toys will leave no one indifferent, and if you make them bigger in size, they’ll certainly attract attention.
We’ve made only four toys, yet there’re many other projects in federated universe. Have you made any templates for other Fediverse projects? Please, submit them here or send images in federated networks, and the post will be updated with your contributions.
Wish to share the photos of your own Fediverse tree and Fedi toys? Post them in federated networks under the hashtag #PaperFedi2021. 🙂
Happy holidays to all fedizens!
]]>Time flies, and here we are, partying in Fediverse for almost 3 years! “Almost”, because, strictly speaking, the website went online somewhere in mid-winter. It took a couple of months to brainstorm design concepts and make them reality. But November 25th was the day this domain was registered, which is as good as any day for looking back at the journey and for eating cakes!
Left to right: mascots of Fediverse – fennec for Mobilizon, octopus for PeerTube, Fox tan for Pleroma, red koala for Hubzilla, mastodon for Mastodon, Flaxy O’Hare for Friendica, Ai for Misskey, whale for Funkwhale, red panda Fred for Pixelfed.Credits: octopus and fennec characters’ author – David Revoy; illustration by @lostinlight, CC-BY-SA, large version.
This is a static website generated with Hexo, which allows lazy, stress-free maintenance, though, potentially, slightly limits functionality. Big thanks to Feneas administrator team, who make sure the website and its repository stay intact.
✔ fediverse.party should work for users who prefer to block scripts in the browser. This was done mostly for fun (CSS is fun). Has this actually been useful to anyone? Let us know, if it has.
Some things, like power and personal data, are best left decentralized. Other things, like knowledge and public data, benefit from centralization, for convenience. There were no certain plans for the website, except one: make finding Fediverse related things a bit easier. So if you’ve bookmarked this website and returned to it later in search of GNU Social’s new repository or a link to Mastodon’s Trunk that you’ve seen days ago but have forgotten since - then everything works as it should. One bookmark instead of many!
Boring statistics
Since our main goal is to gather information about Fediverse projects, we link to many external resources. Today it’s more than 700 external links.
So far our repository has witnessed 518 commits.
Maintenance work is hidden from visitor’s eyes and is mostly about keeping all the links up-to-date, removing broken and adding new ones, updating information.
Most importantly, fediverse.party has had 11 merge requests by 10 amazing humans!
One of our contributors suggested using HTMLproofer for regularly checking all links, which became a huge time-saver. Many thanks to that clever person.
Most Fediverse projects have a community of their own with communications in dedicated chats and forums. Some projects don’t have any official account which would share latest project’s news. Following the progress of such projects becomes a tricky task. This is where your contributions and merge requests were a significant help. Thank you!
Behind the scenes
The website’s design hasn’t changed much since its launch. Among the newly created pages, perhaps the most useful are two pages listing all known ActivityPub software projects and developer tools.
Did you know we also have a Wiki? It’s a draft for information that later finds its way onto website’s pages. Being a draft, it gives more freedom to maintainers to list any projects, even those that only intend to support federating protocols in the future (while the website lists only projects that have already started initial work).
This Wiki would have been impossible without several maintainers: Danyl Strype, Liaizon Wakest, Eric Buijs and Arnold Schrijver have all contributed to fediverse.party Wiki pages - thank you very much! 👍 Specifically, Danyl Strype and Arnold Schrijver are to be thanked for finding and catalogueing all the newly appearing Fediverse projects. Their valuable work should be mentioned in books about Fediverse research history! In any case, it’s definitely part of this website’s history.
Plans for the future?
The creator of this website has always wished to make it attractive for Fediverse newcomers. Once upon a time, someone submitted fediverse.party to HackerNews. After deciphering angry user comments, we got some really good feedback on what user experience issues the website had! Since then, there were no attempts to find any feedback from common users.
A week ago, preparing for our symbolic 3 year milestone, we had a mini “crash test”, where several completely non-nerdy users were asked to look at every page, click here and there, read and say what they think about it.
The experience was an eye-opener. It can’t be called a complete fiasco: design and pictures received some kind comments. But the conclusion is simple: in its current state, fediverse.party is not helpful to any common grandma, not helpful at all. A new, nontech-friendly version of the website would require much less text (of a completely different nature), much more images and – crucially important – absolutely different terminology.
Which is to say, we won’t try to be a website for everyone. If we can be of any value to tech-savvy people who are already part of Fediverse, our mission is accomplished.
As for another, better version of this site – will it appear? Depends on luck. But nothing is impossible!
Feedback
If you’d like to share ideas on how to improve the website, open an issue in our repository or contact any of the maintainers directly in Fediverse.
And there’s an old bot account that informs whenever popular Fediverse projects release a new version. It’s buggy. You don’t want to contact it. :)
Stay safe, stay decentralized! 🎉
]]>On this day, twelve years ago, Mr. Evan Prodromou published his first post on Identi.ca. Although that project now belongs to history, Fediverse lives on and by year 2020 it has become an incredibly creative, colourful and cozy place, with the potential to attract even more good people.
However, Fediverse is still a small world. It doesn’t matter whether you’re connected to thousands of strangers or are a champion of Fedi blocking. We’re still neighbours.
“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket!”Credits: Fediverse logo authors: @drq and @nestort; mascot Fe-nix - idea suggested by @drq
Join the effort to spread the word about federated social networks, celebrating the dozen years of hard work by many different people: programmers, protocol architects, designers, system administrators, translators, alpha testers, moderators, community managers, and, of course, fedizens - the priceless users of our (for now) alternative social universe.
Have you learned something new in Fediverse? Have you met your IRL friends in it? Found a job? Lost a nerve? Spawned new life? Tracked down and fixed bugs? Had fun?
Please, write a post with the hashtags #Fediverse12, #HappyFedi2U and share your memories and memoirs! If you still have accounts in mainstream social media, help making these hashtags visible and invite your friends and followers to our new world of federated communication.
You can find some promotional materials in these folders. Use them freely and don’t forget to contribute any new materials you create.
🌟 See you in Fedi!
]]>Storm of applause 👏 for all long-time Fediverse supporters, and a warm welcome 👍 to every new user who found Fediverse in 2019.
Here’s what happened to our small corner of the Internet in the past year.
Fediverse in numbers
In 2019 the reachable Fediverse grew from 3.986 instances to 5.027 - that’s roughly 🎉 1.000 new servers online.
The number of registered accounts increased from 2.500.000 users to roughly 4.300.000 - about 🎉 1.800.000 newcomers explored Fediverse networks!
Five networks growing most rapidly in online server numbers in 2019 were:
Three other Fediverse platforms that expanded significantly in 2019:
• Misskey 🎉 +37 servers
• Plume 🎉 +23 servers
• Funkwhale 🎉 +15 servers
Please, note: these numbers are an approximation based on statistics voluntarily provided by server administrators. Highly volatile (servers go offline / online every day), the numbers reflect only part of Fediverse at a given period of time (today!).
Fediverse in projects
At least 9 new networks expressed a wish to become part of Fediverse!
🌟 Mobilizon - a network to gather, organize, and mobilize
🌟 Epicyon - ActivityPub server written in Python, for low-powered hardware
🌟 Honk - Go ActivityPub server focused on minimal setup and support costs
🌟 Lemmy - a federated alternative to Reddit in Rust
🌟 Gancio - a shared agenda for local communities, supports ActivityPub
🌟 Guppe - project adds “groups” support: group-type actors forward posts to group members
🌟 Kanzaki - ActivityPub-speaking server in OCaml
🌟 Smithereen - VKontakte-like social network written in Java
🌟 MoonTreeProject - link aggregator, a work in progress
→ For a full list of Fediverse projects in development see Miscellaneous page.
Project forks:
• Hometown - a Mastodon fork that includes some unique features
• Dolphin - single user microblogging server, sister project to Misskey
• Groundpolis - microblogging network based on Misskey
Related new projects:
• ForgeFed: an upcoming federation protocol, built as an extension to ActivityPub, for interoperability between version control services
Fediverse 2019 timeline
✔ January: Mastodon receives a Samsung Stack Zero grant
✔ January: Friendica successfully adopts ActivityPub protocol
✔ February: Google writes code for Mastodon
✔ March: Pleroma has its first stable release
✔ March: Socialhome adds ActivityPub federation
✔ April: WriteFreely searches for new developers on a contract basis, becoming a Fediverse project that creates FOSS jobs
✔ May: Fediverse has a 🐣 Birthday, technically - 11 years and counting. Happy Birthday, Fedi!
✔ July: Hubzilla community announces a call for participation to standardize the Zot protocol used in Hubzilla software
✔ July: Pixelfed starts federating with other Fedi networks. A long awaited update
✔ August: ActivityPub conference in Prague - 💡 watch the videos
✔ October: Framasoft releases the first beta version of Mobilizon
✔ November: GNU Social tests federation over ActivityPub
✔ November: Pixelfed gets a grant from NLnet
✔ November: Indian users massively leave Twitter for Mastodon
✔ November: Well-known activist Aral Balkan speaks at the European Parliament about the future of Internet regulation and the role of Fediverse platforms - 💡 watch the video
✔ December: Funkwhale starts federating with Mastodon
✔ December: users from Scotland massively join Mastodon (popular hashtag: #TwitterExodusScotland)
✔ December: mass Spanish speakers migration from Twitter to Mastodon (popular hashtag: #YoMigroAMastodon)
Things to happen in 2020
• Fediverse Conference in Barcelona
• Spoiler from the future: millions of people discovering Fediverse networks and migrating from centralized silos. Be prepared!
Issues to be resolved in 2020
One of the main goals of federating software is decentralizing the web. That requires many Fediverse servers each having a small number of users, hosting data in physically decentralized manner. That’s the ideal, a perfect image.
But in real world most people register on large Fediverse servers with thousands of users: they’re popular, more stable and reliable, their friends are there. And server administrators tend to choose large, well-known hosting solutions: they’re cheaper, more stable and reliable. This leads to a situation where 80% of total users are all crowded on 10 large (“flagship”) instances, and 40% of all servers are hosted mainly by 5 companies.
Most used providers 2019:
The situation hasn’t changed much since 2018 Leah’s research on server distribution. Will something change in 2020?
Fediverse.party news:
The fediverse.party website changed its home! Our code can now be found on GitLab hosted by 👍 Feneas, a non-for-profit association registered in Finland and run by humans who care about federated web projects.
We invite all authors who would like to submit an article to fediverse.party. Are you developing a Fediverse project? Tell everyone about it! Do you write about complicated things in a simple, user-friendly language? This website’s main audience are newcomers to Fediverse who may have no technical background, they will appreciate your explanatory skills. Are you a researcher of Fediverse software ready to comment on its strengths and weaknesses? Please, share your expertize! Here’re the guidelines for submitting an article.
P/s Fediverse is 99% run by volunteers who spend their own money to keep the network going. If you enjoy being on Fediverse, please, consider sponsoring your own local server or donating to Fediverse project you most often use.
]]>You may have noticed not a post has been published in the Chronicles since the end of 2018. Has Fediverse run out of news? Certainly not. Here’s a brief overview of what has happened during this period.
Dull figures
The 2018 report (update: link not available anymore) reveals that the world of federating networks has greatly expanded. The first three months of 2019 have seen about 450 new servers - hopefully, some of them will stay online (and updated). New accounts are being created and, apparenty, people remember about their old accounts, as the number of active users on most Fediverse networks increases weekly. If you wish to research figures, subscribe to Federation stats bot via any diaspora protocol platform (diaspora, Friendica, Hubzilla or Socialhome). Provided numbers are an approximation, and some projects are misrepresented: Friendica, Hubzilla real server numbers, GNU Social account numbers stand higher than metrics show. This is due to technical issues (mainly with NodeInfo / NodeInfo2), and because some servers opt out of taking part in statistics. The good news is Fediverse keeps growing!
New kids on the block
ActivityPub protocol stirred up many developers. Not a month passes now without a new federating project. The young blood of 2019 are Mobilizon and Smilodon. Fediverse developing software and related tools are all listed here. There’s also a Wiki.
At the same time several projects are being abandoned. Osada is one of those - the lead developer announced that the software won’t get any future updates. The world of OStatus federating projects (GNU Social, postActiv) has also been quiet for a long while.
Among older projects Pleroma, a lightweight microblogging network, has recently had its first stable release.
A fine end to the year 2018, diaspora project got an API. It’s still a work in progress, with luck we’ll see more diaspora-related applications this year.
Not everyone is excited about ActivityPub protocol. Diaspora developer shared final thoughts on the topic. Pleroma has implemented its own LitePub protocol version. Nevertheless, the majority of Fediverse new apps support federation over ActivityPub, and there’s a forum where developers meet to discuss things.
Unexpecto patronum
In other news, Mastodon project received a Stack Zero grant from Samsung Next and was definitely noticed by Google, Keybase and the Meet group corporation.
Friendica now has a mascot! Its name is Flaxy O’Hare. 🐰
Fediverse.Party update
Initially this website was created as a guide for newcomers to Fediverse, a modern source of information one can use as a reference. As federating projects multiply, it becomes tricky to cover all the things happening in each project’s community. On the other hand, all recent posts published here were release notes. Newcomers to Fediverse most likely find it boring to read interpetations of technical feature additions. And seasoned fedizens keep track of new releases by following project’s official announcements. Or one can follow a bot aggregating all releases via RSS - also available directly from Fediverse (releases@venera.social) and best formated in diaspora protocol networks; following the bot from Mastodon not recommended because of the way Mastodon handles articles with titles.
For reasons stated above there will be no more posts about software releases. The primary focus will be keeping the main website information up-to-date and publishing long-form articles about federating world, comparing its software, exploring its strengths (and weaknesses). Perhaps we’ll regularly cover what’s new in Fediverse - that’s still to be decided by our (rather small) team.
Happy decentralizing!
]]>"For Artists and Hackers, Academics, and Admins. For Humans who Grok stuff. Those self taught, and persistent. For those who build for Us: Tools to own and run. For People in Community: Who will not be a Commodity, For Our Internet, And all who sail on her. Useful may it be. Save time may it much".This is the right time to notice that fediverse.party is looking for authors! Anyone who would like to write about federated social platforms in a simple, user-friendly way, please, see the issue for details. One-time contributions, series of posts, a best-seller book about Fediverse… You name it. Fediverse Chronicles are waiting for you!
]]>Happy hacking!
]]>Compared to popular mass giants, Fediverse networks are like precious gems. Few people heard of them, but they are out there, waiting for you to find them.
“Fediverse” means federated universe. There’s no one website to sign up to. Instead you will find hundreds of websites (servers) powered by citizens all around the world, independent from and uncontrolled by any single company. These servers are all interconnected, so no matter where you register[1], you’ll be able to connect with friends and users of other servers.
Instead of listing “one hundred suits them all” reasons why you should switch to federated social platforms, let’s look at reasons for each particular person. That’s what Fediverse is good at - providing choices.
- If you’re an extrovert, linguist
- If you’re an introvert, nerd, geek, scholar, developer
- If you’re a content creator, freelance artist
- If you’ve been censored on centralized platforms
- If you care about privacy, are a privacy advocate or NGO
- If you’re a troll
- If you don’t like to share your telephone number with “pickup artists”
- If you’re a big corp engineer, secret agent
Federated socializing is your cup of tea. Currently[2] there are about 3.500.000 registered users in Fediverse online world. Compared to corporate giants, that’s like a small eco village.
It’s natural in Fediverse to welcome new users, to start conversations with anyone who shares your interests, to follow strangers. Do you easily connect with people from other cultures and regions? Would you like to broaden your social network and become neighbours and friends with people from somewhere on the other side of the map from you? We have communities dedicated to all sorts of hobbies, regions, languages, political and social views, ecology and animal related servers, books, shows and games. Choose your community.
A wonder you’re still not part of Fediverse! It’s your space, it’s full of people like you. We’re scattered across Fediverse servers, searching for kindred spirits. There are communities for researchers, bookworms, game developers, web developers and techies, as well as servers run by respectable organizations and entities.
Your content should be yours, without granting the explicit rights to any corporate third parties. Fediverse communities have high opinions of creators and willingly support their work through donations. We have communities for writers, artists and photographers. Here’re recommentations on how to become a successful artist on Mastodon. Share your talents with fedizens.
Federated social networks do not have one holy administrator who decides whom and what to ban. You’ll find multiple servers for sensitive, vulnerable communities. Unlike on mainstream social networks, you will not be silenced for personal views. It’s customary to share some images and content adding a special #NSFW tag (not safe for work): for spoilers, content inappropriate for children or for people at work. Remember still that each server is run by a volunteer, living in some country with its laws and regulations. Most servers have local rules, and your administrator has the power to ask you leave if you do something nasty. You’ll be able to migrate to another server and do nasty things again, but you’d rather not. Spammers are not welcome, Fediverse administrators quickly react and share information withing the community. Other users have the ability to “ignore” or “mute” people who irritate them. Being nice to each other is a tradition here.
Then you definitely heard about Snowden revelations, Cambridge Analytica, Equifax breach], Exactis leak, manipulative practices, multiple user data hacks, and so on and so forth. Big centralized websites with big juicy collections of data are useful for mass surveillance.
Are your friends aware of it? By leaving mainstream networks behind and joining Fediverse you do not automatically gain privacy. Securing data is hard, and federated networks will not protect you from targeted state surveillance. They will, however, protect from corporate mass surveillance. Especially if you spin up your own personal server, secure it, and host it at home. By inviting friends and family to Fediverse you help them treat their personal data wisely, you also help them broaden horizons, find out more about free and open source movements, become technically skilled. Everyone curious who likes to explore will learn in Fediverse.
As a privacy rights organization, by opening your own server or your official Fediverse account on one of the existing servers, and inviting followers on mainstream networks to join you in Fediverse, you help make bulk data collection more diffuclt and costly.
Fediverse has a server in your honour! Be nice to each other.
Those who invented “pickup” thingy were on a mission to help people stay single, right? When someone weird approaches you in real life and you don’t know what to make of them, why share your phone number or email? If you wish to test their Internet IQ and determination, tell them you’ll meet them in Fediverse. A Fediverse account resembles an email and includes your nickname and your server URL - for example, jane@nerdpol.ch. Anyone who really wants to connect with you, will find the way to join Fediverse and search for your profile.
Then you’re clever. Are you capable of empathy? Come on the light side. Transparency is your power, and there’s nothing old-fashioned about privacy for your family and loved ones. Just like for all the other citizens of the world. If you know that at heart, you will be invaluable in building social networking the right way.
Not convinced yet? Ask this
…and it will show the reason just for you.
Federated networks won’t track you, bombard with “personalized” ads or predefine your timeline (stream) with algorithms. You will be the one to decide what to see in your timeline, by following the topics you’re interested in (subscribing to tags in diaspora, Mastodon), connecting with people you like, joining groups and forums (in Friendica, Hubzilla). Come join us!
Fediverse networks are not ideal. They lack some features provided by mass networks. This is because they are not backed by millions of dollars big companies have, they’re developed by people like you and me, in their spare time, for free or for donations from the community. If you want to help improve any of the federated platforms, don’t hesitate to ask how to help and start contributing. Welcome!
Initial call for contributors was published here.
]]>Hypolite Petovan, Friendica developer, wrote a summary on what it would take to make private data in Fediverse networks truely private. He uses Friendica network as a reference, but this applies to all Fediverse networks that have limited view messages.
If you consider this topic important, join the discussion.
]]>This adds to several other alternative Mastodon frontends, like Pinafore and Halcyon. The latter can be used with Pleroma, as well as a new diaspora-like frontend Feather.
]]>You may have noticed that diaspora* is missing some features.
As an open-source Free Software project, diaspora* is created by its community. Now that you’re part of this community, we’d love you to help us improve it for everyone.
Read the official call for help here.
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social network where you are in control
19.08.24overview
category
social networktype
macrobloggingcreated
2010official page
diasporafoundation.orglicense
AGPL-3.0source code
repositorywritten in
Rubyprotocols
wiki
resourcestutorials
for techies
population ~ 286 854 accounts
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diasporiansconnects
- Friendica,
- Hubzilla,
- Socialhome,
The diaspora* project appeared in 2010, when a group of friends decided to create a social network that would return control to users. The project's mascot is dandelion, and diaspora* servers are called "pods". Information about the new network spread far and wide like dandelion's seeds in the wind, attracting newcomers, increasing the number of available pods. Today it's a community project with a stable userbase. Many people joined diaspora* in search of a macroblogging platform independent from corporations.
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- polls
- markdown support
- following hashtags
- limited posts
- hiding contact list
- birthday notifications
- two-factor authentication (TOTP)
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- Creating a contact group ("aspect") and adding specific contacts there, you can make limited posts visible only to these people. After publishing a limited post you won't be able to change its visibility, it will forever be visible only to a particular group of people. New contacts added to that aspect will see only new limited posts published after they've been added to the aspect
- Direct messages ("conversations") can't be deleted. You can mute a conversation and hide it from view. Your conversation will be kept in the database of the server you're registered on and the servers your correspondents are on. Don't use diaspora* conversations for sharing sensitive information
- When you mute a "conversation" with someone, they won't know you did it. If they continue sending you direct messages in that muted conversation, you won't get them. Make sure your contacts know that the conversation was muted and is no longer available on your side
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Choose a mobile application from the available ones:
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If you'd like to help the diaspora network grow, you can contribute in different ways.
- Donate to the administrator of your server (if you have the means to do that).
- Set up your own instance, to make federation stronger and healthier, with many small servers.
- Spread the word. Invite your friends. Explain why it's important.
- Contribute with code. Send a pull request. Resolve an issue. Take a bounty.
- Help translating. Design promo materials. Print and distribute stickers.
Thank you. See you in diaspora.
About Fediverse
diversity is strength
19.08.24Fediverse
is a new word made of two words: “federation” + “universe”It is a federated social network running on free open software on a myriad of computers across the globe. Many independent servers are interconnected and allow people to interact with one another. There's no one central site: you choose a server to register. This ensures some decentralization and sovereignty of data. Fediverse (also called Fedi) has no built-in advertisements, no tricky algorithms, no one big corporation dictating the rules. Instead we have small cozy communities of like-minded people. Welcome!
population ~ 12 111 960 accounts
active users ~ 2 119 993people
servers > 17 130 instances
platforms
related projects
protocols
Fediverse social network differs from mainstream platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc). Mainstream platforms concentrate millions of users on one website, where they control all the decision-making, enforce censorship, and hoard users' data for commercial profit and spying. Fediverse platforms, on the other hand, are developed by a community of people from all over the world, independent from any company or official institution. You are free to register on any Fediverse website you like. You can choose the person who will be in charge of your data - the administrator of your server. If you have technical knowledge, you can administrate your own server for your friends and family, connecting with thousands of other independent servers across the web. Fediverse is an autonomous universe where power and data are decentralized and scattered across multiple lands.
additional reading
developer resources
Friendica
keep in contact with people you care about
19.08.24overview
category
social networktype
macrobloggingcreated
2010official page
friendi.calicense
AGPL-3.0source code
repositorywritten in
PHPprotocols
wiki
resourcesfor techies
utilities
population ~ 20 063 accounts
active users ~ 4 787people
servers > 279 instances
world
mascot
- Flaxy O'Hare,
dwellers
friendscommunities
connects
- diaspora*,
- GNU Social,
- Hubzilla,
- Mastodon,
- Misskey,
- Pixelfed,
- Pleroma,
- Plume,
Friendica aims at being a platform that suits everyone. Newcomers will feel right at home: the network's interface and functionality include common features of a mainstream social network. Being comparatively light on resources makes it attractive for administrators to host (Friendica servers are called "nodes"). The community is good-natured and helpful. Friendica is well connected with the rest of Fediverse — its users can follow friends on most other federated networks.
join the network
Choose a server with open registrations and create an account:
Choose a mobile application from the available ones:
additional reading
contributing
If you'd like to help the Friendica network grow, you can contribute in different ways.
- Donate to the administrator of your server (if you have the means to do that).
- Set up your own instance, to make federation stronger and healthier, with many small servers.
- Spread the word. Invite your friends. Explain why it's important.
- Contribute with code. Send a pull request. Resolve an issue. Take a bounty.
- Help translating. Design promo materials. Print and distribute stickers.
Thank you. See you in Friendica.
Funkwhale
a social platform to enjoy and share music
19.08.24overview
category
social networktype
audio streamingcreated
2015official page
funkwhale.audiolicense
AGPL-3.0source code
repositorywritten in
Pythonprotocols
wiki
resourcesfor users
for techies
population ~ 11 494 accounts
active users ~ 1 807people
servers > 98 instances
world
mascot
whale,
connects
- Mastodon,
Funkwhale is a community-driven project that lets you listen and share music within a decentralized, open network. Funkwhale is not only an audio server and player, it was designed to be a place for socializing around music and discovering new content.
features
- radios
- playlists
- favourites
- broadcasts
- recommendations
join the network
Choose a server with open registrations and create an account:
Choose a mobile application from the available ones:
additional reading
contributing
If you'd like to help the Funkwhale network grow, you can contribute in different ways.
- Donate to development team or the administrator of your server (if you have the means to do that).
- Set up your own instance, to make federation stronger and healthier, with many small servers.
- Spread the word. Invite your friends. Explain why it's important.
- Contribute with code. Send a pull request. Resolve an issue. Take a bounty.
- Help translating. Design promo materials. Print and distribute stickers.
Thank you. See you in Funkwhale.
GNU Social
connecting free libre communities across the web
19.08.24overview
category
social networktype
microbloggingcreated
2010official page
www.gnusocial.rockslicense
AGPL-3.0source code
repositorywritten in
PHPprotocols
tutorials
utilities
population ~ -477 accounts
active users ~ 212people
servers > 10 instances
world
mascot
- gnu,
dwellers
GNU-hackersconnects
- Friendica,
- Hubzilla,
- Mastodon,
- Pleroma,
GNU Social creators are the founding fathers of free libre microblogging networks. The platform has a significant userbase and multiple plugins.
join the network
Choose a server with open registrations and create an account:
additional reading
contributing
If you'd like to help the GNU Social network grow, you can contribute in different ways.
- Donate to the administrator of your server (if you have the means to do that).
- Set up your own instance, to make federation stronger and healthier, with many small servers.
- Spread the word. Invite your friends. Explain why it's important.
- Contribute with code. Send a pull request. Resolve an issue. Take a bounty.
- Help translating. Design promo materials. Print and distribute stickers.
Thank you. See you in GNU Social.
Hubzilla
powerful tool for a decentralized nomadic identity
19.08.24overview
category
social networktype
macrobloggingcreated
2015official page
hubzilla.orglicense
MITsource code
repositorywritten in
PHPprotocols
tutorials
cheat sheets
population ~ 4 871 accounts
active users ~ 1 127people
servers > 69 instances
world
mascot
- red koala,
dwellers
hubzillianscommunities
connects
- diaspora*,
- Friendica,
- GNU Social,
- Mastodon,
- Pleroma,
The multi-purpose Hubzilla network is home to nomads and power users. It includes a significant number of features and granular settings. Take your time to explore all of them. If you have questions, don't hesitate to post to developer forums or ask the community. Hubzilla is well connected to the rest of Fediverse and will let you follow users from most other federated networks.
features
- granular privacy settings
- polls
- forums
- file sharing
- expiring posts
- nomadic identity
- events
- calendar
- encrypting comments with passphrase
information
- By default Hubzilla account federates only within Hubzilla network. You need to turn on ActivityPub and diaspora plugins in profile settings in order to connect with your friends from other networks
- Sharing files is possible only between Hubzilla users, friends from other networks will not have access to shared files
join the network
Choose a server with open registrations and create an account:
Choose a mobile application from the available ones:
additional reading
contributing
If you'd like to help the Hubzilla network grow, you can contribute in different ways.
