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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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! 🤯
Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator
Michael Seraph