Mastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorApr 27, 2022

On the difference between Mastodon and Fediverse!

Mastodon is an open source social media platform that anyone can install and run on their own server to host their own communities like .art.

Fediverse is a contraction of Federated Universe. This is used as a catch-all term to include sites running software that can federate (communicate). They usually all run a thing called ActivityPub, which is the magic that lets them talk to each other.

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Show threadMastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorApr 27, 2022

Whereas Mastodon is a social media / microblogging platform, there are other federated sites that offer different uses.

#PeerTube: like YouTube, an open source replacement for video hosting
#FunkWhale: Like SoundCloud, for music
#Bookwyrm: Like Goodreads
#Pixelfed: like Instagram, offers image galleries

All of these, including Masto, can talk to each other - so you can create an account on a Bookwyrm instance to keep track of your reading, and people on Masto can follow it! 🤯

Show threadbreakingvalhallaApr 27, 2022
@Curator I’m new to masto so this is super interesting to find out! Could you maybe provide a link on how to get this setup for a n00b?
Show threadMastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorApr 27, 2022
@breakingvalhalla Or do you just mean how to have accounts across these things?
Show threadbreakingvalhalla
@Curator yes that’s correct. How to have accounts across these services, how to link them together or find people to follow across the services. J
Apr 27, 2022 at 1:48pmWeb
Show threadMastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorApr 27, 2022
@breakingvalhalla Just like you chose to have your mastodon account on mastodon.online, all of the different components of the fediverse (bookwyrm, funkwhale, etc) have their own servers run by individuals. You'll have to find one that you like and create an account there. The only way to 'link' them is to put the URLs of your accounts in your profiles, and if you for example post a piece of music to your funkwhale account, you can boost it from your masto account