- Donate to the administrator of your server (if you have the means to do that).
- Set up your own instance, to make federation stronger and healthier, with many small servers.
- Spread the word. Invite your friends. Explain why it's important.
- Contribute with code. Send a pull request. Resolve an issue. Take a bounty.
- Help translating. Design promo materials. Print and distribute stickers.
Thank you. See you in Hubzilla.
Friendica Friendica
Personal network with no central authority or ownership. Keep in contact with people you care about
Lemmy Lemmy
Follow communities anywhere in the world
Mastodon Mastodon
Social networking back in your hands. Find your perfect community. Take control of your content
PeerTube PeerTube
Decentralized video hosting. Take back the control of your videos
Pleroma Pleroma
Federated microblogging, light as a feather
Funkwhale Funkwhale
A social platform to enjoy and share music
Hubzilla Hubzilla
Feature-rich social platform. Create channels with a decentralized nomadic identity
Misskey Misskey
Sophisticated microblogging with personality
Pixelfed Pixelfed
Federated social image sharing for everyone
diaspora diaspora
Online world where you are in control. Own your data. Choose your audience. Be who you want to be
Hello, traveller!
Leave the familiar Web behind, and dive into the unique part of the Internet.
This is the world of independence and diversity.
A universe that you shape, refine and expand.
Knowledge
the truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is
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Lemmy
Follow communities anywhere in the world
19.08.24overview
category
social networktype
link aggregationcreated
2019official page
join-lemmy.orglicense
AGPL-3.0source code
repositorywritten in
Rustprotocols
wiki
resourcespopulation ~ 1 364 805 accounts
active users ~ 86 173people
servers > 582 instances
world
mascot
- lemming,
dwellers
?communities
connects
- Friendica,
- Mastodon,
- Pleroma,
Lemmy is a self-hosted link aggregation and discussion platform. It's like Reddit or Hacker News, but better. Content is organized into communities, so it's easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.
features
- full vote scores (+/-) like old Reddit
- emojis with autocomplete support
- themes
- NSFW post / community support
join the network
Choose a server with open registrations and create an account:
Choose a mobile application from the available ones:
additional reading
contributing
If you'd like to help the Lemmy network grow, you can contribute in different ways.
- Donate to development team or the administrator of your server (if you have the means to do that).
- Set up your own instance, to make federation stronger and healthier, with many small servers.
- Spread the word. Invite your friends. Explain why it's important.
- Contribute with code. Send a pull request. Resolve an issue. Take a bounty.
- Help translating. Design promo materials. Print and distribute stickers.
Thank you. See you in Lemmy.
Mastodon
find your perfect community
19.08.24overview
category
social networktype
microbloggingcreated
2016official page
joinmastodon.orglicense
AGPL-3.0source code
repositorywritten in
Rubyprotocols
for users
tutorials
- How to Mastodon /
- Guide /
population ~ 8 773 484 accounts
active users ~ 1 788 001people
servers > 9 942 instances
world
mascot
mastodon,
dwellers
mastonautscommunities
connects
- Friendica,
- Hubzilla,
- microblog.pub,
- Misskey,
- PeerTube,
- Pixelfed,
- Pleroma,
- Plume,
- WriteFreely,
Mastodon is the largest federating social network. You'll find everything you want of a microblogging platform, and much more. There are numerous Mastodon servers (called "instances") created specifically for certain communities and dedicated to various interests, spheres of knowledge, regions and activities.
features
- polls
- custom emojis
- pinned posts
- featured hashtags
- admin announcements
- hiding followers
- spoiler warnings
- user-level mutes and blocks
- bookmarks
- redrafting posts
- contact lists
- image upload with focal points
- verifying external links in your profile
- filtering out unwanted content by keywords
- two-factor authentication (TOTP)
information
- Direct messages ("private messages") are delivered with limited visibility (non public) only between Mastodon users. Friends from other Fediverse networks may get such "direct messages" as public (visible to all) because some networks (GNU Social) don't support DMs. Keep that in mind when sharing private information via a DM.
early adopters
join the network
Choose a server with open registrations and create an account:
Choose a mobile application from the available ones:
additional reading
contributing
If you'd like to help the Mastodon network grow, you can contribute in different ways.
- Donate to development team or the administrator of your server (if you have the means to do that).
- Set up your own instance, to make federation stronger and healthier, with many small servers.
- Spread the word. Invite your friends. Explain why it's important.
- Contribute with code. Send a pull request. Resolve an issue. Take a bounty.
- Help translating. Design promo materials. Print and distribute stickers.
Thank you. See you in Mastodon.
19.08.24
Misskey
sophisticated micro blogging
19.08.24overview
category
social networktype
microbloggingcreated
2014official page
misskey-hub.net/enlicense
AGPL-3.0source code
repositorywritten in
TypeScriptprotocols
wiki
resourcespopulation ~ 826 614 accounts
active users ~ 26 941people
servers > 1 073 instances
world
mascot
藍 (Ai),
dwellers
Miskistconnects
- Friendica,
- Hubzilla,
- microblog.pub,
- Mastodon,
- PeerTube,
- Pixelfed,
- Pleroma,
- Plume,
- WriteFreely,
Apart from the mainstream microblogging experience, this network provides many additional features like a calendar, emoji reactions, rich chatting, antennas, animated text posts, and more. The web client can be customized by choosing from various available widgets. Original interface language is Japanese, but translations for many other languages such as English, German, Korean and more are available.
features
- polls
- emoji reactions
- lists
- calendar
- trends
- recommended users
- tips for newcomers
- server information
- animated markdown
- rich chatting
join the network
Choose a server with open registrations and create an account:
Choose a mobile application from the available ones:
contributing
If you'd like to help the Misskey network grow, you can contribute in different ways.
- Donate to development team or the administrator of your server (if you have the means to do that).
- Set up your own instance, to make federation stronger and healthier, with many small servers.
- Spread the word. Invite your friends. Explain why it's important.
- Contribute with code. Send a pull request. Resolve an issue. Take a bounty.
- Help translating. Design promo materials. Print and distribute stickers.
Thank you. See you in Misskey.
Friendica Friendica
Personal network with no central authority or ownership. Keep in contact with people you care about
Lemmy Lemmy
Follow communities anywhere in the world
Mastodon Mastodon
Social networking back in your hands. Find your perfect community. Take control of your content
PeerTube PeerTube
Decentralized video hosting. Take back the control of your videos
Pleroma Pleroma
Federated microblogging, light as a feather
Funkwhale Funkwhale
A social platform to enjoy and share music
Hubzilla Hubzilla
Feature-rich social platform. Create channels with a decentralized nomadic identity
Misskey Misskey
Sophisticated microblogging with personality
Pixelfed Pixelfed
Federated social image sharing for everyone
diaspora diaspora
Online world where you are in control. Own your data. Choose your audience. Be who you want to be
Hello, traveller!
Leave the familiar Web behind, and dive into the unique part of the Internet.
This is the world of independence and diversity.
A universe that you shape, refine and expand.
PeerTube
take back the control of your videos
19.08.24overview
category
federated networktype
video streamingcreated
2015official page
joinpeertube.org/enlicense
AGPL-3.0source code
repositorywritten in
TypeScriptprotocols
wiki
resourcesfor techies
tutorials
population ~ 96 762 accounts
active users ~ 10 007people
servers > 530 instances
world
mascot
- cuttlefish Papa Sepia,
dwellers
peertubersconnects
- Friendica,
- Mastodon,
- Pleroma,
Unlike centralized video platforms, PeerTube considers each user as a person, and not as a product to track and sell advertisements. PeerTube's goal is to create a network of small interconnected video hosting providers. Users are free to choose the hoster of their videos according to terms of service and moderation policy. There are no recommendation algorithms and no need to give away extended copyright to your work. PeerTube video broadcasting is peer-to-peer (through WebRTC): when other people watch a PeerTube video at the same time as you, as long as your tab remains open, your browser shares bits of that video and you participate in a healthier use of the Internet. Videos hosted on PeerTube can be viewed directly from Mastodon and (soon) other Fediverse networks.
early adopters
join the network
Choose a server with open registrations and create an account:
Choose a mobile application from the available ones:
additional reading
contributing
If you'd like to help the PeerTube network grow, you can contribute in different ways.
- Donate to development team or the administrator of your server (if you have the means to do that).
- Set up your own instance, to make federation stronger and healthier, with many small servers.
- Spread the word. Invite your friends. Explain why it's important.
- Contribute with code. Send a pull request. Resolve an issue. Take a bounty.
- Help translating. Design promo materials. Print and distribute stickers.
Thank you. See you in PeerTube.
PixelFed
federated image sharing platform
19.08.24overview
category
social networktype
image sharingcreated
2018official page
pixelfed.orglicense
AGPL-3.0source code
repositorywritten in
PHPprotocols
for techies
population ~ 244 523 accounts
active users ~ 63 748people
servers > 475 instances
world
mascot
- red panda Fred,
connects
- Friendica,
- Mastodon,
- Misskey,
- Pleroma,
Pixelfed is an image sharing platform with modern user interface.
features
- disabling comments
- hiding followers
- spoiler warnings
- collections
- video loops
- stories
- EXIF/metadata editor
- following hashtags
- two-factor authentication (TOTP)
join the network
Choose a server with open registrations and create an account:
Choose a mobile application from the available ones:
contributing
If you'd like to help the PixelFed network grow, you can contribute in different ways.
- Donate to development team or the administrator of your server (if you have the means to do that).
- Set up your own instance, to make federation stronger and healthier, with many small servers.
- Spread the word. Invite your friends. Explain why it's important.
- Contribute with code. Send a pull request. Resolve an issue. Take a bounty.
- Help translating. Design promo materials. Print and distribute stickers.
Thank you. See you in PixelFed.
Pleroma
light as a feather
19.08.24overview
category
social networktype
microbloggingcreated
2017official page
pleroma.sociallicense
AGPL-3.0source code
repositorywritten in
Elixirprotocols
population ~ 120 156 accounts
active users ~ 21 391people
servers > 890 instances
world
mascot
Fox Tan,
communities
connects
- Friendica,
- GNU Social,
- Hubzilla,
- Mastodon,
- microblog.pub,
- Misskey,
- PeerTube,
- Pixelfed,
- Plume,
- WriteFreely,
Pleroma microblogging platform is appreciated by the community for its low resource consumption. If you have a Raspberry Pi or similar single-board computer you can use it as Pleroma server for family and friends.
features
- polls
- live chat
- markdown support
- advanced custom themes
- custom emojis
- filtering out unwanted content by keywords
join the network
Choose a server with open registrations and create an account:
Choose a mobile application from the available ones:
additional reading
contributing
If you'd like to help the Pleroma network grow, you can contribute in different ways.
- Donate to the administrator of your server (if you have the means to do that).
- Set up your own instance, to make federation stronger and healthier, with many small servers.
- Spread the word. Invite your friends. Explain why it's important.
- Contribute with code. Send a pull request. Resolve an issue. Take a bounty.
- Help translating. Design promo materials. Print and distribute stickers.
Thank you. See you in Pleroma.
Themed servers
19.08.24Unsure where to register to join Fediverse? Choose a website from this curated list. It includes Mastodon, Glitch-soc and Hometown (Mastodon forks), Pleroma and Akkoma (Pleroma fork), Friendica, Misskey and Firefish (Misskey fork), and Hubzilla servers. Websites are not restricted to their theme. They help people with common interests find their community.
Information about adding a server can be found here.
- lugnasad.eu - for French speaking science lovers (Friendica)
- oulipo.social - a lipogrammatic server (Mastodon)
- archaeo.social - for archaeologists, historians and lovers of all things ancient (Mastodon)
- zirk.us - for readers, writers, thinkers, artists, academics, enthusiasts in arts and humanities (Mastodon)
- tusk.schoollibraries.net - helping educators improve the School Libraries Resource Network (Mastodon)
- mastodon.oeru.org - for educators and learners involved in the OERu (Mastodon)
- akademienl.social - for anyone working in or with a general interest in Dutch academia (Mastodon)
- mastodon.education - for everyone who works for and with education (Mastodon)
- sotl.social - talk about the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Mastodon)
- koreadon.com - for K-POP music fans (Mastodon)
- feedbeat.me - dedicated to culture and events such as music, poetry, comedy (German) (Mastodon)
- piano.masto.host - dedicated to piano music, in English/Japanese (Mastodon)
- metalverse.social - from Metalheads for everybody (Mastodon)
- drumstodon.net - a place for drummers, musicians and music lovers in general (Mastodon)
- musician.social - for musicians who create, play, or love jazz, rock, pop, indie, classical and all other types of music (Mastodon)
- rollenspiel.social - (German) roleplay, Pen & Paper, tabletop, TCG, for all gamers (Mastodon)
- radiosocial.de - for German radio amateurs (Mastodon)
- hamradio.tel - ham radio community (Mastodon)
- pl.nudie.social - for naturists, nudists, clothes-free living (Akkoma)
- prf.me - for perfume, fragrance and scent lovers (Mastodon)
- makerspace.social - space for makers (CNC, woodworking, microcontrollers, etc) (Mastodon)
- 3dp.chat - 3D printing (Mastodon)
- gametoots.de - for gamers and streamers (Mastodon)
- mastodon.triggerphra.se - for the hypnosis community; 18+, queer, and getting very sleepy (Mastodon)
- podvibes.co - for audio fiction creators and fans (audio drama, fiction podcasts, audiobooks, etc.) (Mastodon) (Cloudflared)
- rail.chat - discussions about long-distance, passenger and freight rail networks for economic, environmental and equity benefits (Mastodon)
- aircrew.rocks - for pilots, flight attendants, and flight enthusiasts (Mastodon)
- bahn.social - for rail enthusiasts, in German (Mastodon)
- toot.pizza - NYC-leaning urbanism and transit instance (Mastodon)
- towns.gay - for radical queers, who believe that cities are for us too (Mastodon)
- vkl.world - Belarusian language (Mastodon)
- mastodon.fedi.bzh - Breton and Gallo speakers (Mastodon)
- fairy.id - Chinese language (Mastodon)
- gomastodon.cz - Czech users (Mastodon)
- norrebro.space - Danish speakers (Mastodon)
- e.fo - Faroese language (Mastodon)
- mastodo.fi - Finnish language (Mastodon)
- librosphere.fr - French speakers (Pleroma)
- kanoa.de - German language (Mastodon)
- electricrequiem.com - Greek language (Firefish) (Google reCAPTCHA)
- loðfíll.is - Icelandic speakers (Mastodon)
- best-friends.chat - Japanese speakers (Mastodon)
- occitania.social - Occitan culture and language (Mastodon)
- pol.social - Polish speakers (Mastodon)
- wspanialy.eu - Polish speakers (Mastodon)
- mk.phreedom.club - Russian users (Misskey)
- samenet.social - Sámi language (Mastodon)
- mastodon.sk - Slovakian speakers (Mastodon)
- mastodon.in.th - Thai speakers (Mastodon)
- toki.social - Toki Pona speakers (Mastodon)
- jam.xwx.moe - Esperanto speakers (Pleroma)
- neovibe.app - for fans of music, movies, gaming and all forms of entertainment, LGBTQ+ friendly and Black-run (Mastodon)
- qdon.space - a queer-friendly Korean-language instance - 퀴어 친화적인 마스토돈 인스턴스입니다 (Mastodon)
- bark.lgbt - for critters that like to bark, LGBTQ+ run and friendly, active moderation (Mastodon)
- bne.social - Brisbane (Mastodon)
- krems.social - Krems (Mastodon)
- fedi.at - Austria (Mastodon)
- sbg-social.at - Salzburg (Mastodon)
- aut.social - Austria (Mastodon)
- wokka.be - Belgium
- mastodon-belgium.be - Belgium (Mastodon)
- witter.cz - Czech Republic (Mastodon)
- norrebro.space - Denmark (Mastodon)
- mastodo.fi - Finland (Mastodon)
- mastodon.bayern - Bavaria (Mastodon)
- ruhrpott.social - Ruhr area (Mastodon)
- fulda.social - Fulda (Mastodon)
- brandenburg.social - Brandenburg (Mastodon)
- berlin.social - Berlin (Mastodon)
- osna.social - Osnabrück (Mastodon)
- fem.social - Ilmenau (Mastodon)
- friendica.a-zwenkau.de - Zwenkau (Friendica)
- harz.social - Harz area (Mastodon)
- rheinneckar.social - Rhein-Neckar area (Mastodon)
- moessingen.social - Mössingen area (Mastodon)
- cas.social - Castrop-Rauxel (Mastodon)
- im.allmendenetz.de - Cologne, Germany (Hubzilla)
- toot.berlin - Berlin (Mastodon)
- kowelenz.social - Koblenz (Akkoma)
- foxyhole.io - Italy (Firefish) (hCaptcha)
- mastodon.mg - Madagascar (Mastodon)
- mastodon.holeyfox.co - Nigeria (Mastodon)
- nwb.social - Nieuw West-Brabant (Mastodon)
- malaga.social - Malaga (Mastodon)
- swiss.social - Switzerland (Mastodon)
- mastodon.free-solutions.org - Switzerland (Mastodon)
- mastodon.tn - Tunisia (Mastodon)
- soc.ua-fediland.de - Ukraine (Mastodon)
- lviv.social - Lviv (Mastodon)
- bath.social - Bath (Mastodon)
- socialclub.nyc - New York (Mastodon)
- social.tulsa.ok.us - Tulsa, Northeast Oklahoma (Mastodon)
- cityofchicago.live - Chicago, Illinois (Mastodon)
- gardenstate.social - New Jersey (Mastodon)
- theatl.social - Atlanta, Georgia (Mastodon) (Cloudflared)
- techlover.eu - talk about new technologies like development, digital art or science (Mastodon)
- layer8.space - talk about Linux, anime, music, software and more (Mastodon)
- devschile.social - for Spanish-language techies of Chile (Mastodon)
- k8s.social - for kubernetes, container and cloud native enthusiasts (Mastodon)
- gnulinux.social - community dedicated to Free Software enthusiasts and supporters
- technodon.org - general technology discussion (Mastodon) (Cloudflared)
- toot.works - for folks who make things with bits, wires, wood, and more (Mastodon)
- dotnet.social - .NET (Mastodon)
- jvm.social - JVM technologies related server (Mastodon)
- greenhill.zone - multilingual instance for fans of Sonic the Hedgehog (Mastodon)
- toot.cat - instance for cats, the people who love them, and kindness in general (Mastodon)
- floe.earth - talk about climate, society, but also pleasant things in life (Mastodon)
- sauropods.win - for sauropod appreciators (Mastodon)
- veganism.social - for vegans and animal rights activists (Mastodon)
- fedisabled.social - for all disabled people (Mastodon)
- medibubble.org - for medical professionals and everyone else, in German (Mastodon)
- bungle.online - fandom instance, post media, fan art and fanfiction (Misskey)
- mastodol.jp - talk about idols in Japanese (Mastodon)
- elizur.me - for German-speaking Christians (Mastodon)
- babka.social - for Jews and Jewish allies (Mastodon)
- 1689.social - for Reformed Baptists worldwide (Mastodon)
- elonsucks.org - English-speaking server open to anyone, especially those who are anti-capitalist, pro-democracy and strive to bridge inequality (Mastodon) (Cloudflared)
- venera.social - friendly humans are welcome (Friendica)
- misskey.de - hosted in Helsinki (Misskey)
- social.sp-codes.de - main language is German (Mastodon)
- social.yesterweb.org - hosted in the USA, mainly in English (Mastodon)
- wetdry.world - talk about tech, gaming, bad jokes (Mastodon)
- masto.bike - riding a bike is a plus, French speaking (Mastodon)
- blueplanet.social - for people interested in making this planet a better place, primarily German language
- convo.casa - general for everyone (Mastodon)
- en.osm.town - for the OpenStreetMap Community (Mastodon)
- swiss-chaos.social - Chaos Computer Club Switzerland (Mastodon)
- mastodon.mit.edu - for the MIT community (Mastodon)
- mastodon.librelabucm.org - for Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) people and free/libre software talk in Spanish (Mastodon)
- mastodon.acc.sunet.se - by Academic Computer Club at Umeå University, Sweden (Mastodon)
- akademienl.social - for anyone working in, affiliated with, or with a general interest in Dutch academia (Mastodon)
- social.sunet.se - by the Swedish Research Council for anyone belonging to a Swedish university (Mastodon)
- social.edu.nl - by SURF, a cooperative of Dutch universities (Mastodon)
- social.mpdl.mpg.de - by the Max Planck Digital Library at MPG (Mastodon)
- wisskomm.social - by idw, for entities and groups in German academia (Mastodon)
- social.up.edu.ph - by the University of the Philippines (Hometown)
- 4bear.com - for the LGBT+ Bear Community (Mastodon)
- indiepocalypse.social - for independent creators of all sorts (Mastodon)
- is.nota.live - queer-run instance (Mastodon)
- lgbtqia.space - for all LGBTQIA people who want a caring and safe environment (Mastodon)
- meemu.org - a queer-friendly instance (Mastodon)
- pipou.academy - a French-language queer instance - une instance queer, qui vise à être aussi confortable et safe que possible (Mastodon)
- poweredbygay.social - for those LGBTQIA+ (and Allies) that are into fun adventurous things, like playing/watching sports, hiking, camping (Mastodon)
- retro.pizza - a queer-run poly-fandom nerd culture instance (Mastodon)
- connectop.us - a respectful, diverse, inclusive community standing up for all marginalized gropus (Mastodon)
- blackqueer.life - for Black queer folks (Mastodon glitch)
- wavebird.party - queer- and disabled-run instance for retrocomputing, retro gaming and indie web enthusiasts (Mastodon Glitch)
- chitter.xyz - for a friendly, inclusive, and incredibly soft community (Mastodon)
- furry.engineer - echies and engineers of all types within the furry fandom, LGBTQ+ friendly (Mastodon)
- pawb.fun - for the furry fandom, LGBTQ+ friendly safe space (Mastodon)
- pounced-on.me - a generalistic furry mastodon instance (Mastodon glitch)
- thicc.horse - for body positivity, LGBTQIA+, Furry, horny on main (Mastodon)
- pony.social - for nerds, LGBTQ+ or just people looking for a comfy place (Mastodon)
- derg.social - Swiss furry community (Mastodon) (Cloudflared)
- augsburg.social - Augsburg, Germany (Mastodon)
- wue.social - Würzburg (and the neighbourhood), Germany (Mastodon)
- bonn.social - Bonn, Germany (Mastodon)
- krefeld.life - Krefeld, Germany (Mastodon)
- darmstadt.social - Darmstadt, Germany (Mastodon)
- snabelen.no - Norway (Mastodon)
- tukkers.online - Twente region, Netherlands (Mastodon)
- mastodon.opencloud.lu - Luxembourg (private and public organisations) (Mastodon)
- mastodon.uy - Uruguay (Mastodon)
- chilemasto.casa - Chile (Mastodon)
- mastodos.com - Kyoto, Japan (Mastodon)
- mograph.social - for motion design community, VFX / 3D artists, animators, illustrators (Mastodon)
- iztasocial.site - discussions about psychology for professors of SUAyED Psicología university of Mexico (Mastodon)
- openbiblio.social - German libraries and information facilities (Mastodon)
- ausglam.space - Australian galleries, libraries, archives, museums and records people (Mastodon)
- linernotes.club - for discussing music recordings (Mastodon)
- bostonmusic.online - digital space serving the Boston music scene (Mastodon)
- mastodon.radio - for Amateur (Ham) Radio community (Mastodon)
- mastodontti.fi - Finnish, public toots should be in Finnish (Mastodon)
- floss.social - for people who support or build Free Libre Open Source Software (Mastodon)
- linuxrocks.online - dedicated to Linux and technologies (Mastodon)
- digipres.club - conversations about digital preservation (Mastodon)
- phpc.social - PHP community
- dads.cool - anyone with a kid can be a dad (Mastodon)
- colorid.es- Spanish LGBTQIA+ / queer instance primarily for Portuguese speakers (Mastodon)
- fandom.ink - for fans and fandoms of all types (Mastodon)
- tooting.ch - generic instance hosted by the FairSocialNet association (Mastodon)
- digitalcourage.social - by DigitalCourage (Mastodon)
- libretooth.gr - by LibreOps, who contribute to (re-)decentralizing the net (Mastodon)
- mastodon.cc - for art (Mastodon)
- theres.life - for Christians (Mastodon)
- fikaverse.club - Swedish and other Scandinavian languages (Mastodon)
- feuerwehr.social - for all firefighters in German-speaking countries (Mastodon)
- mastodon.gougere.fr - Auxerre, France (Mastodon)
- stereodon.social - self-managed social network devoted to underground music (Italian, English languages) (Mastodon)
- solarpunk.moe - for solarpunk nerds (Mastodon)
- leftist.network - for those with Leftist politics (Mastodon)
- PCGamer.social - by the PC gamer, for the PC gamer (Mastodon)
- poliverso.org - dedicated to politics and digital rights (Italian speaking) (Friendica)
- ruby.social - for people interested in Ruby, Rails and related topics (Mastodon)
- mastodontti.fi - for Finnish speakers (Mastodon)
- snabelen.no - for Norwegian speakers (Mastodon)
- mastodon.ml - Russia (Mastodon)
- cmdr.social - dedicated to Elite: Dangerous and space exploration (Mastodon)
- handmade.social - for all handmade artisans and their Etsy shops
- sciencemastodon.com - for science journalists and scientists
- recht.social - focus on legal topics (Mastodon)
- medic.cafe - for employees in the medical field (Mastodon)
- graz.social - Graz, Austria (Mastodon)
- sciences.social - for social scientists (Mastodon)
- indiepocalypse.social - for independent creators of all sorts (Mastodon)
- brettspiel.space - for boardgame players (Mastodon)
- podcasts.social - for podcasters (Mastodon)
- beo.social - Bernese Oberland, Switzerland
- greennuclear.online - nuclear community (Mastodon)
- indiehackers.social - for all indie hackers (Mastodon)
- musicians.today - for musicians of all levels, instruments, regions, languages, and genres (Mastodon)
- kalmar.social - Kalmar region, Sweden (Mastodon)
- blasmusik.social - specially, but not only for brass musicians, Germany (Mastodon)
- social.seattle.wa.us - Seattle (Mastodon)
- social.bau-ha.us - part of CCC family, hosted in Weimar (Mastodon)
- poliversity.it - Italian instance dedicated to the world of science and journalism (Mastodon)
- astrodon.social - for anyone interested in astronomy, astrophysics, astrophotography (Mastodon)
- onlycosplays.social - safe place for cosplayers and their communities (Mastodon)
- mastodon.eus - for Euskera/Basque speakers (Mastodon)
- xarxa.cloud - for Catalan and Spanish speakers (Mastodon)
- neurodifferent.me - a friendly space for neurodifferent folks (Mastodon)
- machteburch.social - Magdeburg (Mastodon)
- frankfurt.social - Frankfurt (Mastodon)
- nahe.social - Nahe region (Mastodon)
- oslo.town - Oslo (Mastodon)
- ecoevo.social - for the biological ecology and evolution community (Mastodon)
- veterinary.education - veterinary medicine (Mastodon)
- bardown.space - for hockey fans and players (Hometown)
- idlethumbs.social - hosted in California (Mastodon)
- okla.social - for those from or interested in Oklahoma (Mastodon)
- hoosier.social - for residents of Indiana (Mastodon)
- dz.social - Algeria (Mastodon)
- astronomy.city - for astronomy and astronomy-adjacent users (Mastodon)
- paktodon.asia - a Pakistani instance for the Global South (Mastodon)
- mastodon.africa - South Africa (Mastodon)
- mapstodon.space - an instance dedicated to cartography & geospatial (Mastodon)
💡 Sciences
🎨 Humanities
🎓 Education
🎵 Music
🔭 Interests and hobbies
🚄 Travel, Transport and Infrastructure
🎏 Language specific
🛡 Safer spaces
Instances run by and for people belonging to minorities and moderated more strictly than usual (also check out Fedi.Garden for curated list of well-moderated instances)
⛺ Regional
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
Germany
Italy
Madagascar
Nigeria
Netherlands
Spain
Switzerland
Tunisia
Ukraine
UK
USA
🐧 For techies
💻 Programming
🎬 Book / Game / Show theme
🐰 Environmentalism
⚕ Healthcare
👽 Fandoms
🙏 Religion
🔴 Political and social views
🌏 Notable generalistic
// small-to-medium sized instances that will be happy to have new users
🐚 Run by tech-savvy organizations
Instances which declare to be affiliated with an incorporate non-profit (usually an association or cooperative) and to follow its policies
🎉 Notable mention
// are open to particular audience, i.e., to students of university
🎉 Various (registration by application)
Minorities (registration by application)
Instances focused on providing a safe space for minorities such as LGBTQ+ people and require approval for registration
Furry (registration by application)
Instances which are focused on providing a safe space for furry interests and require approval for registration.
Other
// these servers may be removed in future automated updates due to signups by application
🌟 Other research links
- Pirate Parties in Fediverse
- Mastodon server distribution - research by @Leah
Decorating a Fediverse tree (updated)
24.12.20 Author(s): @lostinlight ,Fediverse.Party and Fediverse family present 🎄
(for children aged 3 to 103)
Missing the joy of winter holidays? In search of small DIY tasks to relax and put you in the right mood? Not sure how to tear your kids away from a TV screen? We’ve got you covered! 👍
Let’s create a proper Fediverse atmosphere by making paper toys together!
This wonderful idea first came to @Poudingue when they posted a template of an adorable paper Mastodon.
Mastodon by @Poudingue, image by the author of the toy
Let’s start with Mastodon. Download the template here.
You’ll need:
- scissors, cutter
- glue
- printer
- optionally, a pencil (or anything sharp to make wholes) and thread (if you wish to put your toys on an Xmas tree)
- optionally, some working surface where you can cut without being afraid to skretch the table
- a bit of patience
If your printer is black-and-white, let it not stop you. Paper toys look fine even without colour!
Do not try to make a perfect toy. We’re having fun! It doesn’t matter if you cut it wrong by half a millimeter! Also, you can always correct it with scissors by trimming all the small parts before glueing them together, or even after the toy is assembled.
The general rules are: cut along solid lines, fold along dashed lines. It’s useful to fold and unfold all the dashed lines before starting to glue; makes it easier to work with the template.
Once you’re finished with Mastodon, let’s make red panda Fred, Pixelfed’s mascot. Here’s the template. It’s an easy paper toy - no small details. Just glue all the white parts to the insides of nearby facets, and we’re done!
Next on our list is PeerTube’s mascot - grab the template for cuttlefish Papa Sepia: page 1, page 2.
This one may take a bit more time, with all its legs! If you wish to hang the toy somewhere, remember to make two wholes and put a thread through them, before you start glueing the top of the toy to its bottom.
And one more toy for the final touch. Let it be Friendica’s Flaxy O’Hare. Template.
The only tricky part here is glueing the top part to the body accurately. First apply glue to the left (or right) white part of the top piece and insert it into the slit at the body side. Do the same for the other side. Now it’s easier to glue the center white parts to the body.
Tada! The toys are ready.
Now we can decorate our Fedi tree.
But hey, you can do lots of other things with such toys. Don’t know how to interest your friends and colleagues in federated social networks? Gift them one of these cute mascots. You can write the link to your profile at the back. Suggest your children or friends to make these toys together - they will appreciate a fun “introduction” into Fediverse world! You can decorate your makerspaces and windowsills with Fedi mascots. Finally, you can present them to strangers as a nice promotional material. You could also print stickers for this purpose - but toys will leave no one indifferent, and if you make them bigger in size, they’ll certainly attract attention.
We’ve made only four toys, yet there’re many other projects in federated universe. Have you made any templates for other Fediverse projects? Please, submit them here or send images in federated networks, and the post will be updated with your contributions.
Wish to share the photos of your own Fediverse tree and Fedi toys? Post them in federated networks under the hashtag #PaperFedi2021. 🙂
Happy holidays to all fedizens!
diaspora* calling coders
25.03.18 Author(s): @lostinlight ,It’s been wonderful to see many new members joining diaspora community over the past few days.
You may have noticed that diaspora* is missing some features.
As an open-source Free Software project, diaspora* is created by its community. Now that you’re part of this community, we’d love you to help us improve it for everyone.
Read the official call for help here.
Fedicrypt - what would it take? (links updated)
05.06.18 Author(s): @lostinlight ,Fediverse social networks hugely benefit from federated architecture. However, like centralized platforms, they store all the data “in the cloud”. Fediverse trust model implies trust in one’s server administrator and hosting provider. Latest research by Leah shows that administrators tend to choose large, popular providers. And judging by network statistics, users tend to flock to large Fediverse instances.
Hypolite Petovan, Friendica developer, wrote a summary on what it would take to make private data in Fediverse networks truely private. He uses Friendica network as a reference, but this applies to all Fediverse networks that have limited view messages.
If you consider this topic important, join the discussion.
We celebrated Fediverse’s 14th birthday with a little quiz about its history and key projects. A few of you asked us to publish the correct answers. Here we go!
There were three sets of questions, each having different number of answers. Furthermore, each attempt at the quiz presented you with new questions. To achieve that, we had three difficulty levels (easy, medium, hard), and we picked four questions from each. Shuffling them, we got a unique quiz every time. We hope it was fun :) Now let’s get to the answers.
Easy questions
Which one is a video hosting platform? PeerTube.
Which one is an image sharing platform? Pixelfed.
Which one is a music sharing platform? Funkwhale.
Which one is a platform for events and meetups? Mobilizon (although we shouldn’t forget Gancio either).
Which project has a small Arctic rodent as a mascot? Lemmy. We spent so-o-o much time trying to describe mascots in a way that is not a dead give-away.
Which project has a large marine mammal as a mascot? Funkwhale. In fact, it has 3 whale mascots - blue Betty, green Harriet and pink Wanda! All drawm by a community member Robin.
Which project has a marine mollusk as a mascot? PeerTube. The cuttlefish named Papa Sepia was created by David Revoy.
Whose mascot looks like a cute bear and feeds on bamboo? Pixelfed. You can find the original assets of red panda Fred here.
Which project has a small swift mammal with elongated ears as a mascot? Friendica. The community named the mascot Flaxy O’Hare, it was drawn by lostinlight.
Whose mascot animal is native to Australia and feeds on eucalyptus? Hubzilla. Its mascot is red koala. The initial creator of Hubzilla lives in Australia.
Which project has a small nocturnal fox as a mascot? Mobilizon. Rose the fennec was designed by David Revoy.
Which project has a flowering plant as a mascot? diaspora*. The word “diaspora” refers to the dispersal of seeds (or people) over a wide area and the asterisk in the name represents a fluffy dandelion seed.
Which project does not directly contribute to Fediverse’s development? Twitter BlueSky.
Which project directly contributes to Fediverse’s development and success? Glitch-Soc – a popular fork of Mastodon with extra features.
Who was among the editors of ActivityPub specification? Christine Lemmer-Webber, but don’t forget the other editors too: Jessica Tallon, Erin Shepherd, Amy Guy, and Evan Prodromou. Writing standards is hard; these folks deserve a medal!
Somewhat difficult questions
Which project was named after a music band? Mastodon.🤘 Actually, depending on the sources, the project may or may not be named after the band, but Eugen Rochko, the creator of Mastodon network, is definitely a fan of the band. By the way, one other Fedi project has musical roots too: Lemmy is the name of a lead singer of Motörhead.
Which project first allowed users to add cat ears to their avatars? Misskey. Several people told us that some Pleroma servers used to have this feature even before Misskey, but as we couldn’t find it in Pleroma’s code repository, the answer is still technically correct.
What protocol is most widely adopted in Fediverse? ActivityPub.
How many user accounts are there in Fediverse? 2-7 million. In related news, the-federation.info is under development again. Give a helping hand if you are into frontend webdev and/or Python!
Who published the identi.ca post that marks the beginning of Fediverse? Evan Prodromou.
Which one is not a fork of Mastodon? Pleroma. This may seem an idiotic question, but over the years we’ve seen many newcomers whose acquaintance with Fediverse starts and ends with Mastodon. They come across popular Mastodon forks and assume that all Fedi microblogging platforms are some variant of modified Mastodon. This question was a reminder that Pleroma, like many other microblogging projects, has a different, independent codebase and history.
Which one started as a fork of Pleroma? In our quiz, the correct answer is Mobilizon, but it was pointed out to us that it wasn’t a full-blown fork — Mobilizon just borrowed some of the code. We couldn’t come up with a better phrasing for the question though, so it is what it is.
What is the unofficial Fediverse mascot suggested by community members? Phoenix - the symbol of rebirth, renewal, progress and eternity. A legendary bird that rises from the ashes, just like federated networks fall in popularity and rise again, better and stronger. Hopefully you noticed that the birds at the end of the quiz are phoenixes too!
Which one of these supports Gopher protocol? Pleroma.
What’s the name of a popular Android app for Funkwhale? Otter.
What’s the name of a multi-platform client for Lemmy? Lemmur.
Which two projects are developed by Framasoft? Mobilizon and PeerTube.
Which Linux distribution donated €10k in 2020 to fund live-streaming in PeerTube? Debian.
Hard questions
Which project wasn’t funded by a grant from NGI Zero (NLNet Foundation)? WriteFreely. That’s right, NLNet funded the other five, and we could list even more! Working on infrastructure software isn’t very glamorous, so grants from NGI Zero really help move things forward.
Which project received a $70k grant from Samsung NEXT in 2019? Mastodon.
In what city did the ActivityPub community conference happen in 2019? Prague.
Which project is not written in Go? Lemmy 🦀
Which project is written in Python? Bookwyrm 🐍
Which project is written in Elixir? Mobilizon 💧
When was ActivityPub standardized? 2018. Can you believe it’s been four years already?
How was identi.ca software called at first? Laconica.
Initially, GNU Social was a set of plugins for… StatusNet.
What was the original name of the project now known as Hubzilla? Redmatrix.
What was the original name of the project now known as Friendica? Mistpark.
And there you have it — all the answers to all the questions in the quiz! We hope this was both fun and educational. See you in Fediverse!
Fediverse Birthday, 12 years and counting
18.05.20 Author(s): @lostinlight ,🎉 Happy 12th, Fediverse! 🎉
On this day, twelve years ago, Mr. Evan Prodromou published his first post on Identi.ca. Although that project now belongs to history, Fediverse lives on and by year 2020 it has become an incredibly creative, colourful and cozy place, with the potential to attract even more good people.
However, Fediverse is still a small world. It doesn’t matter whether you’re connected to thousands of strangers or are a champion of Fedi blocking. We’re still neighbours.
“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket!” Credits: Fediverse logo authors: @drq and @nestort; mascot Fe-nix - idea suggested by @drq
Join the effort to spread the word about federated social networks, celebrating the dozen years of hard work by many different people: programmers, protocol architects, designers, system administrators, translators, alpha testers, moderators, community managers, and, of course, fedizens - the priceless users of our (for now) alternative social universe.
Have you learned something new in Fediverse? Have you met your IRL friends in it? Found a job? Lost a nerve? Spawned new life? Tracked down and fixed bugs? Had fun?
Please, write a post with the hashtags #Fediverse12, #HappyFedi2U and share your memories and memoirs! If you still have accounts in mainstream social media, help making these hashtags visible and invite your friends and followers to our new world of federated communication.
You can find some promotional materials in these folders. Use them freely and don’t forget to contribute any new materials you create.
🌟 See you in Fedi!
Happy 13th, Fediverse!
Last year Fediverse celebrated May 18th as an important, symbolic milestone to remember how it all began. Let’s make this a tradition and a day for friendly interactions, to boost the spirit of unity and vibrant culture!
Let’s reintroduce ourselves
Newcomers are usually advised to create an “introductions” post, telling a few words about themselves, allowing Fedi community to welcome them. Why not have #reintroductions as well, to help both newcomers and oldHeres get to know each other? Please, make a post in Fedi with this hashtag; you can also use festive hashtags of the day - #Fediverse13 and #HappyFedi2U.
Note: If you speak Catalan or Spanish, join the online meeting of fedizens dedicated to this special day (from 19h30 to 21h30 UTC+2).
Credits: promo image - by @titi, CC BY-SA
Planting the seeds
If you have accounts on mainstream social networks, we suggest to turn this day into a chaotic celebration of sci-fi and fantasy films, books and memes! Find images from the films you like, add any text or quote to it and share! There’s only one catch - it should include the word “Fediverse” somewhere. Again, we suggest adding the tag #Fediverse13 in the text of your post, so that other users on those platforms can find and reshare your posts. But if you think these tags may become the reason of shadow bans (which might happen on networks that have an allergy to competition), never mind. The mysterious word “Fediverse” on your images should be enough to tickle the curiosity of your readers, and it’s harder to shadow ban for text-on-image. If the plan works, people will go searching for this magic word, find our federating corner of the Internet and, hopefully, join to stay!
PS. In case you resolutely prefer genres other than fantasy / sci-fi - the more the better, let it be any you like! PPS. If our community manages to come up with nice and creative images, we may feature some of them on our Crystal Ball page, linking back to Fedi accounts of respective image authors. Of course, we shall search you out first and ask for a permission.
Credits: examples created by @humanetech
Social networking reimagined
As more people discover federated networks, organizations slowly begin to acknowledge the existence of our alternative communication channels too and cautiously come to Fediverse to test the waters. Even the European Commission is interested and requested a 3-part ActivityPub for Administrations event. Its goals were to raise the awareness about various Fediverse projects and encourage representatives to create their own accounts or servers, thus establishing a presence in the federating social web.
For all of us this means opportunity. A true reimagination of social networking, creating spaces where people are united in diversity. A place free of Big Tech dominance, where beautiful culture thrives. It’s hard to give up old ways and try out something new, especially after investing so much time into traditional social media. Each platform a separate channel to maintain. On the Fediverse, no more of that! Imagine, if you could post only to Instagram, and people on Facebook, Twitter an other networks could see your posts. Integrated, and reachable from 1 account to interact with. We can do that in Fediverse where various networks are interconnected!
Today is the day!
If you are an organization with an official Fedi account and you also have a presence on big corporate platforms, please, help spread the word about federated networks far and wide! Remind your readers on mainstream media that you can also be followed in Fediverse. Tell the visitors of walled gardens that there are open gardens, wild and blooming, awaiting new waves of pioneers! If you wish to be part of Fedi campaign, please, use hashtags #Fediverse13 or #FediOpenGarden
“Down with giants, up with open, self-governed communities!” Credits: Fediverse mascot characters - by their respective creators; illustration by @lostinlight, CC-BY, source
You can find some promotional materials in these folders. Use them freely and don’t forget to contribute any new materials you create.
🌟 See you in Fedi!
Happy 14th Birthday, Fedi! Teenage years are turbulent and always full of experiments. May your current popularity and success double in the nearest future!
Fediverse grew quite a bit over the last year. To all the new users - welcome! And to all the fedizens who’ve been with us for all these years - thank you!
To add a bit of playfulness to this day, we prepared a 🌟fun little quiz🌟 for you. The source code will be revealed in a few days; we don’t want to make it too easy to figure out the answers. :) Please share your scores, and add #FediQuiz, #Fediverse14 or #HappyFedi2U hashtags for visibility.
Cheers, Fediverse.party team
Fediverse glossary
16.11.18 Author(s): @lostinlight ,Peter Gossner wrote an extensive Fediverse tech glossary. Here’s the Dedication excerpt:
"For Artists and Hackers, Academics, and Admins.
+ For Humans who Grok stuff. Those self taught, and persistent.
+ For those who build for Us: Tools to own and run.
+ For People in Community: Who will not be a Commodity,
+ For Our Internet, And all who sail on her.
+ Useful may it be. Save time may it much".
+This is the right time to notice that fediverse.party is looking for authors! Anyone who would like to write about federated social platforms in a simple, user-friendly way, please, see the issue for details. One-time contributions, series of posts, a best-seller book about Fediverse… You name it. Fediverse Chronicles are waiting for you!
Fediverse in 2019
05.01.20 Author(s): @lostinlight ,Happy 2020, fedizens!
Storm of applause 👏 for all long-time Fediverse supporters, and a warm welcome 👍 to every new user who found Fediverse in 2019.
Here’s what happened to our small corner of the Internet in the past year.
Fediverse in numbers
In 2019 the reachable Fediverse grew from 3.986 instances to 5.027 - that’s roughly 🎉 1.000 new servers online.
The number of registered accounts increased from 2.500.000 users to roughly 4.300.000 - about 🎉 1.800.000 newcomers explored Fediverse networks!
Five networks growing most rapidly in online server numbers in 2019 were:
Three other Fediverse platforms that expanded significantly in 2019:
• Misskey 🎉 +37 servers
• Plume 🎉 +23 servers
• Funkwhale 🎉 +15 servers
Please, note: these numbers are an approximation based on statistics voluntarily provided by server administrators. Highly volatile (servers go offline / online every day), the numbers reflect only part of Fediverse at a given period of time (today!).
Fediverse in projects
At least 9 new networks expressed a wish to become part of Fediverse!
🌟 Mobilizon - a network to gather, organize, and mobilize
🌟 Epicyon - ActivityPub server written in Python, for low-powered hardware
🌟 Honk - Go ActivityPub server focused on minimal setup and support costs
🌟 Lemmy - a federated alternative to Reddit in Rust
🌟 Gancio - a shared agenda for local communities, supports ActivityPub
🌟 Guppe - project adds “groups” support: group-type actors forward posts to group members
🌟 Kanzaki - ActivityPub-speaking server in OCaml
🌟 Smithereen - VKontakte-like social network written in Java
🌟 MoonTreeProject - link aggregator, a work in progress
→ For a full list of Fediverse projects in development see Miscellaneous page.
Project forks:
• Hometown - a Mastodon fork that includes some unique features
• Dolphin - single user microblogging server, sister project to Misskey
• Groundpolis - microblogging network based on Misskey
Related new projects:
• ForgeFed: an upcoming federation protocol, built as an extension to ActivityPub, for interoperability between version control services
Fediverse 2019 timeline
✔ January: Mastodon receives a Samsung Stack Zero grant
✔ January: Friendica successfully adopts ActivityPub protocol
✔ February: Google writes code for Mastodon
✔ March: Pleroma has its first stable release
✔ March: Socialhome adds ActivityPub federation
✔ April: WriteFreely searches for new developers on a contract basis, becoming a Fediverse project that creates FOSS jobs
✔ May: Fediverse has a 🐣 Birthday, technically - 11 years and counting. Happy Birthday, Fedi!
✔ July: Hubzilla community announces a call for participation to standardize the Zot protocol used in Hubzilla software
✔ July: Pixelfed starts federating with other Fedi networks. A long awaited update
✔ August: ActivityPub conference in Prague - 💡 watch the videos
✔ October: Framasoft releases the first beta version of Mobilizon
✔ November: GNU Social tests federation over ActivityPub
✔ November: Pixelfed gets a grant from NLnet
✔ November: Indian users massively leave Twitter for Mastodon
✔ November: Well-known activist Aral Balkan speaks at the European Parliament about the future of Internet regulation and the role of Fediverse platforms - 💡 watch the video
✔ December: Funkwhale starts federating with Mastodon
✔ December: users from Scotland massively join Mastodon (popular hashtag: #TwitterExodusScotland)
✔ December: mass Spanish speakers migration from Twitter to Mastodon (popular hashtag: #YoMigroAMastodon)
Things to happen in 2020
• Fediverse Conference in Barcelona
• Spoiler from the future: millions of people discovering Fediverse networks and migrating from centralized silos. Be prepared!
Issues to be resolved in 2020
One of the main goals of federating software is decentralizing the web. That requires many Fediverse servers each having a small number of users, hosting data in physically decentralized manner. That’s the ideal, a perfect image.
But in real world most people register on large Fediverse servers with thousands of users: they’re popular, more stable and reliable, their friends are there. And server administrators tend to choose large, well-known hosting solutions: they’re cheaper, more stable and reliable. This leads to a situation where 80% of total users are all crowded on 10 large (“flagship”) instances, and 40% of all servers are hosted mainly by 5 companies.
Most used providers 2019:
The situation hasn’t changed much since 2018 Leah’s research on server distribution. Will something change in 2020?
Fediverse.party news:
The fediverse.party website changed its home! Our code can now be found on GitLab hosted by 👍 Feneas, a non-for-profit association registered in Finland and run by humans who care about federated web projects.
We invite all authors who would like to submit an article to fediverse.party. Are you developing a Fediverse project? Tell everyone about it! Do you write about complicated things in a simple, user-friendly language? This website’s main audience are newcomers to Fediverse who may have no technical background, they will appreciate your explanatory skills. Are you a researcher of Fediverse software ready to comment on its strengths and weaknesses? Please, share your expertize! Here’re the guidelines for submitting an article.
P/s Fediverse is 99% run by volunteers who spend their own money to keep the network going. If you enjoy being on Fediverse, please, consider sponsoring your own local server or donating to Fediverse project you most often use.
Fediverse in 2020
02.01.21 Author(s): @lostinlight ,Happy 2021, fedizens!
One more year in Fediverse passed. Let’s have a look at what we have achieved in 2020.
Fediverse in numbers
The number of servers grew from 5.027 last year to ~5.900 by the end of 2020. That’s about 900 new instances.
The number of registered users, on the other hand, has decreased and by the end of the year remains slightly above 4.000.000. This may be due to the fact that several large servers went down during the year, and because some administrators periodically remove long inactive accounts to free up space for newcomers.
Whatever the reason, we may rejoice that more small instances keep appearing. That’s what Fediverse is supposed to be doing – decentralizing!
Seven networks growing most rapidly in online server numbers in 2020 were:
• PeerTube 🎉 +320 servers
• Mastodon 🎉 +237 servers
• Pleroma 🎉 +224 servers
• WriteFreely 🎉 +74 servers
• Misskey 🎉 +58 servers
• Mobilizon 🎉 +45 servers
• Pixelfed 🎉 +40 servers
Note: these numbers are an approximation based on statistics voluntarily provided by server administrators. Servers go offline / online every hour, every day, so the numbers reflect only part of Fediverse at the time this article was published.
Credits: picture is based on an image from Pixabay.com
Fediverse in projects
At least 16 new projects joined Fediverse in 2020!
🌟 Bonfire – a plug & play federated social network based on CommonsPub
🌟 Bookwyrm – social reading and reviewing, a federated alternative to GoodReads
🌟 The Occasion Octopus – a federated network of Open Data for discovering interesting events
🌟 OLKi – linguistic corpora exchange platform, a simple gateway to Fediverse for scientific interaction
🌟 Immers Space – a virtual reality metaverse platform powered by Mozilla Hubs and ActivityPub-Express
🌟 Lotide – a federated forum / link aggregator
🌟 Tavern – a minimalistic ActivityPub server
🌟 Learn Awesome – a review aggregation site generalized to all learning resources organized by topics, formats and difficulty
🌟 OpenEngiadina – a knowledge base and a social network using ActivityPub and the Semantic Web
🌟 Gathio – self-destructing, shareable, no-registration event pages
🌟 SemApps – a collaborative, generic knowledge management system for easing data storage and filtering
🌟 FlockingBird – network for professionals, a LinkedIn alternative
🌟 SkoHub – a publication / subscription infrastructure for Open Educational Resources; allows to follow specific subjects and be notified when new content is published
🌟 Reedlebee – a viable Goodreads alternative; book reading progress, lists, reviews, comments, and more
🌟 LubarGW2 – federating guild website using GuildWars2 API
🌟 XWiki Extension – an implementation of the ActivityPub for XWiki
→ For a full list of Fediverse projects in development see Miscellaneous page.
Related new projects:
• SepiaSearch – search engine for PeerTube
Fediverse 2020 timeline
✔ January 6: Smithereen open sources its codebase
✔ January 23: ForgeFed gets funded by NGI Zero Discovery Fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Comission’s Next Generation Internet program
✔ January 30: Funkwhale receives funding from NGI Zero (NLnet)
✔ February: Simon Urli announces plans to add ActivityPub to XWiki, an open-source Wiki platform; receives funding from NGI Zero (NLNet)
✔ March: Pleroma introduces federated emoji reactions in its 2.0 release
✔ March: Friendica adds custom profile fields, support for ActivityPub relays, and starts federating with Funkwhale
✔ April: The French ministry deploys about 35 PeerTube instances, creating a vast platform of educational videos without tracking and advertisements
✔ April 7: New project OpenEngiadina joins the scene. The project was supported by NGI Zero (NLnet)
✔ May: Mastodon’s creator announces that some progress has been made on adding end-to-end encryption for direct messages in Mastodon. By the end of 2020, this is a work in progress
✔ May 16: PixelDroid, an Android client for Pixelfed, prepares for an alpha release
✔ May 18: Fediverse 🐣 celebrates its 12 birthday
✔ June 23: Lemmy project is funded by NGI Zero (NLnet)
✔ July 23: Masto.host, the biggest provider for Mastodon, experiences a major DDoS attack
✔ August: Google threatens to remove several popular Fediverse apps from Google Play on the pretext that servers in Fediverse engage in hate speech and users can be exposed to it via these apps. Fedilab, a popular multi-purpose Fediverse app, receives Google warning too. This brings a wave of rage from users who blame Google for double standards and demand to also ban Twitter apps and Chrome, as all of them expose users to hate speech. Heated discussions on HackerNews, Reddit and other tech outlets follow
✔ August 28: Pleroma introduces ActivityPub chats in 2.1.0 release
✔ September 09: Funkwhale releases first stable version
✔ September 15: Mario Vavti, Hubzilla core developer, achieves a grant from NGIZero (NLnet)
✔ September 22: Framasoft introduces SepiaSearch - a search engine to help discover videos and channels on PeerTube
✔ September 30: Pixelcat, Android client for Pixelfed, Mastodon and Pleroma, gets traction
✔ October: 👍 Debian donates 10.000 Euros to fund free and decentralized live-streaming in PeerTube
✔ October 2-5th: A conference about the present and future of ActivityPub takes place in Barcelona. 💡 Watch the talks
✔ October 3: SepiaSearch is now integrated in Searx
✔ October 20: Lemmy starts federating via ActivityPub
✔ October 27: Mobilizon stable version 1.0 and a guided tour of the project are released
✔ November: Streaming is coming to PeerTube, a feature awaited by many
✔ November 18: Funkwhale is looking for new maintainers
✔ December 25: Socialhome project adds alpha support for Matrix
✔ December: An ActivityPub conference happens during rC3, 💡 watch the talk about Funkwhale.
Is any important 2020 event missing? Feel free to suggest it in issues or send a suggestion in a direct message.
Fediverse is mostly run by volunteers who spend their own money to keep the network going. If you enjoy being on Fediverse, please, consider sponsoring your own local server or donating to Fedi project you most often use.
Fediverse in 2021
05.01.22 Author(s): @lostinlight ,Happy 2022, fedizens!
At the end of each year we traditionally compile a digest of what’s happened in Fediverse (beginning with 2019 and 2020).
So, buckle your seatbelts and lets travel back in time. Let us watch the progress of glorious Fediverse in the past year.
Credits: image from Pixabay
Fediverse in numbers
In 2021 Fediverse expanded from 5.027 to 7.744 known servers. That’s about +2.700 nodes! An impressive growth, compared to previous couple of years that showed a stable trend of 900-1.000 new servers a year.
In June fediverse.party started counting Plume, Lemmy and Mobilizon in yearly statistics. They account for only 222 servers though, so the rest of the statistics spike definitely indicates that Fediverse is growing! By the way, we launched our own Fediverse crawler in November, to make sure that these numbers are as accurate as possible.
Credits: pie chart by Minoru
The ammount of registered accounts went back up to 2019 levels and by the end of 2021 slightly surpassed that benchmark, reaching ~4.500.000.
We, fedizens, know that numbers aren’t the most important thing in the world. But grown-ups like numbers.
Credits: image by Devran Topallar, Pixabay license
So let’s mention that, despite smaller userbase, Fediverse is showing its true potential for free open source projects: those developers who officially join our corner of the Internet enjoy higher follower numbers than on centralized social networks. \O/
Seven networks growing most rapidly in online servers in 2021 were:
• Misskey 🎉 ~ quadrupled server numbers (+220)
• PeerTube 🎉 ~ tripled server numbers (+760)
• Funkwhale 🎉 ~ tripled server numbers (+83)
• Pleroma 🎉 ~ doubled server numbers (+483)
• WriteFreely 🎉 ~ doubled server numbers (+180)
• Pixelfed 🎉 ~ doubled server numbers (+106)
• Mastodon 🎉 ~ +28% (+792)
Note: these numbers are an approximation based on statistics voluntarily provided by server administrators. Servers go offline / online every hour, every day, so the numbers reflect only part of Fediverse at the time this article was published.
Fediverse in projects
At least 12 new projects joined Fediverse in 2021!
🌟 GoToSocial – social network server written in Golang
🌟 Owncast – self-hosted live streaming platform
🌟 Castopod – open-source platform made for podcasters who want to engage and interact with their audience
🌟 Inventaire – platform for cataloguing and sharing physical books from personal collections and independent libraries
🌟 GoBlog – simple blogging system written in Go
🌟 bopwiki – simple “microwiki” implementation, fairly similar to the Zettelkasten system
🌟 Wolfgame – a game akin to Mafia; once started, it simulates a day/night cycle and allows players to vote on who might be a werewolf during the day
🌟 Dharma – federated community-building platform for Eve Online corporations
🌟 lectrn – social network for humans that is free, decentralized, open, and easy to use
🌟 Catcast-D – federated video live streaming platform
🌟 FChannel – libre, self-hostable imageboard platform that utilizes ActivityPub
🌟 hvxahv – multifunctional decentralized social network implementation
→ For the full list of Fediverse projects in development see Miscellaneous page.
Project forks:
🥄 Ecko – fork of Mastodon to optimize toward community, that is making it as easy as possible to contribute
🥄 Acropolis – fork of diaspora that’s making it as easy as possible to contribute
New extensions:
💎 Group Actor – groups work with any software that implements Mastodon client API; has moderation, admin announcements
Fediverse ecosystem
In July Inexcode] relaunched fediverse.space - a beautiful project that has previously been developed by Tao Bojlén and that got a second life thanks to its codebase being open source! In November Minoru open sourced Fediverse nodes list to help public statistics hubs and to empower new ecosystem developments! And by the end of the year, Fediverse Wiki project was launched.
Credits: background image by Alex Antropov, Pixabay license
Let’s make even more useful, quality projects around Fedi! And, please, may they not rely on avoidable 3rd-party dependencies, like Google Fonts, Cloudflare and other centralized trackers.
More and more official institutions are moving towards FOSS and Fediverse:
• In 2021 Noyb.eu officially established its presence (for the second time:);
• Museums explore federated networks: Beeld en Geluid, the Netherlands Sound & Vision museum installed their own PeerTube server; European Institute for Contemporary Art and Science opened a Mastodon account;
• New accounts of German politicians keep popping up;
• Universities are joining federated networks too.
There have also been ideas to set up an official Fediverse foundation, a legal entity to provide extra opportunities for contributors who want to work on improving Fediverse. Arnold Schrijver has been working on fedi.foundation. Would you like to be part of this initiative? Join the discussion!
Fediverse 2021 timeline
✔ January 7: PeerTube version 3 is out, complete with live streaming feature and a behind-the-scenes 💡 short film
✔ January 17: Lemmur, a mobile client for Lemmy, has its first release
✔ February: Pleroma surpasses the 1.000 servers milestone
✔ March 10: a wave of new users migrates into the Russian constellation of Fediverse
✔ April: NGI Zero organize a series of webinars and workshops called “ActivityPub for Administrations”
✔ April 2: Castopod, a platform for podcasters, joins Fediverse
✔ April 18: diaspora* releases a new minor version. Jonne Haß , one of the core team members, continues work on a new native app for Android and iOS – you can already help with translations and beta test it (the app will work for pods running the develop branch v0.7.99.0 where the API is available)
✔ May: Fediverse holds its very own Fedivision song contest
✔ May 17: Tusky, a popular Fediverse mobile app, is temporarily removed from Google Play Store, because Google doesn’t understand decentralization. Users who’d downloaded it on FDroid weren’t affected. Google had already threatened to remove Fediverse apps in 2020, so this is becoming a nice yearly tradition.
✔ May 18: Fediverse 🐣 celebrates its 13 birthday
✔ May 26: Smithereen, a project offering the look and features similar to Vkontakte, makes its first beta release
✔ June: Owncast is awarded a grant by the NLnet Foundation to support work around federation and ActivityPub
✔ June: PeerTube surpasses the 1.000 servers milestone and becomes second most popular ActivityPub project by node count (after Mastodon)
✔ July 5: WriteFreely, a blogging Fediverse platform, shares an up-to-date roadmap for the next 6 months
✔ July 18: GNU Social maintainers release a long-awaited version 2.0 with ActivityPub support, and later publish some updates and plans for version 3
✔ August 4: Bookwyrm, a social reading and reviewing platform, gets an official website
✔ August 8: Pleroma 2.4.0 is released, featuring many fixes, additions and improvements
✔ August 13: Mastodon is registered as a non-profit organization
✔ September: Fedi stats hub Poduptime gets re-branded and becomes Fediverse.observer
✔ September 1: first Owncast tests of federation over ActivityPub
✔ September: Facebook is caught following Twitter’s practice and flagging posts with links to certain Fediverse related websites
✔ September 8: Pixelfed’s latest stable release adds media licenses, federated stories and improved mod and admin tools
✔ September 25: Friendica “Siberian Iris” is out, with scheduled postings, better notification system and admin panel improvements
✔ September 28: Gitea, a community-maintained Git project, adds NodeInfo support, getting one step closer to ActivityPub federation between code forges
✔ September 28: Funkwhale’s official Android app becomes available on FDroid.
✔ November: Mastodon fork Truth.Social, associated with the former president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, is open sourced after pressure from the maintainers of Mastodon
✔ November 9: Hubzilla introduces version 6.4 that improves file upload performance and all-in-one channel cloning via network
✔ November 13: GoToSocial project makes its first beta release
✔ November 13: Lemmur (Lemmy client) receives funding from NGIZero NLnet foundation
✔ November 14: Lemmy starts federating with several other Fedi projects
✔ November 21: diaspora* core team reveales its short-term plans for the future
✔ November 22: FedeProxy, a project that will allow code forges to interoperate, gets rebranded to ForgeFriends. Earlier this year developers behind the project got a grant from NGI DAPSI
✔ November 23: Mobilizon releases version 2 with many tweaks and improvements
✔ November 30: PeerTube version 4 is out, bringing advanced filter features that improve moderation and administration
✔ December 6: Bonfire team who are working on customizable ActivityPub software share their new beautiful website communicating the vision and the motivations behind the project
✔ December 7: Inventaire becomes part of Fediverse
✔ December 26: Bonfire is awarded a grant from the Culture of Solidarity Fund to support cross-border cultural initiatives of solidarity in times of uncertainty and “infodemic”
Is any important 2021 event missing? Feel free to suggest it in issues or send a suggestion in a direct message.
Fediverse.party news
Feneas, the organization hosting this website and its repository, may soon shut down. This is sad news. Huge thanks to all the Feneas team, and personally to Jason Robinson and Lukas Matt, for your work, for always being patient and helpful. Good luck in all your future endeavours!
Fediverse.party is in search of a new home. It would be nice to move to another GitLab instance. But, as stability and reliability are more important than certain software, we’ll most likely migrate to Codeberg. Let’s wait and see how it works out.
Move slow and build things to last! Here’s to another great year. 🎉
Fediverse is mostly run by volunteers who spend their own money to keep the network going. If you enjoy being on Fediverse, please, consider sponsoring your own local server or donating to Fedi project you most often use.
Contributors wanted (updated)
21.06.18 Author(s): @lostinlight ,Now that The-Federation.Info includes diaspora, OStatus and ActivityPub powered networks, it’s the time to join and help squashing bugs and resolving issues. If you know someone fluent in Python / VueJS or someone who wants to learn those, please, spread the word that they are very welcome to join the project and will get initial help to start contributing. Thanks!
Initial call for contributors was published here.
Fediverse parties on (links updated)
14.03.19 Author(s): @lostinlight ,Hey, fedizens!
You may have noticed not a post has been published in the Chronicles since the end of 2018. Has Fediverse run out of news? Certainly not. Here’s a brief overview of what has happened during this period.
Dull figures
The 2018 report (update: link not available anymore) reveals that the world of federating networks has greatly expanded. The first three months of 2019 have seen about 450 new servers - hopefully, some of them will stay online (and updated). New accounts are being created and, apparenty, people remember about their old accounts, as the number of active users on most Fediverse networks increases weekly. If you wish to research figures, subscribe to Federation stats bot via any diaspora protocol platform (diaspora, Friendica, Hubzilla or Socialhome). Provided numbers are an approximation, and some projects are misrepresented: Friendica, Hubzilla real server numbers, GNU Social account numbers stand higher than metrics show. This is due to technical issues (mainly with NodeInfo / NodeInfo2), and because some servers opt out of taking part in statistics. The good news is Fediverse keeps growing!
New kids on the block
ActivityPub protocol stirred up many developers. Not a month passes now without a new federating project. The young blood of 2019 are Mobilizon and Smilodon. Fediverse developing software and related tools are all listed here. There’s also a Wiki.
At the same time several projects are being abandoned. Osada is one of those - the lead developer announced that the software won’t get any future updates. The world of OStatus federating projects (GNU Social, postActiv) has also been quiet for a long while.
Among older projects Pleroma, a lightweight microblogging network, has recently had its first stable release.
A fine end to the year 2018, diaspora project got an API. It’s still a work in progress, with luck we’ll see more diaspora-related applications this year.
Not everyone is excited about ActivityPub protocol. Diaspora developer shared final thoughts on the topic. Pleroma has implemented its own LitePub protocol version. Nevertheless, the majority of Fediverse new apps support federation over ActivityPub, and there’s a forum where developers meet to discuss things.
Unexpecto patronum
In other news, Mastodon project received a Stack Zero grant from Samsung Next and was definitely noticed by Google, Keybase and the Meet group corporation.
Friendica now has a mascot! Its name is Flaxy O’Hare. 🐰
Fediverse.Party update
Initially this website was created as a guide for newcomers to Fediverse, a modern source of information one can use as a reference. As federating projects multiply, it becomes tricky to cover all the things happening in each project’s community. On the other hand, all recent posts published here were release notes. Newcomers to Fediverse most likely find it boring to read interpetations of technical feature additions. And seasoned fedizens keep track of new releases by following project’s official announcements. Or one can follow a bot aggregating all releases via RSS - also available directly from Fediverse (releases@venera.social) and best formated in diaspora protocol networks; following the bot from Mastodon not recommended because of the way Mastodon handles articles with titles.
For reasons stated above there will be no more posts about software releases. The primary focus will be keeping the main website information up-to-date and publishing long-form articles about federating world, comparing its software, exploring its strengths (and weaknesses). Perhaps we’ll regularly cover what’s new in Fediverse - that’s still to be decided by our (rather small) team.
Happy decentralizing!
Fediverse.Party turns 5
26.11.22 Author(s): @lostinlight ,Fediverse.party turns 5
Can you believe it’s been five years already? Five years of helping novices get their bearings in the varied landscape that is Fediverse. Five years of guiding people towards smaller, niche instances to strengthen the federation. Five years of keeping up to date with all the diverse projects, big and small, that comprise our network.
This was achieved in large part due to all your pull requests with corrections and updates. Thanks to all the contributors! By the way, since moving to Codeberg, our repository is getting almost twice more pull requests than it used to get on GitLab. ;)
Here’s to five more years! 🎉
Fediverse saves you from pickup artists, and 7 more reasons you should make a Fediverse account
05.07.18 Author(s): @lostinlight ,The Internet is huge with millions of websites and web services, however, like in offline world people tend to move from countryside to towns to cities, Internet users concentrate on large well-known platforms. We are all familiar with the names of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Weibo, Vkontakte, Google, YouTube, Tinder. These services may be useful, but they aren’t the only ones.
Compared to popular mass giants, Fediverse networks are like precious gems. Few people heard of them, but they are out there, waiting for you to find them.
“Fediverse” means federated universe. There’s no one website to sign up to. Instead you will find hundreds of websites (servers) powered by citizens all around the world, independent from and uncontrolled by any single company. These servers are all interconnected, so no matter where you register[1], you’ll be able to connect with friends and users of other servers.
Instead of listing “one hundred suits them all” reasons why you should switch to federated social platforms, let’s look at reasons for each particular person. That’s what Fediverse is good at - providing choices.
- If you’re an extrovert, linguist
- If you’re an introvert, nerd, geek, scholar, developer
- If you’re a content creator, freelance artist
- If you’ve been censored on centralized platforms
- If you care about privacy, are a privacy advocate or NGO
- If you’re a troll
- If you don’t like to share your telephone number with “pickup artists”
- If you’re a big corp engineer, secret agent
Federated socializing is your cup of tea. Currently[2] there are about 3.500.000 registered users in Fediverse online world. Compared to corporate giants, that’s like a small eco village.
It’s natural in Fediverse to welcome new users, to start conversations with anyone who shares your interests, to follow strangers. Do you easily connect with people from other cultures and regions? Would you like to broaden your social network and become neighbours and friends with people from somewhere on the other side of the map from you? We have communities dedicated to all sorts of hobbies, regions, languages, political and social views, ecology and animal related servers, books, shows and games. Choose your community.
A wonder you’re still not part of Fediverse! It’s your space, it’s full of people like you. We’re scattered across Fediverse servers, searching for kindred spirits. There are communities for researchers, bookworms, game developers, web developers and techies, as well as servers run by respectable organizations and entities.
Your content should be yours, without granting the explicit rights to any corporate third parties. Fediverse communities have high opinions of creators and willingly support their work through donations. We have communities for writers, artists and photographers. Here’re recommentations on how to become a successful artist on Mastodon. Share your talents with fedizens.
Federated social networks do not have one holy administrator who decides whom and what to ban. You’ll find multiple servers for sensitive, vulnerable communities. Unlike on mainstream social networks, you will not be silenced for personal views. It’s customary to share some images and content adding a special #NSFW tag (not safe for work): for spoilers, content inappropriate for children or for people at work. Remember still that each server is run by a volunteer, living in some country with its laws and regulations. Most servers have local rules, and your administrator has the power to ask you leave if you do something nasty. You’ll be able to migrate to another server and do nasty things again, but you’d rather not. Spammers are not welcome, Fediverse administrators quickly react and share information withing the community. Other users have the ability to “ignore” or “mute” people who irritate them. Being nice to each other is a tradition here.
Then you definitely heard about Snowden revelations, Cambridge Analytica, Equifax breach], Exactis leak, manipulative practices, multiple user data hacks, and so on and so forth. Big centralized websites with big juicy collections of data are useful for mass surveillance.
Are your friends aware of it? By leaving mainstream networks behind and joining Fediverse you do not automatically gain privacy. Securing data is hard, and federated networks will not protect you from targeted state surveillance. They will, however, protect from corporate mass surveillance. Especially if you spin up your own personal server, secure it, and host it at home. By inviting friends and family to Fediverse you help them treat their personal data wisely, you also help them broaden horizons, find out more about free and open source movements, become technically skilled. Everyone curious who likes to explore will learn in Fediverse.
As a privacy rights organization, by opening your own server or your official Fediverse account on one of the existing servers, and inviting followers on mainstream networks to join you in Fediverse, you help make bulk data collection more diffuclt and costly.
Fediverse has a server in your honour! Be nice to each other.
Those who invented “pickup” thingy were on a mission to help people stay single, right? When someone weird approaches you in real life and you don’t know what to make of them, why share your phone number or email? If you wish to test their Internet IQ and determination, tell them you’ll meet them in Fediverse. A Fediverse account resembles an email and includes your nickname and your server URL - for example, jane@nerdpol.ch. Anyone who really wants to connect with you, will find the way to join Fediverse and search for your profile.
Then you’re clever. Are you capable of empathy? Come on the light side. Transparency is your power, and there’s nothing old-fashioned about privacy for your family and loved ones. Just like for all the other citizens of the world. If you know that at heart, you will be invaluable in building social networking the right way.
Not convinced yet? Ask this
…and it will show the reason just for you.
Federated networks won’t track you, bombard with “personalized” ads or predefine your timeline (stream) with algorithms. You will be the one to decide what to see in your timeline, by following the topics you’re interested in (subscribing to tags in diaspora, Mastodon), connecting with people you like, joining groups and forums (in Friendica, Hubzilla). Come join us!
Fediverse networks are not ideal. They lack some features provided by mass networks. This is because they are not backed by millions of dollars big companies have, they’re developed by people like you and me, in their spare time, for free or for donations from the community. If you want to help improve any of the federated platforms, don’t hesitate to ask how to help and start contributing. Welcome!
Fediverse.Party marks a 3 years milestone
25.11.20 Author(s): @lostinlight ,Happy Birthday to us! 🎉
Time flies, and here we are, partying in Fediverse for almost 3 years! “Almost”, because, strictly speaking, the website went online somewhere in mid-winter. It took a couple of months to brainstorm design concepts and make them reality. But November 25th was the day this domain was registered, which is as good as any day for looking back at the journey and for eating cakes!
Left to right: mascots of Fediverse – fennec for Mobilizon, octopus for PeerTube, Fox tan for Pleroma, red koala for Hubzilla, mastodon for Mastodon, Flaxy O’Hare for Friendica, Ai for Misskey, whale for Funkwhale, red panda Fred for Pixelfed. Credits: octopus and fennec characters’ author – David Revoy; illustration by @lostinlight, CC-BY-SA, large version.
This is a static website generated with Hexo, which allows lazy, stress-free maintenance, though, potentially, slightly limits functionality. Big thanks to Feneas administrator team, who make sure the website and its repository stay intact.
✔ fediverse.party should work for users who prefer to block scripts in the browser. This was done mostly for fun (CSS is fun). Has this actually been useful to anyone? Let us know, if it has.
Some things, like power and personal data, are best left decentralized. Other things, like knowledge and public data, benefit from centralization, for convenience. There were no certain plans for the website, except one: make finding Fediverse related things a bit easier. So if you’ve bookmarked this website and returned to it later in search of GNU Social’s new repository or a link to Mastodon’s Trunk that you’ve seen days ago but have forgotten since - then everything works as it should. One bookmark instead of many!
Boring statistics
Since our main goal is to gather information about Fediverse projects, we link to many external resources. Today it’s more than 700 external links.
So far our repository has witnessed 518 commits.
Maintenance work is hidden from visitor’s eyes and is mostly about keeping all the links up-to-date, removing broken and adding new ones, updating information.
Most importantly, fediverse.party has had 11 merge requests by 10 amazing humans!
One of our contributors suggested using HTMLproofer for regularly checking all links, which became a huge time-saver. Many thanks to that clever person.
Most Fediverse projects have a community of their own with communications in dedicated chats and forums. Some projects don’t have any official account which would share latest project’s news. Following the progress of such projects becomes a tricky task. This is where your contributions and merge requests were a significant help. Thank you!
Behind the scenes
The website’s design hasn’t changed much since its launch. Among the newly created pages, perhaps the most useful are two pages listing all known ActivityPub software projects and developer tools.
Did you know we also have a Wiki? It’s a draft for information that later finds its way onto website’s pages. Being a draft, it gives more freedom to maintainers to list any projects, even those that only intend to support federating protocols in the future (while the website lists only projects that have already started initial work).
This Wiki would have been impossible without several maintainers: Danyl Strype, Liaizon Wakest, Eric Buijs and Arnold Schrijver have all contributed to fediverse.party Wiki pages - thank you very much! 👍 Specifically, Danyl Strype and Arnold Schrijver are to be thanked for finding and catalogueing all the newly appearing Fediverse projects. Their valuable work should be mentioned in books about Fediverse research history! In any case, it’s definitely part of this website’s history.
Plans for the future?
The creator of this website has always wished to make it attractive for Fediverse newcomers. Once upon a time, someone submitted fediverse.party to HackerNews. After deciphering angry user comments, we got some really good feedback on what user experience issues the website had! Since then, there were no attempts to find any feedback from common users.
A week ago, preparing for our symbolic 3 year milestone, we had a mini “crash test”, where several completely non-nerdy users were asked to look at every page, click here and there, read and say what they think about it.
The experience was an eye-opener. It can’t be called a complete fiasco: design and pictures received some kind comments. But the conclusion is simple: in its current state, fediverse.party is not helpful to any common grandma, not helpful at all. A new, nontech-friendly version of the website would require much less text (of a completely different nature), much more images and – crucially important – absolutely different terminology.
Which is to say, we won’t try to be a website for everyone. If we can be of any value to tech-savvy people who are already part of Fediverse, our mission is accomplished.
As for another, better version of this site – will it appear? Depends on luck. But nothing is impossible!
Feedback
If you’d like to share ideas on how to improve the website, open an issue in our repository or contact any of the maintainers directly in Fediverse.
And there’s an old bot account that informs whenever popular Fediverse projects release a new version. It’s buggy. You don’t want to contact it. :)
Stay safe, stay decentralized! 🎉
Fediparty moves to a new home
31.01.22 Author(s): @lostinlight ,Fediverse.Party and its Wiki finally finished migration to a new home!
Feneas association, that has kindly hosted this website and its repository, is being dissolved. Thank you to all Feneas members for having us (and hope to still meet you all in decentralized Web)!
Our code repository moved to Codeberg forge. The automated migration from GitLab to Codeberg works like a charm! We’re excited and honoured to be part of Codeberg community.
ActivityPub Apps and Tools lists are now part of #delightful lists curated by @humanetech (updates appear on the website, as always).
Please, update your bookmarks.
The website is now hosted by @minoru. And we also have a mirror, just in case.
Friendica hackathon 2018
13.11.18 Author(s): @lostinlight ,Join Friendica hackathon this weekend, offline in Berlin, or online. Work will be focused on the open issues of the upcoming 2018.12 release. Read the announcement for contacts and details.
Happy hacking!
Gopher Support in Pleroma
02.04.18 Author(s): @lostinlight ,Pleroma is a high-performance and low-resource federating server meant to run even on small devices like Raspberry Pi. And now it supports Gopher protocol! Simplicity is perfection. Read the announcement here.
Hubzilla moves to Framagit
07.06.18 Author(s): @lostinlight ,Hubzilla project moved source code to Framasoft’s GitLab instance. GitHub repos are archived and won’t receive updates anymore but will stay intact for a short transition period. Don’t forget to point your installation to new repository.
Pinafore Mastodon web client
09.04.18 Author(s): @lostinlight ,Pinafore is a new Mastodon web client: simple, fast on low-end laptops and phones. Mastodon already has several alternative clients, as well as multiple mobile apps and command-line tools. All thanks to its good open API and thriving community. Read more about Pinafore here.
Misskey part of Fediverse
06.05.18 Author(s): @wakest ,Welcome Misskey - a sophisticated microblogging platform. It brings polls, recommended users, server info, dark mode, emoji reactions and much more! Misskey network communicates with ActivityPub servers, so you can follow users from Mastodon, Pleroma and other compatible Fediverse platforms.
Toot toot
05.06.18 Author(s): @lostinlight ,Tootle is a new Linux GTK3 client for elementary OS and Mastodon. Users confirmed that it also works with Pleroma. Available in elementary OS AppCenter.
New brutal Mastodon client
02.06.18 Author(s): @lostinlight ,Brutaldon is a brutal, Web 1.0 web interface for Mastodon. You can use it as a client for any instance. You do not need a separate brutaldon account. It is compatible with almost any web browser, including text-mode browsers like lynx, w3m, or eww. Screenshots, issues tracker, and source code are available here.
This adds to several other alternative Mastodon frontends, like Pinafore and Halcyon. The latter can be used with Pleroma, as well as a new diaspora-like frontend Feather.
+ 1 Rust project
11.04.18 Author(s): @lostinlight ,As Fediverse is growing, we shall likely see more and more projects appearing, which is brilliant! And here comes Rustodon - a Mastodon-compatible, ActivityPub-speaking server in Rust. It’s currently heavy under development but you can already check out the progress or join and contribute.
Update October 2023
30.10.23 Author(s): @lostinlight ,Fediparty update, October 2023
Hi, fedizens! Long time no see.
@lostinlight here 👋, with a small announcement and a big question for everyone who’s still reading this blog or RSS feed (is anyone out there? :)
Once upon a time Fediverse.Party tried to keep up with everything going on in Fedi. We posted about latest software releases and developments on the Chronicles page, via RSS and Friendica account. But no new posts have appeared for a long time.
It’s because there’re three great sources of Fediverse news now: fediversereport.com, wedistribute.org, and @weekinfediverse. They cover all the stories happening in our federated universe. Following them is the best way to stay well-informed!
What shall happen to Chronicles page of this website then? Removing it would not be right; yearly Fediverse recaps and Birthday posts should remain at least for the sake of history. Now that we have a Boosty page, I think it’ll be useful to post about website updates on a somewhat regular basis. Like release notes, but for a website. I hope it’ll help readers find out about new ActivityPub tools and Fediverse-related projects (even though some of the projects added to Software and Developer tools pages are not new, it just took a long time to find them).
So, here goes the summary of October site updates.
Projects added to Software:
- Mbin – a fork of kbin, community-focused;
- Messy – single user ActivityPub instance intended to add Fediverse compatibility to existing Django-based sites;
- SofaPub – a minimally functional ActivityPub implementation in Rust;
- Vidzy – federated alternative to TikTok;
- LibRate – libre media rating website for the Fediverse.
Projects added to Developer tools:
- GhostCMS ActivityPub – an ExpressJS server that integrates with GhostCMS webhooks to publish ActivityPub content on the Fediverse;
- Mobilizon Crossposter – a modular crossposter to bridge events from external sources to Mobilizon;
- M-OAuth – access token generator for Akkoma, Pleroma, Mastodon APIs;
- idkfa – proxy designed to consolidate multiple AP actors; it presents a single unified activity interface to the outside world, while communicating with a cornucopia of internal servers;
- Hatsu – self-hosted and fully automated ActivityPub bridge for static sites;
- Fedipage – Hugo based static page generator and blog with ActivityPub support;
- ActivityPub Test Suite – server-independent, full-automated test suite primary focused on ActivityPub server compliance testing;
- Lemmy Automoderator – automated removal of Lemmy posts, comments based on title, content or link; user whitelisting and exceptions for moderators;
- Lemmy Migrate – migrate your subscribed Lemmy communites to a new account;
- Lemmy Schedule – app for scheduling posts, pins/unpins and notifications about new content in Lemmy;
- Fedi safety – script that goes through Lemmy images in storage and tries to prevent illegal or unethical content;
- FediFetcher – tool for Mastodon that automatically fetches missing replies and posts from other Fediverse instances and adds them to your own Mastodon instance;
- GetMoarFediverse – import content into your instance that’s tagged with hashtags you’re interested in;
- FakeRelay – an API to index statuses on Mastodon acting as a relay;
- masto-backfill – fetches old posts on your Mastodon, Pleroma or compatible instance(s);
- Analytodon – monitor follower growth, identify popular posts, track boosts, favorites, and much more; can be self-hosted;
- LASIM – move your Lemmy settings from one account to another;
- Pythörhead – Python library for interacting with Lemmy;
- Granary – social web translator; it fetches and converts data between social networks, HTML and JSON, ActivityStreams/ActivityPub, and more;
- Combine.social – combine remote and local timelines; pre-fetch all missing replies in your home timeline;
- ActivityColander – Fediverse spam gateway, designed to keep unwanted messages from either reaching your ActivityPub server, or tagging them for handling later.
Other improvements
There’s a new filter by license on Software page. And Lemmy was added to the frontpage.
UX research
Now comes the big question for all the readers of this blog and users of Fediparty website. We’ve been with you for more than 5 years, but never asked you how you’re using this site. What are the pages you visit most often? What pages or features you find most useful? Which ones you find poorly designed?
Any ideas, suggestions, complaints, feedback you have, please, share with us! Here’s a special Codeberg issue for it. Or you can write your suggestions as an answer to this Mastodon post.
Thanks in advance! 💜
Call for Participation
20.07.19 Author(s): @lostinlight ,Join the efforts to standardize the Zot protocol, currently used in Hubzilla and Zap platforms. This is a community initiative to push Zot adoption for federated social web.
19.08.24
EXPLORE DEVELOPER TOOLS
Sort by category:
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Friendica Friendica
Personal network with no central authority or ownership. Keep in contact with people you care about
Lemmy Lemmy
Follow communities anywhere in the world
Mastodon Mastodon
Social networking back in your hands. Find your perfect community. Take control of your content
PeerTube PeerTube
Decentralized video hosting. Take back the control of your videos
Pleroma Pleroma
Federated microblogging, light as a feather
Funkwhale Funkwhale
A social platform to enjoy and share music
Hubzilla Hubzilla
Feature-rich social platform. Create channels with a decentralized nomadic identity
Misskey Misskey
Sophisticated microblogging with personality
Pixelfed Pixelfed
Federated social image sharing for everyone
diaspora diaspora
Online world where you are in control. Own your data. Choose your audience. Be who you want to be
Hello, traveller!
Leave the familiar Web behind, and dive into the unique part of the Internet.
This is the world of independence and diversity.
A universe that you shape, refine and expand.
Friendica Friendica
Personal network with no central authority or ownership. Keep in contact with people you care about
Lemmy Lemmy
Follow communities anywhere in the world
Mastodon Mastodon
Social networking back in your hands. Find your perfect community. Take control of your content
PeerTube PeerTube
Decentralized video hosting. Take back the control of your videos
Pleroma Pleroma
Federated microblogging, light as a feather
Funkwhale Funkwhale
A social platform to enjoy and share music
Hubzilla Hubzilla
Feature-rich social platform. Create channels with a decentralized nomadic identity
Misskey Misskey
Sophisticated microblogging with personality
Pixelfed Pixelfed
Federated social image sharing for everyone
diaspora diaspora
Online world where you are in control. Own your data. Choose your audience. Be who you want to be
Hello, traveller!
Leave the familiar Web behind, and dive into the unique part of the Internet.
This is the world of independence and diversity.
A universe that you shape, refine and expand.
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We spent so-o-o much time trying to describe mascots in a way that is not a dead give-away.
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-**Which project has a large marine mammal as a mascot?** Funkwhale. In fact, it has 3 whale mascots - blue Betty, green Harriet and pink Wanda! All drawm by a community member Robin.
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-**Which project has a marine mollusk as a mascot?** PeerTube. The cuttlefish named Papa Sepia was created by David Revoy.
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-**Whose mascot looks like a cute bear and feeds on bamboo?** Pixelfed. You can find the original assets of red panda Fred [here](https://github.com/pixelfed/brand-assets).
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-**Which project has a small swift mammal with elongated ears as a mascot?** Friendica. The community named the mascot Flaxy O'Hare, it was drawn by lostinlight.
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-**Whose mascot animal is native to Australia and feeds on eucalyptus?** Hubzilla. Its mascot is red koala. The initial creator of Hubzilla lives in Australia.
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-**Which project has a small nocturnal fox as a mascot?** Mobilizon. [Rose](https://framablog.org/2020/10/27/photo-novel-guided-tour-of-mobilizon/) the fennec was designed by David Revoy.
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-**Which project has a flowering plant as a mascot?** diaspora*. The word “diaspora” refers to the dispersal of seeds (or people) over a wide area and the asterisk in the name represents a fluffy dandelion seed.
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-**Which project does not directly contribute to Fediverse’s development?** Twitter BlueSky.
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-**Which project directly contributes to Fediverse’s development and success?** [Glitch-Soc](https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs) – a popular fork of Mastodon with extra features.
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-**Who was among the editors of ActivityPub specification?** Christine Lemmer-Webber, but don't forget the other editors too: Jessica Tallon, Erin Shepherd, Amy Guy, and Evan Prodromou. Writing standards is hard; these folks deserve a medal!
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-**Which project was named after a music band?** Mastodon.🤘 Actually, depending on the sources, the project [may](https://mic.com/articles/173297/what-is-mastodon-everything-to-know-about-new-social-network) or [may not](http://mashable.com/2017/04/06/mastodon-band-social-media) be named after the band, but Eugen Rochko, the creator of Mastodon network, is definitely a fan of the band. By the way, one other Fedi project has musical roots too: [Lemmy](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/index.html#whys-it-called-lemmy) is the name of a lead singer of Motörhead.
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-**Which project first allowed users to add cat ears to their avatars?** Misskey. Several people told us that some Pleroma servers used to have this feature even before Misskey, but as we couldn't find it in Pleroma's code repository, the answer is still technically correct.
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-**What protocol is most widely adopted in Fediverse?** ActivityPub.
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-**How many user accounts are there in Fediverse?** 2-7 million. In related news, [the-federation.info is under development again](https://github.com/thefederationinfo/the-federation.info/pull/284). Give a helping hand if you are into frontend webdev and/or Python!
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-**Who published the identi.ca post that marks the beginning of Fediverse?** Evan Prodromou.
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-**Which one is not a fork of Mastodon?** Pleroma. This may seem an idiotic question, but over the years we've seen many newcomers whose acquaintance with Fediverse starts and ends with Mastodon. They come across popular Mastodon forks and assume that all Fedi microblogging platforms are some variant of modified Mastodon. This question was a reminder that Pleroma, like many other microblogging projects, has a different, independent codebase and history.
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-**Which one started as a fork of Pleroma?** In our quiz, the correct answer is Mobilizon, but it was pointed out to us that it wasn't a full-blown fork — Mobilizon just borrowed some of the code. We couldn't come up with a better phrasing for the question though, so it is what it is.
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-**What is the unofficial Fediverse mascot suggested by community members?** Phoenix - the symbol of rebirth, renewal, progress and eternity. A legendary bird that rises from the ashes, just like federated networks fall in popularity and rise again, better and stronger. Hopefully you noticed that the birds at the end of the quiz are phoenixes too!
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-**Which one of these supports Gopher protocol?** [Pleroma](https://blog.soykaf.com/post/gopher-support-in-pleroma).
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-**What’s the name of a popular Android app for Funkwhale?** [Otter](https://github.com/apognu/otter).
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-**What’s the name of a multi-platform client for Lemmy?** [Lemmur](https://github.com/LemmurOrg/lemmur).
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-**Which two projects are developed by Framasoft?** Mobilizon and PeerTube.
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-**Which Linux distribution donated €10k in 2020 to fund live-streaming in PeerTube?** Debian.
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-**Which project wasn’t funded by a grant from NGI Zero (NLNet Foundation)?** WriteFreely. That's right, NLNet funded *the other five*, and we could list even more! Working on infrastructure software isn't very glamorous, so grants from NGI Zero really help move things forward.
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-**Which project received a $70k grant from Samsung NEXT in 2019?** [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/101468776092987214).
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-**In what city did the ActivityPub community conference happen in 2019?** Prague.
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-**Which project is not written in Go?** Lemmy 🦀
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-**Which project is written in Python?** Bookwyrm 🐍
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-**Which project is written in Elixir?** Mobilizon 💧
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-**When was ActivityPub standardized?** 2018. Can you believe it's been four years already?
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-**How was identi.ca software called at first?** Laconica.
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-**Initially, GNU Social was a set of plugins for…** StatusNet.
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-**What was the original name of the project now known as Hubzilla?** Redmatrix.
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-**What was the original name of the project now known as Friendica?** Mistpark.
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-preview: "On this day, twelve years ago, Mr. Evan Prodromou published his first post on Identi.ca. That project now belongs to history, but Fediverse lives on. Happy Birthday, Fedi!"
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-🎉 Happy 12th, Fediverse! 🎉
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-On this day, twelve years ago, Mr. Evan Prodromou published his [first post](https://web.archive.org/web/20130615111045/http://identi.ca/notice/1) on `Identi.ca`. Although that project now belongs to history, Fediverse lives on and by year 2020 it has become an incredibly creative, colourful and cozy place, with the potential to attract even more good people.
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-"Don't put all your eggs in one basket!"
-Credits: Fediverse logo authors: @drq and @nestort; mascot Fe-nix - idea suggested by @drq
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-Join the effort to spread the word about federated social networks, **celebrating the dozen years of hard work by many different people**: programmers, protocol architects, designers, system administrators, translators, alpha testers, moderators, community managers, and, of course, fedizens - the priceless users of our *(for now)* alternative social universe.
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-Have you learned something new in Fediverse? Have you met your IRL friends in it? Found a job? Lost a nerve? Spawned new life? Tracked down and fixed bugs? Had fun?
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-You can find some promotional materials in these [folders](https://codeberg.org/lostinlight/distributopia/src/branch/main/sticker-bay). Use them freely and don't forget to contribute any new materials you create.
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-🌟 **See you in Fedi!**
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-preview: "In 2021 Fediverse celebrates 13 years - an important milestone. Let's make this a tradition, to boost the spirit of unity and vibrant culture!"
-url: "/en/post/fediverse-13-2021-party-time"
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-authors: [{"name": "@lostinlight", "url": "https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone", "network": "mastodon"}, {"name": "Arnold Schrijver", "url": "https://mastodon.social/@humanetech", "network": "mastodon"}]
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-Happy 13th, Fediverse!
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-Last year Fediverse celebrated May 18th as an important, symbolic milestone to remember [how it all began](https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-12-years-in-2020). Let's make this a tradition and a day for friendly interactions, to boost the spirit of unity and vibrant culture!
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-**Note**: If you speak Catalan or Spanish, join the [online meeting](https://bbb.exo.cat/b/rit-vd9-fhv) of fedizens [dedicated](https://agora.fedi.cat/t/18-de-maig-fedianiversari/313) to this special day (from 19h30 to 21h30 UTC+2).
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-Credits: promo image - by @titi, CC BY-SA
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-If you have accounts on mainstream social networks, we suggest to turn this day into a chaotic **celebration of sci-fi and fantasy films, books and memes**! Find images from the films you like, add any text or quote to it and share! There's only one catch - it should include the word "Fediverse" somewhere. Again, we suggest adding the tag **#Fediverse13** in the text of your post, so that other users on those platforms can find and reshare your posts. But if you think these tags may become the reason of shadow bans (which might happen on networks that have an allergy to competition), never mind. The mysterious word "Fediverse" on your images should be enough to tickle the curiosity of your readers, and it's harder to shadow ban for text-on-image. If the plan works, people will go searching for this magic word, find our federating corner of the Internet and, hopefully, join to stay!
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-**PS.** In case you resolutely prefer genres other than fantasy / sci-fi - the more the better, let it be any you like!
-**PPS.** If our community manages to come up with nice and creative images, we may feature some of them on our [Crystal Ball](/en/crystalball) page, linking back to *Fedi accounts* of respective image authors. Of course, we shall search you out first and ask for a permission.
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-As more people discover federated networks, organizations slowly begin to acknowledge the existence of our alternative communication channels too and cautiously come to Fediverse to test the waters. Even the European Commission is interested and requested a 3-part [ActivityPub for Administrations](https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/ec-ngi0-liaison-webinars-and-workshop-april-2021/1539) event. Its goals were to raise the awareness about various Fediverse projects and encourage representatives to create their own accounts or servers, thus establishing a presence in the federating social web.
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-For all of us this means opportunity. A true reimagination of social networking, creating spaces where people are **united in diversity**. A place free of Big Tech dominance, where beautiful culture thrives. It's hard to give up old ways and try out something new, especially after investing so much time into traditional social media. Each platform a separate channel to maintain. On the Fediverse, no more of that! Imagine, if you could post only to Instagram, and people on Facebook, Twitter an other networks could see your posts. Integrated, and reachable from 1 account to interact with. We can do that in Fediverse where various networks are interconnected!
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-"Down with giants, up with open, self-governed communities!"
-Credits: Fediverse mascot characters - by their respective creators; illustration by @lostinlight, CC-BY, source
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-🌟 **See you in Fedi!**
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-date: 2022-05-18
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-preview: "Happy 14th Birthday, Fedi! May your popularity and success double in the future! We prepared a fun quiz for you. Take part and share your results"
-url: "/en/post/fediverse-14-years-in-2022"
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-authors: [{"name": "@lostinlight", "url": "https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone", "network": "mastodon"}, {"name": "@minoru", "url": "https://functional.cafe/@minoru", "network": "mastodon"}]
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-Happy 14th Birthday, Fedi! Teenage years are turbulent and always full of experiments. May your current popularity and success double in the nearest future!
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-Fediverse grew quite a bit over the last year. To all the new users - welcome! And to all the fedizens who’ve been with us for all these years - thank you!
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-To add a bit of playfulness to this day, we prepared a 🌟[fun little quiz](https://14th.fediverse.party)🌟 for you. The source code will be revealed in a few days; we don’t want to make it too easy to figure out the answers. :) Please share your scores, and add **#FediQuiz**, **#Fediverse14** or **#HappyFedi2U** hashtags for visibility.
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-Cheers,
-[Fediverse.party team](https://fediverse.party/en/about)
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-updated: 2018-11-16
-tags:
- - fediverse
-preview: "Have a look at this extensive glossary about Fediverse"
-url: "/en/post/fediverse-glossary"
-lang: en
-authors: [{"name": "@lostinlight", "url": "https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone", "network": "mastodon"}]
----
-
-Peter Gossner wrote an extensive Fediverse tech [glossary](https://tilde.town/%7Epetegozz/Fediverse_Glossary). Here's the **Dedication** excerpt:
-
- "For Artists and Hackers, Academics, and Admins.
- For Humans who Grok stuff. Those self taught, and persistent.
- For those who build for Us: Tools to own and run.
- For People in Community: Who will not be a Commodity,
- For Our Internet, And all who sail on her.
- Useful may it be. Save time may it much".
-
-This is the right time to notice that *fediverse.party* is looking for authors! Anyone who would like to write about federated social platforms in a simple, user-friendly way, please, see the [issue](https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/issues/4) for details. One-time contributions, series of posts, a best-seller book about Fediverse... You name it. Fediverse Chronicles are waiting for you!
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-layout: "post"
-title: "Fediverse in 2019"
-date: 2020-01-05
-updated: 2020-01-05
-tags:
- - fediverse
-preview: "Here's an overview of major events, new projects, issues and achievements in Fediverse 2019. You'll also find out about one important change on this website!"
-url: "/en/post/fediverse-in-2019"
-lang: en
-banner: "banner.jpg"
-authors: [{"name": "@lostinlight", "url": "https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone", "network": "mastodon"}]
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-
-**Happy 2020, fedizens!**
-
-Storm of applause 👏 for all long-time Fediverse supporters, and a warm welcome 👍 to every new user who found Fediverse in 2019.
-
-
-
-Here's what happened to our small corner of the Internet in the past year.
-
-### Fediverse in numbers
-
-In 2019 the reachable Fediverse grew from 3.986 instances to 5.027 - that's roughly 🎉 1.000 new servers online.
-
-The number of registered accounts increased from 2.500.000 users to roughly 4.300.000 - about 🎉 1.800.000 newcomers explored Fediverse networks!
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-
-Five networks growing most rapidly in *online* server numbers in 2019 were:
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-
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-Three other Fediverse platforms that expanded significantly in 2019:
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-• [Misskey](/en/misskey) 🎉 +37 servers
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-• [Plume](https://joinplu.me) 🎉 +23 servers
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-• [Funkwhale](/en/funkwhale) 🎉 +15 servers
-
-
-*Please, note: these numbers are an approximation based on statistics voluntarily provided by server administrators. Highly volatile (servers go offline / online every day), the numbers reflect only part of Fediverse at a given period of time (today!).*
-
-### Fediverse in projects
-
-At least 9 new networks expressed a wish to become part of Fediverse!
-
-🌟 [Mobilizon](https://joinmobilizon.org/en) - a network to gather, organize, and mobilize
-
-🌟 [Epicyon](https://gitlab.com/bashrc2/epicyon) - ActivityPub server written in Python, for low-powered hardware
-
-🌟 [Honk](https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk/f) - Go ActivityPub server focused on minimal setup and support costs
-
-🌟 [Lemmy](https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy) - a federated alternative to Reddit in Rust
-
-🌟 [Gancio](https://gancio.org) - a shared agenda for local communities, supports ActivityPub
-
-🌟 [Guppe](https://github.com/wmurphyrd/guppe) - project adds "groups" support: group-type actors forward posts to group members
-
-🌟 [Kanzaki](https://github.com/KnzkDev/kanzaki) - ActivityPub-speaking server in OCaml
-
-🌟 [Smithereen](https://the-federation.info/smithereen) - VKontakte-like social network written in Java
-
-🌟 [MoonTreeProject](https://github.com/Faleidel/moontreeproject) - link aggregator, a work in progress
-
-
-
-→ For a full list of Fediverse projects in development see [Miscellaneous](https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous) page.
-
-#### Project forks:
-• [Hometown](https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki) - a Mastodon fork that includes some unique features
-
-• [Dolphin](https://github.com/syuilo/dolphin) - single user microblogging server, sister project to Misskey
-
-• [Groundpolis](https://github.com/Groundpolis/Groundpolis) - microblogging network based on Misskey
-
-#### Related new projects:
-• [ForgeFed](https://forgefed.peers.community): an upcoming federation protocol, built as an extension to ActivityPub, for interoperability between version control services
-
-### Fediverse 2019 timeline
-
-✔ `January:` Mastodon [receives](https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/101468776092987214) a Samsung Stack Zero grant
-
-✔ `January:` [Friendica](/en/friendica) successfully adopts ActivityPub protocol
-
-✔ `February:` Google [writes code](https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/tree/master/extensions/data-transfer/portability-data-transfer-mastodon) for [Mastodon](/en/mastodon)
-
-✔ `March:` [Pleroma](/en/pleroma) has its first stable release
-
-✔ `March:` [Socialhome](/en/socialhome) adds ActivityPub federation
-
-✔ `April:` [WriteFreely](https://writefreely.org) [searches](https://writing.exchange/@write_as/101965472625104146) for new developers on a contract basis, becoming a Fediverse project that creates FOSS jobs
-
-✔ `May:` Fediverse has a 🐣 Birthday, technically - [11 years](https://social.diekershoff.de/display/f3ad7b1c-145c-e10f-1e74-b7b177306491) and counting. Happy Birthday, Fedi!
-
-✔ `July:` Hubzilla community announces a [call for participation](https://www.w3.org/community/zot) to standardize the Zot protocol used in [Hubzilla](/en/hubzilla) software
-
-✔ `July:` [Pixelfed](/en/pixelfed) starts federating with other Fedi networks. A long awaited update
-
-✔ `August:` [ActivityPub](https://activitypub.rocks) conference in Prague - 💡 watch the [videos](https://conf.tube/videos/watch/c81c92cd-b023-4a32-966c-bb2233e35483)
-
-✔ `October:` [Framasoft](https://framasoft.org) releases the first beta version of [Mobilizon](https://joinmobilizon.org/en)
-
-✔ `November:` [GNU Social](https://gnu.io/social) tests federation over ActivityPub
-
-✔ `November:` Pixelfed [gets](https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/103150844633581004) a grant from [NLnet](https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10795-ngi_zero_a_treasure_trove_of_it_innovation)
-
-✔ `November:` Indian users massively [leave Twitter for Mastodon](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50343054)
-
-✔ `November:` Well-known activist [Aral Balkan](https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/103160984750213569) speaks at the European Parliament about the future of Internet regulation and the role of Fediverse platforms - 💡 watch the [video](https://video.lqdn.fr/videos/watch/70f2128c-8c06-4cc4-8a5a-bf77e765c8fd)
-
-✔ `December:` [Funkwhale](/en/funkwhale) starts federating with Mastodon
-
-✔ `December:` users from Scotland massively [join](https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/103342378878530973) Mastodon (popular hashtag: #TwitterExodusScotland)
-
-✔ `December:` mass Spanish speakers [migration](https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/103392704334848972) from Twitter to Mastodon (popular hashtag: #YoMigroAMastodon)
-
-### Things to happen in 2020
-
-• *Fediverse Conference* in Barcelona
-
-• *Spoiler* from the future: millions of people discovering Fediverse networks and migrating from centralized silos. Be prepared!
-
-### Issues to be resolved in 2020
-
-One of the main goals of federating software is decentralizing the web. That requires many Fediverse servers each having a small number of users, hosting data in physically decentralized manner. That's the ideal, a perfect image.
-
-
-
-But in real world most people register on large Fediverse servers with thousands of users: they're popular, more stable and reliable, their friends are there. And server administrators tend to choose large, well-known hosting solutions: they're cheaper, more stable and reliable. This leads to a situation where 80% of total users are all crowded on 10 large ("flagship") instances, and 40% of all servers are hosted mainly by 5 companies.
-
-
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-Most used providers 2019:
-
-
-
-The situation hasn't changed much since 2018 Leah's [research](https://chaos.social/@leah/99837391793032137) on server distribution. Will something change in 2020?
-
-### Fediverse.party news:
-
-The **fediverse.party** website changed its home! Our code can now be found on GitLab hosted by 👍 Feneas, a non-for-profit association registered in Finland and run by humans who care about federated web projects.
-
-We invite all authors who would like to submit an article to **fediverse.party**. Are you developing a Fediverse project? Tell everyone about it! Do you write about complicated things in a simple, user-friendly language? This website's main audience are newcomers to Fediverse who may have no technical background, they will appreciate your explanatory skills. Are you a researcher of Fediverse software ready to comment on its strengths and weaknesses? Please, share your expertize! Here're the [guidelines](https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/src/branch/main/GUIDELINES.md) for submitting an article.
-
-**P/s** Fediverse is 99% run by volunteers who spend their own money to keep the network going. If you enjoy being on Fediverse, please, consider sponsoring your own local server or donating to Fediverse project you most often use.
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-layout: "post"
-title: "Fediverse in 2020"
-date: 2021-01-02
-updated: 2021-01-02
-tags:
- - fediverse
-preview: "One more year in Fediverse passed. Let's have a look at what we have achieved, new projects that appeared and things that happened in 2020"
-url: "/en/post/fediverse-in-2020"
-lang: en
-banner: "banner.jpg"
-authors: [{"name": "@lostinlight", "url": "https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone", "network": "mastodon"}]
----
-
-**Happy 2021, fedizens!**
-
-One more year in Fediverse passed. Let's have a look at what we have achieved in 2020.
-
-### Fediverse in numbers
-
-The number of servers grew from 5.027 last year to ~5.900 by the end of 2020. That's about 900 new instances.
-
-The number of registered users, on the other hand, has decreased and by the end of the year remains slightly above 4.000.000. This may be due to the fact that several large servers went down during the year, and because some administrators periodically remove long inactive accounts to free up space for newcomers.
-
-Whatever the reason, we may rejoice that more small instances keep appearing. That's what Fediverse is supposed to be doing – decentralizing!
-
-Seven networks growing most rapidly in *online* server numbers in 2020 were:
-
-• [PeerTube](/en/peertube) 🎉 +320 servers
-
-• [Mastodon](/en/mastodon) 🎉 +237 servers
-
-• [Pleroma](/en/pleroma) 🎉 +224 servers
-
-• [WriteFreely](https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely) 🎉 +74 servers
-
-• [Misskey](/en/misskey) 🎉 +58 servers
-
-• [Mobilizon](https://framagit.org/framasoft/mobilizon) 🎉 +45 servers
-
-• [Pixelfed](/en/pixelfed) 🎉 +40 servers
-
-*Note: these numbers are an approximation based on statistics voluntarily provided by server administrators. Servers go offline / online every hour, every day, so the numbers reflect only part of Fediverse at the time this article was published.*
-
-
-Credits: picture is based on an image from Pixabay.com
-
-### Fediverse in projects
-
-At least 16 new projects joined Fediverse in 2020!
-
-🌟 [Bonfire](https://gitlab.com/bonfire-ecosystem/activitypub) – a plug & play federated social network based on CommonsPub
-
-🌟 [Bookwyrm](https://github.com/mouse-reeve/bookwyrm) – social reading and reviewing, a federated alternative to GoodReads
-
-🌟 [The Occasion Octopus](https://github.com/theoccasionoctopus/theoccasionoctopus-server) – a federated network of Open Data for discovering interesting events
-
-🌟 [OLKi](https://framagit.org/synalp/olki/olki) – linguistic corpora exchange platform, a simple gateway to Fediverse for scientific interaction
-
-🌟 [Immers Space](https://github.com/immers-space/immers) – a virtual reality metaverse platform powered by Mozilla Hubs and ActivityPub-Express
-
-🌟 [Lotide](https://git.sr.ht/~vpzom/lotide) – a federated forum / link aggregator
-
-🌟 [Tavern](https://gitlab.com/ngerakines/tavern) – a minimalistic ActivityPub server
-
-🌟 [Learn Awesome](https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn) – a review aggregation site generalized to all learning resources organized by topics, formats and difficulty
-
-🌟 [OpenEngiadina](https://gitlab.com/openengiadina) – a knowledge base and a social network using ActivityPub and the Semantic Web
-
-🌟 [Gathio](https://github.com/lowercasename/gathio) – self-destructing, shareable, no-registration event pages
-
-🌟 [SemApps](https://github.com/assemblee-virtuelle/semapps) – a collaborative, generic knowledge management system for easing data storage and filtering
-
-🌟 [FlockingBird](https://github.com/flockingbird/roost) – network for professionals, a LinkedIn alternative
-
-🌟 [SkoHub](https://github.com/hbz/skohub-pubsub) – a publication / subscription infrastructure for Open Educational Resources; allows to follow specific subjects and be notified when new content is published
-
-🌟 [Reedlebee](https://gitlab.com/Alamantus/Readlebee) – a viable Goodreads alternative; book reading progress, lists, reviews, comments, and more
-
-🌟 [LubarGW2](https://git.lubar.me/ben/guild-website) – federating guild website using GuildWars2 API
-
-🌟 [XWiki Extension](https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/application-activitypub) – an implementation of the ActivityPub for XWiki
-
-→ For a full list of Fediverse projects in development see [Miscellaneous](https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous) page.
-
-#### Related new projects:
-• [SepiaSearch](https://sepiasearch.org) – search engine for PeerTube
-
-### Fediverse 2020 timeline
-
-✔ `January 6:` [Smithereen](https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen) [open sources](https://mastodon.social/@grishka/103438618708499923) its codebase
-
-✔ `January 23:` [ForgeFed](https://notabug.org/peers/forgefed) [gets funded](https://floss.social/@forgefed/103533724144234293) by NGI Zero Discovery Fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Comission's Next Generation Internet program
-
-✔ `January 30:` [Funkwhale](https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale) [receives funding](https://governance.funkwhale.audio/d/QyEBOaV6/status-of-our-nlnet-funding) from NGI Zero (NLnet)
-
-✔ `February:` Simon Urli [announces](https://forum.xwiki.org/t/new-application-activitypub/6186) plans to add ActivityPub to XWiki, an open-source Wiki platform; receives funding from NGI Zero (NLNet)
-
-✔ `March:` Pleroma introduces federated emoji reactions in [its 2.0 release](https://pleroma.social/blog/2020/03/08/releasing-pleroma-2-0-0)
-
-✔ `March:` Friendica [adds](https://github.com/friendica/friendica/releases/tag/2020.03) custom profile fields, support for ActivityPub relays, and starts federating with Funkwhale
-
-✔ `April:` The French ministry deploys about 35 PeerTube instances, creating a vast platform of educational videos without tracking and advertisements
-
-✔ `April 7:` New project OpenEngiadina [joins the scene](https://chaos.social/@pukkamustard/103956215440029088). The project was supported by NGI Zero (NLnet)
-
-✔ `May:` Mastodon's creator [announces](https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104276611260547358 ) that some progress has been made on adding end-to-end encryption for direct messages in Mastodon. By the end of 2020, this is a work in progress
-
-✔ `May 16:` PixelDroid, an Android client for Pixelfed, [prepares](https://fosstodon.org/@PixelDroid/104179203678066343) for an alpha release
-
-✔ `May 18:` Fediverse 🐣 [celebrates its 12 birthday](https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone/104188129431867733)
-
-✔ `June 23:` [Lemmy](https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy) project [is funded](https://lemmy.ml/post/35293) by NGI Zero (NLnet)
-
-✔ `July 23:` [Masto.host](https://masto.host), the biggest provider for Mastodon, [experiences a major DDoS attack](https://mastodon.social/@mastohost/104564561004649620)
-
-✔ `August:` Google [threatens](https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818) to remove several popular Fediverse apps from Google Play on the pretext that servers in Fediverse engage in hate speech and users can be exposed to it via these apps. Fedilab, a popular multi-purpose Fediverse app, receives Google warning too. This brings a wave of rage from users who
-blame Google for double standards and demand to also ban Twitter apps and Chrome, as all of them expose users to hate speech. Heated discussions on HackerNews, Reddit and other tech outlets follow
-
-✔ `August 28:` Pleroma introduces ActivityPub chats [in 2.1.0 release](https://pleroma.social/blog/2020/08/28/releasing-pleroma-2-1-0)
-
-✔ `September 09:` Funkwhale releases [first stable version](https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/-/tags/1.0)
-
-✔ `September 15:` Mario Vavti, [Hubzilla](/en/hubzilla) core developer, achieves a grant from NGIZero (NLnet)
-
-✔ `September 22:` Framasoft [introduces](https://framapiaf.org/@Framasoft/104907393254321391) [SepiaSearch](https://sepiasearch.org) - a search engine to help discover videos and channels on PeerTube
-
-✔ `September 30:` [Pixelcat](https://github.com/pixelcatapp/Pixelcat), Android client for Pixelfed, Mastodon and Pleroma, gets traction
-
-✔ `October:` 👍 Debian [donates](https://bits.debian.org/2020/10/debian-donation-peertube.html) 10.000 Euros to fund free and decentralized live-streaming in PeerTube
-
-✔ `October 2-5th:` A conference about the present and future of ActivityPub takes place
-in Barcelona. 💡 Watch the [talks](https://conf.tube/video-channels/apconf_channel/videos)
-
-✔ `October 3:` SepiaSearch is now [integrated in Searx](https://github.com/searx/searx/pull/2227#event-3836474770)
-
-✔ `October 20:` Lemmy starts federating via ActivityPub
-
-✔ `October 27:` [Mobilizon](https://framablog.org/2020/10/27/mobilizon-your-events-your-groups-your-data) stable version 1.0 and a [guided tour](https://framablog.org/2020/10/27/photo-novel-guided-tour-of-mobilizon) of the project are released
-
-✔ `November:` Streaming [is coming](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/pull/3250) to PeerTube, a feature awaited by many
-
-✔ `November 18:` Funkwhale is [looking for new maintainers](https://blog.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale-is-looking-for-new-maintainers.html)
-
-✔ `December 25:` Socialhome project [adds](https://jasonrobinson.me/content/9db6bef7-e001-4de1-960a-6a24b59e5609) alpha support for Matrix
-
-✔ `December:` An ActivityPub conference happens during rC3, 💡 watch the talk about [Funkwhale](https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-520410-funkwhale_and_the_importance_of_decentralized_podcasting).
-
-Is any important 2020 event missing? Feel free to suggest it in [issues](https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/issues) or send a suggestion in a [direct message](https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone).
-
-*Fediverse is mostly run by volunteers who spend their own money to keep the network going. If you enjoy being on Fediverse, please, consider sponsoring your own local server or donating to Fedi project you most often use.*
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-layout: "post"
-title: "Fediverse in 2021"
-date: 2022-01-05
-updated: 2022-01-05
-tags:
- - fediverse
-preview: "Buckle your seatbelts and lets travel back in time. Let us watch the progress of glorious Fediverse in the past year"
-url: "/en/post/fediverse-in-2021"
-lang: en
-banner: "banner.jpg"
-authors: [{"name": "@lostinlight", "url": "https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone", "network": "mastodon"}]
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-
-**Happy 2022, fedizens!**
-
-At the end of each year we traditionally compile a digest of what's happened in Fediverse (beginning with [2019](https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-in-2019) and [2020](https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-in-2020)).
-
-So, buckle your seatbelts and lets travel back in time. Let us watch the progress of glorious Fediverse in the past year.
-
-
-Credits: image from Pixabay
-
-### Fediverse in numbers
-
-In 2021 Fediverse expanded from 5.027 to 7.744 known servers. That's about +2.700 nodes! An impressive growth, compared to previous couple of years that showed a stable trend of 900-1.000 new servers a year.
-
-In June *fediverse.party* started counting Plume, Lemmy and Mobilizon in yearly statistics. They account for only 222 servers though, so the rest of the statistics spike definitely indicates that Fediverse is growing! By the way, we [launched](https://nodes.fediverse.party) our own Fediverse crawler in November, to make sure that these numbers are as accurate as possible.
-
-
-Credits: pie chart by Minoru
-
-The ammount of registered accounts went back up to 2019 levels and by the end of 2021 slightly surpassed that benchmark, reaching ~4.500.000.
-
-We, fedizens, know that numbers aren't the most important thing in the world. But grown-ups like numbers.
-
-
-Credits: image by Devran Topallar, Pixabay license
-
-So let's mention that, despite smaller userbase, Fediverse is showing its true potential for free open source projects: those developers who officially join our corner of the Internet [enjoy higher follower numbers](https://mastodon.online/@FediFollows/106647703394010040) than on centralized social networks. \O/
-
-Seven networks growing most rapidly in online servers in 2021 were:
-
-• Misskey 🎉 ~ quadrupled server numbers (+220)
-
-• PeerTube 🎉 ~ tripled server numbers (+760)
-
-• Funkwhale 🎉 ~ tripled server numbers (+83)
-
-• Pleroma 🎉 ~ doubled server numbers (+483)
-
-• WriteFreely 🎉 ~ doubled server numbers (+180)
-
-• Pixelfed 🎉 ~ doubled server numbers (+106)
-
-• Mastodon 🎉 ~ +28% (+792)
-
-*Note: these numbers are an approximation based on statistics voluntarily provided by server administrators. Servers go offline / online every hour, every day, so the numbers reflect only part of Fediverse at the time this article was published.*
-
-### Fediverse in projects
-
-At least 12 new projects joined Fediverse in 2021!
-
-🌟 [GoToSocial](https://github.com/gotosocial/gotosocial) – social network server written in Golang
-
-🌟 [Owncast](https://github.com/owncast/owncast) – self-hosted live streaming platform
-
-🌟 [Castopod](https://code.podlibre.org/podlibre/castopod) – open-source platform made for podcasters who want to engage and interact with their audience
-
-🌟 [Inventaire](https://github.com/inventaire/inventaire) – platform for cataloguing and sharing physical books from personal collections and independent libraries
-
-🌟 [GoBlog](https://git.jlel.se/jlelse/GoBlog) – simple blogging system written in Go
-
-🌟 [bopwiki](https://codeberg.org/Valenoern/bopwiki) – simple "microwiki" implementation, fairly similar to the Zettelkasten system
-
-🌟 [Wolfgame](https://gitlab.com/stemid/wolfgame) – a game akin to Mafia; once started, it simulates a day/night cycle and allows players to vote on who might be a werewolf during the day
-
-🌟 [Dharma](https://github.com/cjslep/dharma) – federated community-building platform for Eve Online corporations
-
-🌟 [lectrn](https://github.com/lectrn/lectrn) – social network for humans that is free, decentralized, open, and easy to use
-
-🌟 [Catcast-D](https://github.com/mrcatman/catcast-d) – federated video live streaming platform
-
-🌟 [FChannel](https://github.com/FChannel0/FChannel-Server) – libre, self-hostable imageboard platform that utilizes ActivityPub
-
-🌟 [hvxahv](https://github.com/disism/hvxahv) – multifunctional decentralized social network implementation
-
-→ For the full list of Fediverse projects in development see [Miscellaneous](https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous) page.
-
-#### Project forks:
-🥄 [Ecko](https://github.com/magicstone-dev/ecko) – fork of Mastodon to optimize toward community, that is making it as easy as possible to contribute
-
-🥄 [Acropolis](https://github.com/magicstone-dev/acropolis) – fork of diaspora that's making it as easy as possible to contribute
-
-#### New extensions:
-💎 [Group Actor](https://git.ondrovo.com/MightyPork/group-actor) – groups work with any software that implements Mastodon client API; has moderation, admin announcements
-
-### Fediverse ecosystem
-
-In July Inexcode] relaunched [fediverse.space](https://fediverse.space) - a beautiful project that has previously been developed by Tao Bojlén and that got a second life thanks to its codebase being open source! In November [Minoru](https://functional.cafe/@minoru) open sourced Fediverse [nodes list](https://nodes.fediverse.party) to help public statistics hubs and to empower new ecosystem developments! And by the end of the year, [Fediverse Wiki](https://joinfediverse.wiki) project was launched.
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-
-Credits: background image by Alex Antropov, Pixabay license
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-*Let's make even more useful, quality projects around Fedi!* And, please, may they not rely on avoidable 3rd-party dependencies, like Google Fonts, Cloudflare and other centralized trackers.
-
-More and more official institutions are moving towards FOSS and Fediverse:
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-• In 2021 [Noyb.eu](https://mastodon.social/@noybeu) officially established its presence (for the second time:);
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-• Museums explore federated networks: [Beeld en Geluid](https://peertube.beeldengeluid.nl/accounts/nisv), the Netherlands Sound & Vision museum installed their own PeerTube server; European [Institute for Contemporary Art and Science](https://mastodon.art/@EICAS) opened a Mastodon account;
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-• New accounts of German [politicians](https://bonn.social/@gerald_leppert/107513082220761369) keep popping up;
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-• Universities are [joining](https://bonn.social/@gerald_leppert/107005341603648305) federated networks too.
-
-There have also been ideas to set up an official Fediverse foundation, a legal entity to provide extra opportunities for contributors who want to work on improving Fediverse. [Arnold Schrijver](https://mastodon.social/@humanetech) has been working on [fedi.foundation](https://fedi.foundation). Would you like to be part of this initiative? Join the discussion!
-
-### Fediverse 2021 timeline
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-`✔ January 7:` PeerTube version 3 [is out](https://framablog.org/2021/01/07/peertube-v3-its-a-live-a-liiiiive), complete with live streaming feature and a behind-the-scenes 💡 [short film](https://framatube.org/w/hrg4zLAhJZ371toka596nS)
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-`✔ January 17:` Lemmur, a mobile client for [Lemmy](https://join-lemmy.org), has its [first release](https://mastodon.social/@LemmyDev/105569027196868015)
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-`✔ February:` [Pleroma](https://pleroma.social) surpasses the 1.000 servers milestone
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-`✔ March 10:` a wave of new users [migrates](https://mastodon.ml/@drq/105924843364764170) into the Russian constellation of Fediverse
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-`✔ April:` [NGI Zero](https://mastodon.xyz/@NGIZero/106103511651729574) [organize](https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/pub/ec-ngi0-liaison-webinars-and-workshop-april-2021) a series of webinars and workshops called ["ActivityPub for Administrations"](https://conf.tube/videos/watch/9bb55418-5a0d-4bcd-8d41-f2dab5d531c4)
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-`✔ April 2:` [Castopod](https://code.podlibre.org/podlibre/castopod), a platform for podcasters, [joins Fediverse](https://podlibre.social/@Castopod/105996916094868535)
-
-`✔ April 18:` diaspora* [releases](https://blog.diasporafoundation.org/68-diaspora-version-0-7-15-0-released) a new minor version. Jonne Haß , one of the core team members, continues work on [a new native app for Android and iOS](https://github.com/jhass/insporation) – you can already help with translations and beta test it (the app will work for pods running the develop branch v0.7.99.0 where the API is available)
-
-`✔ May:` Fediverse holds its very own [Fedivision](https://octodon.social/@TQ/106290491235663905) song contest
-
-`✔ May 17:` Tusky, a popular Fediverse mobile app, is [temporarily removed](https://chaos.social/@ConnyDuck/105904002285019275) from Google Play Store, because Google doesn't understand decentralization. Users who'd downloaded it on FDroid weren't affected. Google had already threatened to remove Fediverse apps [in 2020](https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818), so this is becoming a nice yearly tradition.
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-`✔ May 18:` Fediverse 🐣 celebrates its [13 birthday](https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-13-2021-party-time)
-
-`✔ May 26:` [Smithereen](https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen), a project offering the look and features similar to Vkontakte, makes its first [beta release](https://mastodon.social/@grishka/106300451824058197)
-
-`✔ June:` [Owncast](https://owncast.online) is [awarded](https://gabekangas.com/blog/2021/06/an-exciting-update-about-owncast/) a grant by the NLnet Foundation to support work around federation and ActivityPub
-
-`✔ June:` PeerTube [surpasses](https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone/106427846161851475) the 1.000 servers milestone and becomes second most popular ActivityPub project by node count (after Mastodon)
-
-`✔ July 5:` [WriteFreely](https://writefreely.org), a blogging Fediverse platform, shares an up-to-date [roadmap](https://musing.studio/roadmap) for the next 6 months
-
-`✔ July 18:` GNU Social maintainers release a long-awaited [version 2.0](https://notabug.org/diogo/gnu-social/releases) with ActivityPub support, and later publish some [updates and plans](https://www.gnusocial.rocks/v3/updates-interface-and-accessibility.html) for version 3
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-`✔ August 4:` [Bookwyrm](https://github.com/mouse-reeve/bookwyrm), a social reading and reviewing platform, [gets](https://tech.lgbt/@bookwyrm/106698707975867854) an [official website](https://joinbookwyrm.com)
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-`✔ August 8:` Pleroma 2.4.0 is [released](https://pleroma.social/announcements/2021/08/08/pleroma-major-release-2-4-0), featuring many fixes, additions and improvements
-
-`✔ August 13:` Mastodon is registered as a [non-profit organization](https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/08/mastodon-now-a-non-profit-organisation)
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-`✔ September:` Fedi stats hub Poduptime gets re-branded and becomes [Fediverse.observer](https://fediverse.observer)
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-`✔ September 1:` first [Owncast](https://github.com/owncast/owncast) tests of federation over ActivityPub
-
-`✔ September:` Facebook is [caught](https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone/106899005772803939) following Twitter's practice and [flagging](https://octodon.social/@yhancik/106897948169079191) posts with links to certain Fediverse related websites
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-`✔ September 8:` Pixelfed's latest [stable release](https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/releases/tag/v0.11.1) adds media licenses, federated stories and improved mod and admin tools
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-`✔ September 25:` Friendica ["Siberian Iris"](https://github.com/friendica/friendica/releases/tag/2021.09) is out, with scheduled postings, better notification system and admin panel improvements
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-`✔ September 28:` [Gitea](https://gitea.io), a community-maintained Git project, adds NodeInfo support, getting one step closer to ActivityPub federation between code forges
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-`✔ September 28:` [Funkwhale's](https://funkwhale.audio) official Android app [becomes available](https://f-droid.org/packages/audio.funkwhale.ffa/) on FDroid.
-
-`✔ November:` Mastodon fork Truth.Social, [associated](https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/trumps-new-social-media-platform-found-using-mastodon-code/) with the former president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, [is open sourced](https://floss.social/@josias/107334378568468729) after [pressure](https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/107185524424634325) from the maintainers of Mastodon
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-`✔ November 9:` Hubzilla [introduces](https://framagit.org/hubzilla/core/-/tags/6.4) version 6.4 that improves file upload performance and all-in-one channel cloning via network
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-`✔ November 13:` GoToSocial project makes its first beta [release](https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.1.0)
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-`✔ November 13:` Lemmur ([Lemmy](https://join-lemmy.org) client) [receives](https://lemmy.ml/post/89061) funding from [NGIZero](https://mastodon.xyz/@NGIZero) NLnet foundation
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-`✔ November 14:` Lemmy [starts federating](https://lemmy.ml/post/89740) with several other Fedi projects
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-`✔ November 21:` diaspora* core team reveales its [short-term plans](https://blog.diasporafoundation.org/70-a-big-hey-from-diaspora) for the future
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-`✔ November 22:` FedeProxy, a project that will allow code forges to interoperate, gets [rebranded](https://mastodon.online/@dachary/107319992161222471) to [ForgeFriends](https://forgefriends.org). Earlier this year developers behind the project got a grant from NGI DAPSI
-
-`✔ November 23:` [Mobilizon](https://joinmobilizon.org/en) releases [version 2](https://framablog.org/2021/11/23/mobilizon-v2-now-matured-like-a-good-french-wine) with many tweaks and improvements
-
-`✔ November 30:` PeerTube version 4 [is out](https://framablog.org/2021/11/30/peertube-v4-more-power-to-help-you-present-your-videos), bringing advanced filter features that improve moderation and administration
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-`✔ December 6:` [Bonfire](https://github.com/bonfire-networks) team who are working on customizable ActivityPub software share their new beautiful [website](https://bonfirenetworks.org) communicating the vision and the motivations behind the project
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-`✔ December 7:` [Inventaire](https://github.com/inventaire/inventaire) [becomes](https://mamot.fr/@inventaire/107405333892235843) part of Fediverse
-
-`✔ December 26:` [Bonfire](https://github.com/bonfire-networks) is [awarded](https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire_cos/) a grant from the Culture of Solidarity Fund to support cross-border cultural initiatives of solidarity in times of uncertainty and "infodemic"
-
-
-*Is any important 2021 event missing? Feel free to suggest it in [issues](https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/issues) or send a suggestion in a [direct message](https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone)*.
-
-### Fediverse.party news
-
-Feneas, the organization hosting this website and its repository, may soon [shut down](https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/issues/46). This is sad news. Huge thanks to all the Feneas team, and personally to Jason Robinson and Lukas Matt, for your work, for always being patient and helpful. Good luck in all your future endeavours!
-
-*Fediverse.party* is in search of a new home. It would be nice to move to another GitLab instance. But, as stability and reliability are more important than certain software, we'll most likely migrate to Codeberg. Let's wait and see how it works out.
-
-Move slow and build things to last! Here's to another great year. 🎉
-
-*Fediverse is mostly run by volunteers who spend their own money to keep the network going. If you enjoy being on Fediverse, please, consider sponsoring your own local server or donating to Fedi project you most often use.*
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-layout: "post"
-title: "Contributors wanted (updated)"
-date: 2018-06-21
-updated: 2018-06-21
-tags:
- - fediverse
-preview: "Anyone who knows Python / VueJS or wants to learn those is very welcome to join and help improve The-Federation.Info stats"
-url: "/en/post/fediverse-info-contributors-wanted"
-lang: en
-authors: [{"name": "@lostinlight", "url": "https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone", "network": "mastodon"}]
----
-
-Now that The-Federation.Info includes diaspora, OStatus and ActivityPub powered networks, it's the time to join and help squashing bugs and resolving [issues](https://github.com/thefederationinfo/the-federation.info/issues). If you know someone fluent in Python / VueJS or someone who wants to learn those, please, spread the word that they are very welcome to join the project and will get initial help to start contributing. Thanks!
-
-Initial call for contributors was published [here](https://socialhome.network/content/1092839/organization-news-the-federation-info-is-now).
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-layout: "post"
-title: "Fediverse parties on (links updated)"
-date: 2019-03-14
-updated: 2019-03-14
-tags:
- - fediverse
-preview: "Have the Chronicles run out of news? No way! Here's an update of Fediverse affairs and future plans"
-url: "/en/post/fediverse-parties-on"
-lang: en
-authors: [{"name": "@lostinlight", "url": "https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone", "network": "mastodon"}]
----
-
-Hey, fedizens!
-
-You may have noticed not a post has been published in the Chronicles since the end of 2018. Has Fediverse run out of news? Certainly not. Here's a brief overview of what has happened during this period.
-
-### Dull figures
-
-The 2018 report (update: link not available anymore) reveals that the world of federating networks has greatly expanded. The first three months of 2019 have seen about 450 new servers - hopefully, some of them will stay online (and updated). New accounts are being created and, apparenty, people remember about their old accounts, as the number of active users on most Fediverse networks increases weekly. If you wish to research figures, subscribe to [Federation stats bot](https://socialhome.network/u/thefederation) via any diaspora protocol platform ([diaspora](https://diasporafoundation.org), [Friendica](https://friendi.ca), [Hubzilla](https://hubzilla.org) or [Socialhome](https://socialhome.network)). Provided numbers are an approximation, and some projects are misrepresented: Friendica, Hubzilla real server numbers, GNU Social account numbers stand higher than metrics show. This is due to technical issues (mainly with [NodeInfo](https://github.com/jhass/nodeinfo) / [NodeInfo2](https://github.com/jaywink/nodeinfo2)), and because some servers opt out of taking part in statistics. The good news is Fediverse keeps growing!
-
-### New kids on the block
-
-[ActivityPub](https://activitypub.rocks) protocol stirred up many developers. Not a month passes now without a new federating project. The young blood of 2019 are [Mobilizon](https://joinmobilizon.org) and [Smilodon](https://gitlab.com/tuxcrafting/smilodon). Fediverse developing software and related tools are all listed [here](https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous). There's also a [Wiki](https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/wiki/?action=_pages).
-
-At the same time several projects are being abandoned. Osada is one of those - the lead developer announced that the software won't get any future updates. The world of OStatus federating projects (GNU Social, postActiv) has also been quiet for a long while.
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-Among older projects [Pleroma](https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/tags), a lightweight microblogging network, has recently had its first stable release.
-
-A fine end to the year 2018, diaspora project got an [API](https://www.nequalsonelifestyle.com/2018/12/29/diaspora-api-first-transactions-ever-authentication). It's still a work in progress, with luck we'll see more diaspora-related applications this year.
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-Not everyone is excited about ActivityPub protocol. Diaspora developer shared [final thoughts](https://schub.io/blog/2019/01/13/activitypub-final-thoughts-one-year-later.html) on the topic. Pleroma has implemented its own LitePub protocol version. Nevertheless, the majority of Fediverse new apps support federation over ActivityPub, and there's a [forum](https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks) where developers meet to discuss things.
-
-### Unexpecto patronum
-
-In other news, Mastodon project received a Stack Zero grant from Samsung Next and was definitely noticed by [Google](https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/tree/master/extensions/data-transfer/portability-data-transfer-mastodon), [Keybase](https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/10013) and the Meet group corporation.
-
-Friendica now has a mascot! Its name is Flaxy O'Hare. 🐰
-
-
-
-### Fediverse.Party update
-
-Initially this website was created as a guide for newcomers to Fediverse, a modern source of information one can use as a reference. As federating projects multiply, it becomes tricky to cover all the things happening in each project's community. On the other hand, all recent posts published here were release notes. Newcomers to Fediverse most likely find it boring to read interpetations of technical feature additions. And seasoned fedizens keep track of new releases by following project's official announcements. Or one can follow a [bot](https://venera.social/dfrn_poll/releases) aggregating all releases via RSS - also available directly from Fediverse (*releases@venera.social*) and best formated in diaspora protocol networks; following the bot from Mastodon not recommended because of the way Mastodon handles articles with titles.
-
-For reasons stated above there will be no more posts about software releases. The primary focus will be keeping the main website information up-to-date and publishing long-form articles about federating world, comparing its software, exploring its strengths (and weaknesses). Perhaps we'll regularly cover what's new in Fediverse - that's still to be decided by our (rather small) team.
-
-__Happy decentralizing!__
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-layout: "post"
-title: "Fediverse.Party turns 5"
-date: 2022-11-26
-updated: 2022-11-26
-tags:
- - fediverse
-preview: "Can you believe it's been five years already? Five years of keeping up to date with all the diverse projects that comprise Fediverse."
-url: "/en/post/fediverse-party-turns-five"
-lang: en
-authors: [{"name": "@lostinlight", "url": "https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone", "network": "mastodon"}]
----
-
-### Fediverse.party turns 5
-
-Can you believe it's been five years already? Five years of helping novices get
-their bearings in the varied landscape that is Fediverse. Five years of guiding people towards smaller, niche instances to strengthen the federation. Five years of keeping up to date with all the diverse projects, big and small, that comprise our network.
-
-This was achieved in large part due to all your pull requests with corrections and updates. Thanks to all the contributors! By the way, since moving to Codeberg, our repository is getting almost twice more pull requests than it used to get on GitLab. ;)
-
-Here's to five more years! 🎉
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-layout: "post"
-title: "Fediverse saves you from pickup artists, and 7 more reasons you should make a Fediverse account"
-date: 2018-07-05
-updated: 2018-07-05
-tags:
- - fediverse
-preview:
- "The Internet is huge, with millions of websites. But Internet users concentrate on large well-known platforms. We are all familiar with the names of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Weibo, Vkontakte, Google, YouTube, Tinder. These services may be useful, but they are not the only ones"
-url: "/en/post/fediverse-saves-from-pickup-artists-and-7-more-reasons-to-join"
-lang: en
-banner: "banner.jpg"
-authors: [{"name": "@lostinlight", "url": "https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone", "network": "mastodon"}]
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-
-The Internet is huge with millions of websites and web services, however, like in offline world people tend to move from countryside to towns to cities, Internet users concentrate on large well-known platforms. We are all familiar with the names of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Weibo, Vkontakte, Google, YouTube, Tinder. These services may be useful, but they aren't the only ones.
-
-Compared to popular mass giants, Fediverse networks are like precious gems. Few people heard of them, but they are out there, waiting for you to find them.
-
-
-
-"Fediverse" means federated universe. There's no one website to sign up to. Instead you will find [hundreds](https://the-federation.info) of websites (servers) powered by citizens all around the world, independent from and uncontrolled by any single company. These servers are all interconnected, so no matter where you register[^1], you'll be able to connect with friends and users of other servers.
-
-Instead of listing "one hundred suits them all" reasons why you should switch to federated social platforms, let's look at reasons for each particular person. That's what Fediverse is good at - _providing choices_.
-
--
-
-* __If you're an extrovert, linguist__
-
-Federated socializing is your cup of tea. Currently[^2] there are about 3.500.000 registered users in Fediverse online world. Compared to corporate giants, that's like a small eco village.
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-
-
-It's natural in Fediverse to welcome new users, to start conversations with anyone who shares your interests, to follow strangers. Do you easily connect with people from other cultures and regions? Would you like to broaden your social network and become neighbours and friends with people from somewhere on the other side of the map from you? We have communities dedicated to all sorts of [hobbies](/en/portal/servers/index.html#hobbies), [regions](/en/portal/servers/index.html#regional), [languages](/en/portal/servers/index.html#languages), political and social [views](/en/portal/servers/index.html#political-and-social-views), [ecology and animal](/en/portal/servers/index.html#ecology-and-animals) related servers, [books, shows and games](/en/portal/servers/index.html#entertainment). Choose your community.
-
-* __If you're an introvert, nerd, geek, scholar, developer__
-
-A wonder you're still not part of Fediverse! It's your space, it's full of people like you. We're scattered across Fediverse servers, searching for kindred spirits. There are communities for [researchers](/en/portal/servers/index.html#sciences), [bookworms](/en/portal/servers/index.html#humanities), [game developers](/en/portal/servers/index.html#gamedev), web developers and [techies](/en/portal/servers/index.html#servers-for-techies), as well as servers run by respectable [organizations](/en/portal/servers/index.html#run-by-tech-savvy-organizations) and [entities](/en/portal/servers/index.html#notable-mention).
-
-* __If you're a content creator, freelance artist__
-
-Your content should be yours, without granting the explicit rights to any corporate third parties. Fediverse communities have high opinions of creators and willingly support their work through donations. We have communities for [writers, artists and photographers](/en/portal/servers/index.html#humanities). Here're recommentations on [how to become a successful artist on Mastodon](https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-become-a-successful-artist-on-mastodon). Share your talents with fedizens.
-
-* __If you've been censored on centralized platforms__
-
-Federated social networks do not have one holy administrator who decides whom and what to ban. You'll find [multiple](/en/portal/servers/index.html#safe-spaces) servers for sensitive, vulnerable communities. Unlike on mainstream social networks, you will not be silenced for personal views. It's customary to share some images and content adding a special #NSFW tag (not safe for work): for spoilers, content inappropriate for children or for people at work. Remember still that each server is run by a volunteer, living in some country with its laws and regulations. Most servers have local rules, and your administrator has the power to ask you leave if you do something nasty. You'll be able to migrate to another server and do nasty things again, but you'd rather not. Spammers are not welcome, Fediverse administrators quickly react and share information withing the community. Other users have the ability to "ignore" or "mute" people who irritate them. **Being nice to each other** is a tradition here.
-
-* __If you care about privacy, are a privacy advocate or NGO__
-
-Then you definitely heard about [Snowden revelations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden), [Cambridge Analytica](https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/facebook_and_ca.html), Equifax breach], [Exactis leak](https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-database-leak-340-million-records), [manipulative practices](https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/06/manipulative_so.html), multiple user data hacks, and so on and so forth. Big centralized websites with big juicy collections of data are [useful](https://warontherocks.com/2018/02/wall-wall-fortresses-fail) for mass surveillance.
-
-Are your friends aware of it? By leaving mainstream networks behind and joining Fediverse you do not automatically gain privacy. Securing data is hard, and federated networks will not protect you from targeted state surveillance. They will, however, protect from corporate mass surveillance. Especially if you spin up your own personal server, secure it, and host it at home. By inviting friends and family to Fediverse you help them treat their personal data wisely, you also help them broaden horizons, find out more about free and open source movements, become technically skilled. Everyone curious who likes to explore will learn in Fediverse.
-
-As a privacy rights organization, by opening your own server or your official Fediverse account on one of the existing servers, and inviting followers on mainstream networks to join you in Fediverse, you help make bulk data collection more diffuclt and costly.
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-* __If you're a troll__
-
-Fediverse has a [server](https://mordor.social) in your honour! Be nice to each other.
-
-
-
-* __If you don't like to share your telephone number with "pickup artists"__
-
-Those who invented "pickup" thingy were on a mission to help people stay single, right? When someone weird approaches you in real life and you don't know what to make of them, why share your phone number or email? If you wish to test their Internet IQ and determination, tell them you'll meet them in Fediverse. A Fediverse account resembles an email and includes your nickname and your server URL - for example, jane@nerdpol.ch. Anyone who really wants to connect with you, will find the way to join Fediverse and search for your profile.
-
-* __If you're a big corp engineer, secret agent__
-
-Then you're clever. Are you capable of empathy? Come on the light side. Transparency is your power, and there's nothing old-fashioned about privacy for your family and loved ones. Just like for all the other citizens of the world. If you know that at heart, you will be invaluable in building social networking the right way.
-
- -### Projects added to [Developer tools](https://fediverse.party/en/tools/): - -- **[GhostCMS ActivityPub](https://codeberg.org/quigs/ghostcms-activitypub)** – an ExpressJS server that integrates with GhostCMS webhooks to publish ActivityPub content on the Fediverse; -- **[Mobilizon Crossposter](https://github.com/gnh1201/gnuboard5-activitypub)** – a modular crossposter to bridge events from external sources to Mobilizon; -- **[M-OAuth](https://github.com/Sevichecc/M-OAuth)** – access token generator for Akkoma, Pleroma, Mastodon APIs; -- **[idkfa](https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/idkfa/f)** – proxy designed to consolidate multiple AP actors; it presents a single unified activity interface to the outside world, while communicating with a cornucopia of internal servers; -- **[Hatsu](https://github.com/importantimport/hatsu)** – self-hosted and fully automated ActivityPub bridge for static sites; -- **[Fedipage](https://git.qoto.org/fedipage/fedipage)** – Hugo based static page generator and blog with ActivityPub support; -- **[ActivityPub Test Suite](https://github.com/steve-bate/activitypub-testsuite)** – server-independent, full-automated test suite primary focused on ActivityPub server compliance testing; -- **[Lemmy Automoderator](https://github.com/basedcount/lemmy-automoderator)** – automated removal of Lemmy posts, comments based on title, content or link; user whitelisting and exceptions for moderators; -- **[Lemmy Migrate](https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate)** – migrate your subscribed Lemmy communites to a new account; -- **[Lemmy Schedule](https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmySchedule)** – app for scheduling posts, pins/unpins and notifications about new content in Lemmy; -- **[Fedi safety](https://github.com/db0/fedi-safety)** – script that goes through Lemmy images in storage and tries to prevent illegal or unethical content; -- **[FediFetcher](https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher)** – tool for Mastodon that automatically fetches missing replies and posts from other Fediverse instances and adds them to your own Mastodon instance; -- **[GetMoarFediverse](https://github.com/g3rv4/GetMoarFediverse)** – import content into your instance that's tagged with hashtags you're interested in; -- **[FakeRelay](https://github.com/g3rv4/FakeRelay)** – an API to index statuses on Mastodon acting as a relay; -- **[masto-backfill](https://github.com/AdamK2003/masto-backfill)** – fetches old posts on your Mastodon, Pleroma or compatible instance(s); -- **[Analytodon](https://github.com/blazer82/analytodon)** – monitor follower growth, identify popular posts, track boosts, favorites, and much more; can be self-hosted; -- **[LASIM](https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim)** – move your Lemmy settings from one account to another; -- **[Pythörhead](https://github.com/db0/pythorhead)** – Python library for interacting with Lemmy; -- **[Granary](https://github.com/snarfed/granary)** – social web translator; it fetches and converts data between social networks, HTML and JSON, ActivityStreams/ActivityPub, and more; -- **[Combine.social](https://combine.social)** – combine remote and local timelines; pre-fetch all missing replies in your home timeline; -- **[ActivityColander](https://gitlab.com/babka_net/activitycolander)** – Fediverse spam gateway, designed to keep unwanted messages from either reaching your ActivityPub server, or tagging them for handling later. - -
- -### Other improvements - -There's a new **filter by license** on Software page. And Lemmy was added to the frontpage. - -### UX research - -Now comes the big question for all the readers of this blog and users of Fediparty website. We've been with you for more than 5 years, but never asked you how you're using this site. What are the pages you visit most often? What pages or features you find most useful? Which ones you find poorly designed? - -Any ideas, suggestions, complaints, feedback you have, please, share with us! Here's a special [Codeberg issue](https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/issues/175) for it. Or you can write your suggestions as an answer to [this Mastodon post](https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone/111325495741837777). - -Thanks in advance! 💜 - - diff --git a/source/_posts/zot-protocol-standardize-effort.md b/source/_posts/zot-protocol-standardize-effort.md deleted file mode 100644 index a1d021a..0000000 --- a/source/_posts/zot-protocol-standardize-effort.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ - ---- -layout: "post" -title: "Call for Participation" -date: 2019-07-20 -updated: 2019-07-20 -tags: - - hubzilla -preview: "Join the efforts to standardize Zot protocol, used in Hubzilla platform. This is a community initiative to push Zot adoption for federated social web" -url: "/en/post/zot-protocol-standardize-effort" -lang: en -wanted: true -authors: [{"name": "@lostinlight", "url": "https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone", "network": "mastodon"}] ---- - -Join the efforts to standardize the Zot protocol, currently used in Hubzilla and Zap platforms. This is a community initiative to push Zot adoption for federated social web. - -Initial call for participation was published [here](https://www.w3.org/community/zot) ([RSS](https://www.w3.org/community/zot/feed)). diff --git a/source/_static/.well-known/acme-challenge/6M65Bb2bldLIR6cliP9R2yNLDIQCIzuWPifaMeMmYHg b/source/_static/.well-known/acme-challenge/6M65Bb2bldLIR6cliP9R2yNLDIQCIzuWPifaMeMmYHg deleted file mode 100644 index 6779ac2..0000000 --- a/source/_static/.well-known/acme-challenge/6M65Bb2bldLIR6cliP9R2yNLDIQCIzuWPifaMeMmYHg +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -6M65Bb2bldLIR6cliP9R2yNLDIQCIzuWPifaMeMmYHg.B8h81B6PGK3ellYnYB-mKK6cf8VcNPsWIu-hCuT_s2A diff --git a/source/_static/.well-known/acme-challenge/JGCTTT3Ts4WgkChYesYlH9Hlkd4Vr8bMXz9QBJozMUU b/source/_static/.well-known/acme-challenge/JGCTTT3Ts4WgkChYesYlH9Hlkd4Vr8bMXz9QBJozMUU deleted file mode 100644 index a1508a4..0000000 --- a/source/_static/.well-known/acme-challenge/JGCTTT3Ts4WgkChYesYlH9Hlkd4Vr8bMXz9QBJozMUU +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -JGCTTT3Ts4WgkChYesYlH9Hlkd4Vr8bMXz9QBJozMUU.B8h81B6PGK3ellYnYB-mKK6cf8VcNPsWIu-hCuT_s2A diff --git a/source/_static/.well-known/acme-challenge/OtvzeHnkfa4uTmBrJb2M8ka_Xhm9dcLcorqC9kGnJsE b/source/_static/.well-known/acme-challenge/OtvzeHnkfa4uTmBrJb2M8ka_Xhm9dcLcorqC9kGnJsE deleted file mode 100644 index 46261df..0000000 --- a/source/_static/.well-known/acme-challenge/OtvzeHnkfa4uTmBrJb2M8ka_Xhm9dcLcorqC9kGnJsE +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -OtvzeHnkfa4uTmBrJb2M8ka_Xhm9dcLcorqC9kGnJsE.k7RwrsyKLj_VW3gJ83kP6B6XlUHiK1LXxZKMnIzLilI diff --git a/source/_static/.well-known/acme-challenge/bJDMEAzC5XkQzFjARtG5UOkGxmiP_I-0EgopPQtP6mo b/source/_static/.well-known/acme-challenge/bJDMEAzC5XkQzFjARtG5UOkGxmiP_I-0EgopPQtP6mo deleted file mode 100644 index 07fe562..0000000 --- a/source/_static/.well-known/acme-challenge/bJDMEAzC5XkQzFjARtG5UOkGxmiP_I-0EgopPQtP6mo +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -bJDMEAzC5XkQzFjARtG5UOkGxmiP_I-0EgopPQtP6mo.k7RwrsyKLj_VW3gJ83kP6B6XlUHiK1LXxZKMnIzLilI diff --git a/source/en/about/index.md b/source/en/about/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 41f8c7d..0000000 --- a/source/en/about/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ ---- -layout: "about" -title: "About the team" ---- diff --git a/source/en/crystalball/index.md b/source/en/crystalball/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index eef7e20..0000000 --- a/source/en/crystalball/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ - ---- -layout: "crystalball" -title: "Fediverse Crystal Ball" ---- diff --git a/source/en/diaspora/index.md b/source/en/diaspora/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 33e4466..0000000 --- a/source/en/diaspora/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ - ---- -layout: "diaspora" -title: "diaspora" -network: "diaspora" -subtitle: "social network where you are in control" -banner: "/img/diaspora-bg.jpg" -percent: "87% 42%" ---- diff --git a/source/en/fediverse/index.md b/source/en/fediverse/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index cd18f54..0000000 --- a/source/en/fediverse/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8 +0,0 @@ - ---- -layout: "fediverse" -title: "About Fediverse" -subtitle: "diversity is strength" -banner: "/img/fediverse-bg.jpg" -percent: "50% 50%" ---- diff --git a/source/en/friendica/index.md b/source/en/friendica/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 535f292..0000000 --- a/source/en/friendica/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ - ---- -layout: "friendica" -title: "Friendica" -network: "friendica" -subtitle: "keep in contact with people you care about" -banner: "/img/friendica-bg.jpg" -percent: "65% 90%" ---- diff --git a/source/en/funkwhale/index.md b/source/en/funkwhale/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 6c3fc4a..0000000 --- a/source/en/funkwhale/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ - ---- -layout: "funkwhale" -title: "Funkwhale" -network: "funkwhale" -subtitle: "a social platform to enjoy and share music" -banner: "/img/funkwhale-bg.jpg" -percent: "100% 20%" ---- diff --git a/source/en/gnusocial/index.md b/source/en/gnusocial/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 72fcdb9..0000000 --- a/source/en/gnusocial/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ - ---- -layout: "gnusocial" -title: "GNU Social" -network: "gnusocial" -subtitle: "connecting free libre communities across the web" -banner: "/img/gnusocial-bg.jpg" -percent: "65% 100%" ---- diff --git a/source/en/hubzilla/index.md b/source/en/hubzilla/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index efc3e6f..0000000 --- a/source/en/hubzilla/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ - ---- -layout: "hubzilla" -title: "Hubzilla" -network: "hubzilla" -subtitle: "powerful tool for a decentralized nomadic identity" -banner: "/img/hubzilla-bg.jpg" -percent: "20% 55%" ---- diff --git a/source/en/knowledge/index.md b/source/en/knowledge/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 3ce0683..0000000 --- a/source/en/knowledge/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8 +0,0 @@ - ---- -layout: "knowledge" -title: "Knowledge" -subtitle: "the truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is" -banner: "/img/knowledge-bg.jpg" -percent: "50% 50%" ---- diff --git a/source/en/lemmy/index.md b/source/en/lemmy/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index b7f18bf..0000000 --- a/source/en/lemmy/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ - ---- -layout: "lemmy" -title: "Lemmy" -network: "lemmy" -subtitle: "Follow communities anywhere in the world" -banner: "/img/lemmy-bg.jpg" -percent: "10% 55%" ---- diff --git a/source/en/mastodon/index.md b/source/en/mastodon/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 4bcb2f4..0000000 --- a/source/en/mastodon/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ - ---- -layout: "mastodon" -title: "Mastodon" -network: "mastodon" -subtitle: "find your perfect community" -banner: "/img/mastodon-bg.jpg" -percent: "60% 90%" ---- diff --git a/source/en/miscellaneous/index.md b/source/en/miscellaneous/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index bd36a5e..0000000 --- a/source/en/miscellaneous/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,7 +0,0 @@ - ---- -layout: "miscellaneous" -title: "" -banner: "/img/misc-bg.png" -percent: "45% 100%" ---- diff --git a/source/en/misskey/index.md b/source/en/misskey/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 2f56eca..0000000 --- a/source/en/misskey/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ - ---- -layout: "misskey" -title: "Misskey" -network: "misskey" -subtitle: "sophisticated micro blogging" -banner: "/img/misskey-bg.jpg" -percent: "100% 25%" ---- diff --git a/source/en/peertube/index.md b/source/en/peertube/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 891cfde..0000000 --- a/source/en/peertube/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ - ---- -layout: "peertube" -title: "PeerTube" -network: "peertube" -subtitle: "take back the control of your videos" -banner: "/img/peertube-bg.jpg" -percent: "45% 15%" ---- diff --git a/source/en/pixelfed/index.md b/source/en/pixelfed/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index fb3f293..0000000 --- a/source/en/pixelfed/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ - ---- -layout: "pixelfed" -title: "PixelFed" -network: "pixelfed" -subtitle: "federated image sharing platform" -banner: "/img/pixelfed-bg.jpg" -percent: "0% 0%" ---- diff --git a/source/en/pleroma/index.md b/source/en/pleroma/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 76ac278..0000000 --- a/source/en/pleroma/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ - ---- -layout: "pleroma" -title: "Pleroma" -network: "pleroma" -subtitle: "light as a feather" -banner: "/img/pleroma-bg.jpg" -percent: "10% 55%" ---- diff --git a/source/en/portal/servers/index.md b/source/en/portal/servers/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index c90c38e..0000000 --- a/source/en/portal/servers/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,344 +0,0 @@ ---- -layout: "post" -title: "Themed servers" ---- - -**Unsure where to register to join Fediverse?** Choose a website from this curated list. It includes [Mastodon](/en/mastodon), Glitch-soc and Hometown (Mastodon forks), [Pleroma](/en/pleroma) and Akkoma (Pleroma fork), [Friendica](/en/friendica), [Misskey](/en/misskey) and Firefish (Misskey fork), and [Hubzilla](/en/hubzilla) servers. Websites are not restricted to their theme. They help people with common interests find their community. - -Information about adding a server can be found [here](https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/src/branch/main/ADDING-SERVER.md). - -
-
-
-### 💡 [Sciences](#sciences)
-* [lugnasad.eu](https://lugnasad.eu) - for French speaking science lovers *(Friendica)*
-
-### 🎨 [Humanities](#humanities)
-* [oulipo.social](https://oulipo.social) - a lipogrammatic server *(Mastodon)*
-* [archaeo.social](https://archaeo.social) - for archaeologists, historians and lovers of all things ancient *(Mastodon)*
-* [zirk.us](https://zirk.us) - for readers, writers, thinkers, artists, academics, enthusiasts in arts and humanities *(Mastodon)*
-
-### 🎓 [Education](#education)
-* [tusk.schoollibraries.net](https://tusk.schoollibraries.net) - helping educators improve the School Libraries Resource Network *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodon.oeru.org](https://mastodon.oeru.org) - for educators and learners involved in the [OERu](https://oeru.org) *(Mastodon)*
-* [akademienl.social](https://akademienl.social) - for anyone working in or with a general interest in Dutch academia *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodon.education](https://mastodon.education) - for everyone who works for and with education *(Mastodon)*
-* [sotl.social](https://sotl.social) - talk about the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning *(Mastodon)*
-
-### 🎵 [Music](#music)
-* [koreadon.com](https://koreadon.com) - for K-POP music fans *(Mastodon)*
-* [feedbeat.me](https://feedbeat.me) - dedicated to culture and events such as music, poetry, comedy (German) *(Mastodon)*
-* [piano.masto.host](https://piano.masto.host) - dedicated to piano music, in English/Japanese *(Mastodon)*
-* [metalverse.social](https://metalverse.social) - from Metalheads for everybody *(Mastodon)*
-* [drumstodon.net](https://drumstodon.net) - a place for drummers, musicians and music lovers in general *(Mastodon)*
-* [musician.social](https://musician.social) - for musicians who create, play, or love jazz, rock, pop, indie, classical and all other types of music *(Mastodon)*
-
-### 🔭 [Interests and hobbies](#hobbies)
-* [rollenspiel.social](https://rollenspiel.social) - (German) roleplay, Pen & Paper, tabletop, TCG, for all gamers *(Mastodon)*
-* [radiosocial.de](https://radiosocial.de) - for German radio amateurs *(Mastodon)*
-* [hamradio.tel](https://hamradio.tel) - ham radio community *(Mastodon)*
-* [pl.nudie.social](https://pl.nudie.social) - for naturists, nudists, clothes-free living *(Akkoma)*
-* [prf.me](https://prf.me) - for perfume, fragrance and scent lovers *(Mastodon)*
-* [makerspace.social](https://makerspace.social) - space for makers (CNC, woodworking, microcontrollers, etc) *(Mastodon)*
-* [3dp.chat](https://3dp.chat) - 3D printing *(Mastodon)*
-* [gametoots.de](https://gametoots.de) - for gamers and streamers *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodon.triggerphra.se](https://mastodon.triggerphra.se) - for the hypnosis community; 18+, queer, and getting very sleepy *(Mastodon)*
-* [podvibes.co](https://podvibes.co) - for audio fiction creators and fans (audio drama, fiction podcasts, audiobooks, etc.) *(Mastodon)* *(Cloudflared)*
-
-### 🚄 [Travel, Transport and Infrastructure](#travel)
-* [rail.chat](https://rail.chat) - discussions about long-distance, passenger and freight rail networks for economic, environmental and equity benefits *(Mastodon)*
-* [aircrew.rocks](https://aircrew.rocks) - for pilots, flight attendants, and flight enthusiasts *(Mastodon)*
-* [bahn.social](https://bahn.social) - for rail enthusiasts, in German *(Mastodon)*
-* [toot.pizza](https://toot.pizza) - NYC-leaning urbanism and transit instance *(Mastodon)*
-* [towns.gay](https://towns.gay) - for radical queers, who believe that cities are for us too *(Mastodon)*
-
-### 🎏 [Language specific](#languages)
-* [vkl.world](https://vkl.world) - Belarusian language *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodon.fedi.bzh](https://mastodon.fedi.bzh) - Breton and Gallo speakers *(Mastodon)*
-* [fairy.id](https://fairy.id) - Chinese language *(Mastodon)*
-* [gomastodon.cz](https://gomastodon.cz) - Czech users *(Mastodon)*
-* [norrebro.space](https://norrebro.space) - Danish speakers *(Mastodon)*
-* [e.fo](https://e.fo) - Faroese language *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodo.fi](https://mastodo.fi) - Finnish language *(Mastodon)*
-* [librosphere.fr](https://librosphere.fr) - French speakers *(Pleroma)*
-* [kanoa.de](https://kanoa.de) - German language *(Mastodon)*
-* [electricrequiem.com](https://electricrequiem.com) - Greek language *(Firefish)* *(Google reCAPTCHA)*
-* [loðfíll.is](https://xn--lofll-1sat.is) - Icelandic speakers *(Mastodon)*
-* [best-friends.chat](https://best-friends.chat) - Japanese speakers *(Mastodon)*
-* [occitania.social](https://occitania.social) - Occitan culture and language *(Mastodon)*
-* [pol.social](https://pol.social) - Polish speakers *(Mastodon)*
-* [wspanialy.eu](https://wspanialy.eu) - Polish speakers *(Mastodon)*
-* [mk.phreedom.club](https://mk.phreedom.club) - Russian users *(Misskey)*
-* [samenet.social](https://samenet.social) - Sámi language *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodon.sk](https://mastodon.sk) - Slovakian speakers *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodon.in.th](https://mastodon.in.th) - Thai speakers *(Mastodon)*
-* [toki.social](https://toki.social) - Toki Pona speakers *(Mastodon)*
-* [jam.xwx.moe](https://jam.xwx.moe/) - Esperanto speakers *(Pleroma)*
-
-### 🛡 [Safer spaces](#safer-spaces)
-
-Instances run by and for people belonging to minorities and moderated more strictly than usual
-(also check out [Fedi.Garden](https://fedi.garden) for curated list of well-moderated instances)
-
-* [neovibe.app](https://neovibe.app) - for fans of music, movies, gaming and all forms of entertainment, LGBTQ+ friendly and Black-run *(Mastodon)*
-* [qdon.space](https://qdon.space) - a queer-friendly Korean-language instance - 퀴어 친화적인 마스토돈 인스턴스입니다 *(Mastodon)*
-* [bark.lgbt](https://bark.lgbt) - for critters that like to bark, LGBTQ+ run and friendly, active moderation *(Mastodon)*
-
-### ⛺ [Regional](#regional)
-
-#### Australia
-* [bne.social](https://bne.social) - Brisbane *(Mastodon)*
-
-#### Austria
-* [krems.social](https://krems.social) - Krems *(Mastodon)*
-* [fedi.at](https://fedi.at) - Austria *(Mastodon)*
-* [sbg-social.at](https://sbg-social.at) - Salzburg *(Mastodon)*
-* [aut.social](https://aut.social) - Austria *(Mastodon)*
-
-#### Belgium
-* [wokka.be](https://wokka.be) - Belgium
-* [mastodon-belgium.be](https://mastodon-belgium.be) - Belgium *(Mastodon)*
-
-#### Czech Republic
-* [witter.cz](https://witter.cz) - Czech Republic *(Mastodon)*
-
-#### Denmark
-* [norrebro.space](https://norrebro.space) - Denmark *(Mastodon)*
-
-#### Finland
-* [mastodo.fi](https://mastodo.fi) - Finland *(Mastodon)*
-
-#### Germany
-* [mastodon.bayern](https://mastodon.bayern) - Bavaria *(Mastodon)*
-* [ruhrpott.social](https://ruhrpott.social) - Ruhr area *(Mastodon)*
-* [fulda.social](https://fulda.social) - Fulda *(Mastodon)*
-* [brandenburg.social](https://brandenburg.social) - Brandenburg *(Mastodon)*
-* [berlin.social](https://berlin.social) - Berlin *(Mastodon)*
-* [osna.social](https://osna.social) - Osnabrück *(Mastodon)*
-* [fem.social](https://fem.social) - Ilmenau *(Mastodon)*
-* [friendica.a-zwenkau.de](https://friendica.a-zwenkau.de) - Zwenkau *(Friendica)*
-* [harz.social](https://harz.social) - Harz area *(Mastodon)*
-* [rheinneckar.social](https://rheinneckar.social) - Rhein-Neckar area *(Mastodon)*
-* [moessingen.social](https://moessingen.social) - Mössingen area *(Mastodon)*
-* [cas.social](https://cas.social) - Castrop-Rauxel *(Mastodon)*
-* [im.allmendenetz.de](https://im.allmendenetz.de) - Cologne, Germany *(Hubzilla)*
-* [toot.berlin](https://toot.berlin) - Berlin *(Mastodon)*
-* [kowelenz.social](https://kowelenz.social) - Koblenz *(Akkoma)*
-
-#### Italy
-* [foxyhole.io](https://foxyhole.io) - Italy *(Firefish)* *(hCaptcha)*
-
-#### Madagascar
-* [mastodon.mg](https://mastodon.mg) - Madagascar *(Mastodon)*
-
-#### Nigeria
-* [mastodon.holeyfox.co](https://mastodon.holeyfox.co) - Nigeria *(Mastodon)*
-
-#### Netherlands
-* [nwb.social](https://nwb.social) - Nieuw West-Brabant *(Mastodon)*
-
-#### Spain
-* [malaga.social](https://malaga.social) - Malaga *(Mastodon)*
-
-#### Switzerland
-* [swiss.social](https://swiss.social) - Switzerland *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodon.free-solutions.org](https://mastodon.free-solutions.org) - Switzerland *(Mastodon)*
-
-#### Tunisia
-* [mastodon.tn](https://mastodon.tn) - Tunisia *(Mastodon)*
-
-#### Ukraine
-* [soc.ua-fediland.de](https://soc.ua-fediland.de) - Ukraine *(Mastodon)*
-* [lviv.social](https://lviv.social) - Lviv *(Mastodon)*
-
-#### UK
-* [bath.social](https://bath.social) - Bath *(Mastodon)*
-
-#### USA
-* [socialclub.nyc](https://socialclub.nyc) - New York *(Mastodon)*
-* [social.tulsa.ok.us](https://social.tulsa.ok.us) - Tulsa, Northeast Oklahoma *(Mastodon)*
-* [cityofchicago.live](https://cityofchicago.live) - Chicago, Illinois *(Mastodon)*
-* [gardenstate.social](https://gardenstate.social) - New Jersey *(Mastodon)*
-* [theatl.social](https://theatl.social) - Atlanta, Georgia *(Mastodon)* *(Cloudflared)*
-
-### 🐧 [For techies](#servers-for-techies)
-* [techlover.eu](https://techlover.eu) - talk about new technologies like development, digital art or science *(Mastodon)*
-* [layer8.space](https://layer8.space) - talk about Linux, anime, music, software and more *(Mastodon)*
-* [devschile.social](https://devschile.social) - for Spanish-language techies of Chile *(Mastodon)*
-* [k8s.social](https://k8s.social) - for kubernetes, container and cloud native enthusiasts *(Mastodon)*
-* [gnulinux.social](https://gnulinux.social) - community dedicated to Free Software enthusiasts and supporters
-* [technodon.org](https://technodon.org) - general technology discussion *(Mastodon)* *(Cloudflared)*
-* [toot.works](https://toot.works) - for folks who make things with bits, wires, wood, and more *(Mastodon)*
-
-### 💻 [Programming](#instances-for-programmers)
-* [dotnet.social](https://dotnet.social) - .NET *(Mastodon)*
-* [jvm.social](https://jvm.social) - JVM technologies related server *(Mastodon)*
-
-### 🎬 [Book / Game / Show theme](#entertainment)
-* [greenhill.zone](https://greenhill.zone) - multilingual instance for fans of Sonic the Hedgehog *(Mastodon)*
-
-### 🐰 [Environmentalism](#environmentalism)
-* [toot.cat](https://toot.cat) - instance for cats, the people who love them, and kindness in general *(Mastodon)*
-* [floe.earth](https://mastodon.floe.earth) - talk about climate, society, but also pleasant things in life *(Mastodon)*
-* [sauropods.win](https://sauropods.win) - for sauropod appreciators *(Mastodon)*
-* [veganism.social](https://veganism.social) - for vegans and animal rights activists *(Mastodon)*
-
-### ⚕ [Healthcare](#health)
-* [fedisabled.social](https://fedisabled.social) - for all disabled people *(Mastodon)*
-* [medibubble.org](https://medibubble.org) - for medical professionals and everyone else, in German *(Mastodon)*
-
-### 👽 [Fandoms](#fandoms)
-* [bungle.online](https://bungle.online) - fandom instance, post media, fan art and fanfiction *(Misskey)*
-* [mastodol.jp](https://mastodol.jp) - talk about idols in Japanese *(Mastodon)*
-
-### 🙏 [Religion](#religion)
-* [elizur.me](https://elizur.me) - for German-speaking Christians *(Mastodon)*
-* [babka.social](https://babka.social) - for Jews and Jewish allies *(Mastodon)*
-* [1689.social](https://1689.social) - for Reformed Baptists worldwide *(Mastodon)*
-
-### 🔴 [Political and social views](#political-and-social-views)
-* [elonsucks.org](https://elonsucks.org) - English-speaking server open to anyone, especially those who are anti-capitalist, pro-democracy and strive to bridge inequality *(Mastodon)* *(Cloudflared)*
-
-### 🌏 [Notable generalistic](#notable-generalistic)
-// *small-to-medium sized instances that will be happy to have new users*
-* [venera.social](https://venera.social) - friendly humans are welcome *(Friendica)*
-* [misskey.de](https://misskey.de) - hosted in Helsinki *(Misskey)*
-* [social.sp-codes.de](https://social.sp-codes.de) - main language is German *(Mastodon)*
-* [social.yesterweb.org](https://social.yesterweb.org) - hosted in the USA, mainly in English *(Mastodon)*
-* [wetdry.world](https://wetdry.world) - talk about tech, gaming, bad jokes *(Mastodon)*
-* [masto.bike](https://masto.bike) - riding a bike is a plus, French speaking *(Mastodon)*
-* [blueplanet.social](https://blueplanet.social) - for people interested in making this planet a better place, primarily German language
-* [convo.casa](https://convo.casa) - general for everyone *(Mastodon)*
-
-### 🐚 [Run by tech-savvy organizations](#run-by-tech-savvy-organizations)
-*Instances which declare to be affiliated with an incorporate non-profit (usually an [association](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_association) or [cooperative](https://www.ica.coop/en/cooperatives/what-is-a-cooperative)) and to follow its policies*
-* [en.osm.town](https://en.osm.town) - for the OpenStreetMap Community *(Mastodon)*
-* [swiss-chaos.social](https://swiss-chaos.social) - Chaos Computer Club Switzerland *(Mastodon)*
-
-### 🎉 [Notable mention](#notable-mention)
-// *are open to particular audience, i.e., to students of university*
-* [mastodon.mit.edu](https://mastodon.mit.edu) - for the MIT community *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodon.librelabucm.org](https://mastodon.librelabucm.org) - for Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) people and free/libre software talk in Spanish *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodon.acc.sunet.se](https://mastodon.acc.sunet.se) - by Academic Computer Club at Umeå University, Sweden *(Mastodon)*
-* [akademienl.social](https://akademienl.social) - for anyone working in, affiliated with, or with a general interest in Dutch academia *(Mastodon)*
-* [social.sunet.se](https://social.sunet.se) - by the Swedish Research Council for anyone belonging to a Swedish university *(Mastodon)*
-* [social.edu.nl](https://social.edu.nl) - by [SURF](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2422744), a cooperative of Dutch universities *(Mastodon)*
-* [social.mpdl.mpg.de](https://social.mpdl.mpg.de) - by the [Max Planck Digital Library](https://www.mpdl.mpg.de/) at MPG *(Mastodon)*
-* [wisskomm.social](https://wisskomm.social) - by [idw](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informationsdienst_Wissenschaft), for entities and groups in German academia *(Mastodon)*
-* [social.up.edu.ph](https://social.up.edu.ph) - by the University of the Philippines *(Hometown)*
-
-### 🎉 [Various (registration by application)](#registration-by-application)
-
-#### Minorities (registration by application)
-*Instances focused on providing a safe space for minorities such as LGBTQ+ people and require approval for registration*
-* [4bear.com](https://4bear.com) - for the LGBT+ Bear Community *(Mastodon)*
-* [indiepocalypse.social](https://indiepocalypse.social) - for independent creators of all sorts *(Mastodon)*
-* [is.nota.live](https://is.nota.live) - queer-run instance *(Mastodon)*
-* [lgbtqia.space](https://lgbtqia.space) - for all LGBTQIA people who want a caring and safe environment *(Mastodon)*
-* [meemu.org](https://meemu.org) - a queer-friendly instance *(Mastodon)*
-* [pipou.academy](https://pipou.academy) - a French-language queer instance - une instance queer, qui vise à être aussi confortable et safe que possible *(Mastodon)*
-* [poweredbygay.social](https://poweredbygay.social) - for those LGBTQIA+ (and Allies) that are into fun adventurous things, like playing/watching sports, hiking, camping *(Mastodon)*
-* [retro.pizza](https://retro.pizza) - a queer-run poly-fandom nerd culture instance *(Mastodon)*
-* [connectop.us](https://connectop.us) - a respectful, diverse, inclusive community standing up for all marginalized gropus *(Mastodon)*
-* [blackqueer.life](https://blackqueer.life) - for Black queer folks *(Mastodon glitch)*
-* [wavebird.party](https://wavebird.party) - queer- and disabled-run instance for retrocomputing, retro gaming and indie web enthusiasts *(Mastodon Glitch)*
-
-#### Furry (registration by application)
-*Instances which are focused on providing a safe space for furry interests and require approval for registration.*
-* [chitter.xyz](https://chitter.xyz) - for a friendly, inclusive, and incredibly soft community *(Mastodon)*
-* [furry.engineer](https://furry.engineer) - echies and engineers of all types within the furry fandom, LGBTQ+ friendly *(Mastodon)*
-* [pawb.fun](https://pawb.fun) - for the furry fandom, LGBTQ+ friendly safe space *(Mastodon)*
-* [pounced-on.me](https://pounced-on.me) - a generalistic furry mastodon instance *(Mastodon glitch)*
-* [thicc.horse](https://thicc.horse) - for body positivity, LGBTQIA+, Furry, horny on main *(Mastodon)*
-* [pony.social](https://pony.social) - for nerds, LGBTQ+ or just people looking for a comfy place *(Mastodon)*
-* [derg.social](https://derg.social) - Swiss furry community *(Mastodon)* *(Cloudflared)*
-
-#### Other
-// *these servers may be removed in future automated updates due to signups by application*
-* [augsburg.social](https://augsburg.social) - Augsburg, Germany *(Mastodon)*
-* [wue.social](https://wue.social) - Würzburg (and the neighbourhood), Germany *(Mastodon)*
-* [bonn.social](https://bonn.social) - Bonn, Germany *(Mastodon)*
-* [krefeld.life](https://krefeld.life) - Krefeld, Germany *(Mastodon)*
-* [darmstadt.social](https://darmstadt.social) - Darmstadt, Germany *(Mastodon)*
-* [snabelen.no](https://snabelen.no) - Norway *(Mastodon)*
-* [tukkers.online](https://tukkers.online) - Twente region, Netherlands *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodon.opencloud.lu](https://mastodon.opencloud.lu) - Luxembourg (private and public organisations) *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodon.uy](https://mastodon.uy) - Uruguay *(Mastodon)*
-* [chilemasto.casa](https://chilemasto.casa) - Chile *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodos.com](https://mastodos.com) - Kyoto, Japan *(Mastodon)*
-* [mograph.social](https://mograph.social) - for motion design community, VFX / 3D artists, animators, illustrators *(Mastodon)*
-* [iztasocial.site](https://iztasocial.site) - discussions about psychology for professors of SUAyED Psicología university of Mexico *(Mastodon)*
-* [openbiblio.social](https://openbiblio.social) - German libraries and information facilities *(Mastodon)*
-* [ausglam.space](https://ausglam.space) - Australian galleries, libraries, archives, museums and records people *(Mastodon)*
-* [linernotes.club](https://linernotes.club) - for discussing music recordings *(Mastodon)*
-* [bostonmusic.online](https://bostonmusic.online) - digital space serving the Boston music scene *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodon.radio](https://mastodon.radio) - for Amateur (Ham) Radio community *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodontti.fi](https://mastodontti.fi) - Finnish, public toots should be in Finnish *(Mastodon)*
-* [floss.social](https://floss.social) - for people who support or build Free Libre Open Source Software *(Mastodon)*
-* [linuxrocks.online](https://linuxrocks.online) - dedicated to Linux and technologies *(Mastodon)*
-* [digipres.club](https://digipres.club) - conversations about digital preservation *(Mastodon)*
-* [phpc.social](https://phpc.social) - PHP community
-* [dads.cool](https://dads.cool) - anyone with a kid can be a dad *(Mastodon)*
-* [colorid.es](https://colorid.es)- Spanish LGBTQIA+ / queer instance primarily for Portuguese speakers *(Mastodon)*
-* [fandom.ink](https://fandom.ink) - for fans and fandoms of all types *(Mastodon)*
-* [tooting.ch](https://tooting.ch) - generic instance hosted by the FairSocialNet association *(Mastodon)*
-* [digitalcourage.social](https://digitalcourage.social) - by DigitalCourage *(Mastodon)*
-* [libretooth.gr](https://libretooth.gr) - by LibreOps, who contribute to (re-)decentralizing the net *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodon.cc](https://mastodon.cc) - for art *(Mastodon)*
-* [theres.life](https://theres.life) - for Christians *(Mastodon)*
-* [fikaverse.club](https://fikaverse.club) - Swedish and other Scandinavian languages *(Mastodon)*
-* [feuerwehr.social](https://feuerwehr.social) - for all firefighters in German-speaking countries *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodon.gougere.fr](https://mastodon.gougere.fr) - Auxerre, France *(Mastodon)*
-* [stereodon.social](https://stereodon.social) - self-managed social network devoted to underground music (Italian, English languages) *(Mastodon)*
-* [solarpunk.moe](https://solarpunk.moe) - for solarpunk nerds *(Mastodon)*
-* [leftist.network](https://leftist.network) - for those with Leftist politics *(Mastodon)*
-* [PCGamer.social](https://pcgamer.social) - by the PC gamer, for the PC gamer *(Mastodon)*
-* [poliverso.org](https://poliverso.org) - dedicated to politics and digital rights (Italian speaking) *(Friendica)*
-* [ruby.social](https://ruby.social) - for people interested in Ruby, Rails and related topics *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodontti.fi](https://mastodontti.fi) - for Finnish speakers *(Mastodon)*
-* [snabelen.no](https://snabelen.no) - for Norwegian speakers *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodon.ml](https://mastodon.ml) - Russia *(Mastodon)*
-* [cmdr.social](https://cmdr.social) - dedicated to Elite: Dangerous and space exploration *(Mastodon)*
-* [handmade.social](https://handmade.social) - for all handmade artisans and their Etsy shops
-* [sciencemastodon.com](https://sciencemastodon.com) - for science journalists and scientists
-* [recht.social](https://recht.social) - focus on legal topics *(Mastodon)*
-* [medic.cafe](https://medic.cafe) - for employees in the medical field *(Mastodon)*
-* [graz.social](https://graz.social) - Graz, Austria *(Mastodon)*
-* [sciences.social](https://sciences.social) - for social scientists *(Mastodon)*
-* [indiepocalypse.social](https://indiepocalypse.social) - for independent creators of all sorts *(Mastodon)*
-* [brettspiel.space](https://brettspiel.space) - for boardgame players *(Mastodon)*
-* [podcasts.social](https://podcasts.social) - for podcasters *(Mastodon)*
-* [beo.social](https://beo.social) - Bernese Oberland, Switzerland
-* [greennuclear.online](https://greennuclear.online) - nuclear community *(Mastodon)*
-* [indiehackers.social](https://indiehackers.social) - for all indie hackers *(Mastodon)*
-* [musicians.today](https://musicians.today) - for musicians of all levels, instruments, regions, languages, and genres *(Mastodon)*
-* [kalmar.social](https://kalmar.social) - Kalmar region, Sweden *(Mastodon)*
-* [blasmusik.social](https://blasmusik.social) - specially, but not only for brass musicians, Germany *(Mastodon)*
-* [social.seattle.wa.us](https://social.seattle.wa.us) - Seattle *(Mastodon)*
-* [social.bau-ha.us](https://social.bau-ha.us) - part of CCC family, hosted in Weimar *(Mastodon)*
-* [poliversity.it](https://poliversity.it) - Italian instance dedicated to the world of science and journalism *(Mastodon)*
-* [astrodon.social](https://astrodon.social) - for anyone interested in astronomy, astrophysics, astrophotography *(Mastodon)*
-* [onlycosplays.social](https://onlycosplays.social) - safe place for cosplayers and their communities *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodon.eus](https://mastodon.eus) - for Euskera/Basque speakers *(Mastodon)*
-* [xarxa.cloud](https://xarxa.cloud) - for Catalan and Spanish speakers *(Mastodon)*
-* [neurodifferent.me](https://neurodifferent.me) - a friendly space for neurodifferent folks *(Mastodon)*
-* [machteburch.social](https://machteburch.social) - Magdeburg *(Mastodon)*
-* [frankfurt.social](https://frankfurt.social) - Frankfurt *(Mastodon)*
-* [nahe.social](https://nahe.social) - Nahe region *(Mastodon)*
-* [oslo.town](https://oslo.town) - Oslo *(Mastodon)*
-* [ecoevo.social](https://ecoevo.social) - for the biological ecology and evolution community *(Mastodon)*
-* [veterinary.education](https://veterinary.education) - veterinary medicine *(Mastodon)*
-* [bardown.space](https://bardown.space) - for hockey fans and players *(Hometown)*
-* [idlethumbs.social](https://idlethumbs.social) - hosted in California *(Mastodon)*
-* [okla.social](https://okla.social) - for those from or interested in Oklahoma *(Mastodon)*
-* [hoosier.social](https://hoosier.social) - for residents of Indiana *(Mastodon)*
-* [dz.social](https://dz.social) - Algeria *(Mastodon)*
-* [astronomy.city](https://astronomy.city) - for astronomy and astronomy-adjacent users *(Mastodon)*
-* [paktodon.asia](https://paktodon.asia) - a Pakistani instance for the Global South *(Mastodon)*
-* [mastodon.africa](https://mastodon.africa) - South Africa *(Mastodon)*
-* [mapstodon.space](https://mapstodon.space) - an instance dedicated to cartography & geospatial *(Mastodon)*
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- - <%= tuts[n] %> / - - <% } %> -
-
- <%- __('techies') %>
- -- <%- partial('_partial/contributing') %> - - <%- partial('_partial/buttons') %> -
-
-
- Fediverse - -
- <%= fv.definition %> -<%= fv.preamble %>
- -- <%- __('total') %> - <% if (numbers) { %> ~ <%= numbers.population %><% } else { %> ? <% } %> - <%- __('accounts') %> -
- <% if (numbers.activeUsers) { %> -- <%- __('active') %> ~ <%= numbers.activeUsers %><%- __('people') %> -
- <% } %> -- <%- __('servers') %> - <% if (numbers) { %> > <%= numbers.podsNum %> <% } else { %> ? <% } %> - <%- __('instances') %> -
-
-
-
- <%- __('knowledge') %>
--
- <% for (item in fv.knowledge) { %>
-
- <%= fv.knowledge[item] %> - <% } %> -
-
-
- <%- __('platforms') %>
--
- <% for (item in platforms) { %>
-
- - <%= platforms[item].title %>, - - <% } %> -
- and many more -
-
-
- <%- __('projects') %>
--
- <% for (item in fv.projects) { %>
-
- <%= fv.projects[item] %> - <% } %> -
-
-
-
-
- <%- __('protocols') %>
--
- <% for (item in protocols) { %>
-
- - <%= protocols[item].name %>, - - <% } %> -
<%= fv.info %>
- -
-
-
- <%- __('latest') %>
--
- <% for (item in fv.latest) { %>
-
- <%= fv.latest[item] %> - <% } %> -
-
-
- <%- __('reading') %>
--
- <% for (item in fv.reading) { %>
-
- <%= fv.reading[item].title %> - <% } %> -
-
-
-
-
- <%- partial('_partial/buttons') %>
-<%- __('forDevs') %>
--
- <% for (item in fv.forDevs) { %>
-
- <%= fv.forDevs[item] %> - <% } %> -
-
- <%- partial('_partial/generalinfo') %>
-
-
-
-
-
- <%- partial('_partial/world') %>
-
-
- <%- __('techies') %>
--
- <% for (item in data.tutorials) { %>
- <% let n = data.tutorials[item].id %>
-
- - <%= tuts[n] %> / - - <% } %> -
-
- <%- __('utilities') %>
--
- <% for (item in data.utilities) { %>
- <% let u = data.utilities[item].id %>
-
- - <%= utils[u] %> - - <% } %> -
- <%- partial('_partial/contributing') %> - - <%- partial('_partial/buttons') %> -
- <%- partial('_partial/generalinfo') %>
-
-
-
-
- <%- partial('_partial/world') %>
-
-
- <%- __('users') %>
--
- <% for (item in data.forUsers) { %>
- <% let n = data.forUsers[item].id %>
-
- - <%= uxList[n] %> - - <% } %> -
-
- <%- __('techies') %>
--
- <% for (item in data.services) { %>
- <% let b = data.services[item].id %>
-
- - <%= tools[b] %> / - - <% } %> -
- <%- partial('_partial/contributing') %> - - <%- partial('_partial/buttons') %> -
- <%- partial('_partial/generalinfo') %>
-
- <%- partial('_partial/world') %>
- - <%- partial('_partial/contributing') %> - <%- partial('_partial/buttons') %> -
-
- <%- partial('_partial/generalinfo') %>
-
-
-
-
-
- <%- partial('_partial/world') %>
-
-
- <%- __('tuts') %>
--
- <% for (item in tutorials) { %>
- <% let n = tutorials[item].id %>
-
- - <%= tuts[n] %> / - - <% } %> -
-
- <%- __('utilities') %>
--
- <% for (item in utilities) { %>
- <% let u = utilities[item].id %>
-
- - <%= utils[u] %> - - <% } %> -
- <%- partial('_partial/contributing') %> - - <%- partial('_partial/buttons') %> -
-
- <%- partial('_partial/generalinfo') %>
-
-
-
-
-
- <%- partial('_partial/world') %>
-
-
- <%- __('tuts') %>
--
- <% for (item in tutorials) { %>
- <% let n = tutorials[item].id %>
-
- - <%= tuts[n] %> / - - <% } %> -
-
- <%- __('cheatsheets') %>
--
- <% for (item in cheatsheets) { %>
- <% let n = cheatsheets[item].id %>
-
- - <%= sheets[n] %> / - - <% } %> -
- <%- partial('_partial/contributing') %> - - <%- partial('_partial/buttons') %> -
- <% for (item in list) { %>
-
-  %>)
<%= list[item].title %>
-
-
diff --git a/themes/starter/layout/knowledge.ejs b/themes/starter/layout/knowledge.ejs
deleted file mode 100644
index 55eeeda..0000000
--- a/themes/starter/layout/knowledge.ejs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-
----
-layout: layout
----
-
-<%
- const data = site.data.knowledge.list;
-%>
-
-<%- partial('_partial/heroheader') %>
-
-
-
-
- <% } %>
- <%= list[item].title %>
- <%= list[item].descr %>
-
-
-
-
- <%- __('hello') %>
-
- <%- __('leave') %> <%- __('unique') %>.
-<%- __('theWorld') %>
<%- __('universe') %>
- <%- __('share') %> -
--
- <% for (item in data) { %>
-
- - <%= data[item].title %> - - <% } %> -
-
- <%- body %>
-
-
- <%- partial('_partial/generalinfo') %>
-
-
-
-
- <%- partial('_partial/world') %>
-
-
- <%- __('users') %>
--
- <% for (item in data.forUsers) { %>
- <% let n = data.forUsers[item].id %>
-
- - <%= uxList[n] %> - - <% } %> -
- <%- partial('_partial/contributing') %> - - <%- partial('_partial/buttons') %> -
-
- <%- partial('_partial/generalinfo') %>
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- <%- __('users') %>
--
- <% for (item in data.forUsers) { %>
- <% let n = data.forUsers[item].id %>
-
- - <%= uxList[n] %> - - <% } %> -
-
- <%- __('techies') %>
--
- <% for (item in data.forTechies) { %>
- <% let c = data.forTechies[item].id %>
-
- - <%= tech[c] %> - - <% } %> - <% for (item in data.services) { %> - <% let b = data.services[item].id %> -
- - <%= tools[b] %> / - - <% } %> -
-
-
- <%- partial('_partial/world') %>
-
-
-
-
- <%- __('tuts') %>
--
- <% for (item in data.tutorials) { %>
- <% let n = data.tutorials[item].id %>
-
- - <%= tuts[n] %> / - - <% } %> -
-
- <%- __('utilities') %>
--
- <% for (item in data.utilities) { %>
- <% let u = data.utilities[item].id %>
-
- - <%= utils[u] %> - - <% } %> -
-
-
-
- <%- __('forks') %>
--
- <% for (item in data.forks) { %>
-
- - <%= data.forks[item].descr %> - - <% } %> -
- <%- partial('_partial/contributing') %> - - <%- partial('_partial/buttons') %> -
EXPLORE FEDIVERSE SOFTWARE
- → Check out other Fediverse Tools ← - -Sort by category:
- <% for (item in byCategory) { %> - - <% } %> - -Sort by protocol:
- <% for (item in byProtocol) { %> - - <% } %> - -Sort by code language:
- - <% for (i in langList) { %> - - <% } %> - -Sort by license:
- - <% for (i in licenseList) { %> - - <% } %> - -
- <%- partial('_partial/generalinfo') %>
-
-
-
- <%- partial('_partial/world') %>
-
-
- <%- __('forks') %>
--
- <% for (item in data.forks) { %>
-
- - <%= data.forks[item].descr %> - - <% } %> -
- <%- partial('_partial/contributing') %> - <%- partial('_partial/buttons') %> -
- <%- partial('_partial/generalinfo') %>
-
-
-
-
- <%- partial('_partial/world') %>
-
-
- <%- __('users') %>
--
- <% for (item in data.forUsers) { %>
- <% let n = data.forUsers[item].id %>
-
- - <%= uxList[n] %> - - <% } %> -
-
- <%- __('techies') %>
--
- <% for (item in data.services) { %>
- <% let b = data.services[item].id %>
-
- - <%= tools[b] %> / - - <% } %> -
-
- <%- __('tuts') %>
--
- <% for (item in data.tutorials) { %>
- <% let n = data.tutorials[item].id %>
-
- - <%= tuts[n] %> - - <% } %> -
- <%- partial('_partial/contributing') %> - - <%- partial('_partial/buttons') %> -
- <%- partial('_partial/generalinfo') %>
-
-
-
-
- <%- partial('_partial/world') %>
-
-
- <%- __('techies') %>
--
- <% for (item in data.services) { %>
- <% let b = data.services[item].id %>
-
- - <%= tools[b] %> / - - <% } %> -
- <%- partial('_partial/contributing') %> - - <%- partial('_partial/buttons') %> -
- <%- partial('_partial/generalinfo') %>
-
-
-
-
- <%- partial('_partial/world') %>
-
-
- <%- __('users') %>
--
- <% for (item in ux) { %>
- <% let n = ux[item].id %>
-
- - <%= uxList[n] %> - - <% } %> -
-
- <%- __('tuts') %>
--
- <% for (item in tutorials) { %>
- <% let n = tutorials[item].id %>
-
- - <%= tuts[n] %> - - <% } %> -
-
- <%- __('forks') %>
--
- <% for (item in data.forks) { %>
-
- - <%= data.forks[item].descr %> - - <% } %> -
- <%- partial('_partial/contributing') %> - - <%- partial('_partial/buttons') %> -
-
-
-
diff --git a/themes/starter/layout/tags.ejs b/themes/starter/layout/tags.ejs
deleted file mode 100644
index 13579b1..0000000
--- a/themes/starter/layout/tags.ejs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-
----
-layout: layout
----
-
-
-
-
-
diff --git a/themes/starter/layout/tools.ejs b/themes/starter/layout/tools.ejs
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index c73b18f..0000000
--- a/themes/starter/layout/tools.ejs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,115 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: layout
----
-
-<%
- function langCount(arr) {
- let langs = [];
- arr.forEach(function(item) {
- let lang = item.codeLanguage;
- if (!lang) {return};
- let check = langs.findIndex(function(x) {return x.language === lang});
- if (check>=0) {
- langs[check].count +=1;
- } else {
- let newLang = {};
- newLang.language = lang;
- newLang.count = 1;
- langs.push(newLang);
- }
- });
- return langs;
- }
-
- const apps = site.data.tools.apps;
- const langList = langCount(apps).sort((a,b) => b.count - a.count);
- const byCategory = [['libs', 'Libraries'], ['specs', 'Specifications'], ['utils', 'Utilities (including bots, daemons)'], ['relays', 'Relays'], ['bridges', 'Bridges'], ['plugins', 'Plugins (addons)'], ['tests', 'Testing'], ['forges', 'Forges'], ['analytics', 'Analytics'], ['other', 'Other']];
- const byProtocol = [['sortDiaspora', 'diaspora'], ['sortAP', 'ActivityPub'], ['sortOstatus', 'OStatus'], ['sortZot', 'Zot']];
-%>
-
-<%- partial('_partial/heroheader') %>
-
-