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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LuísaOct 30, 2022
Show threadMastodon•ART 🎨 Curator

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! 🤯

Apr 27, 2022 at 12:45pmWeb
Show threadBen RamseyApr 27, 2022
@Curator I didn’t know about Bookwyrm! Thanks!
Show threadEth4nZApr 27, 2022
@Curator #bookwyrm sounds sick, will check it out
Show threadMastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorApr 27, 2022
@e4 It's great! Depending what instance you end up on (as with masto, different people host their own), you might need to manually add book info for whatever you're reading - but that's fun too :D
Show threadEth4nZApr 27, 2022
@Curator sweet! Thank you. I'm trying out pixelfed too
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 Which thing specifically? Mastodon?
Show threadMastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorApr 27, 2022
@breakingvalhalla Or do you just mean how to have accounts across these things?
Show threadbreakingvalhallaApr 27, 2022
@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
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
Show threadvriska, thief of light Apr 27, 2022
@Curator also writefreely for blogging
Show threadpronounenjoyerApr 27, 2022
@Curator #bookwyrm sounds awesome as hell I'm definitely gonna have to look into it
Show threadMia V. MossApr 27, 2022
@Curator #Bookwyrm sounds intriguing 👀 I'm going to have to check it out. Thanks for mentioning it!
Show threadThaissaApr 27, 2022
@Curator @nippan
Show threadSusanna Pujol🏳️‍🌈Apr 27, 2022
@Curator It sounds awesome!
Show threadAlex, the Hearth FireApr 27, 2022
@Curator is write.as still up?
Show threadMastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorApr 27, 2022
@WizardOfDocs Looks like it!
Show threadMrs Mouse at workApr 27, 2022
@Curator funkwhale seems like it's for bands self-publishing, right?
Show threadMastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorApr 27, 2022
@MrsMouse And individuals! I'm on there to post my musical bits and bobs on occasion :)
Show threadMichael SeraphApr 27, 2022
@Curator Very informative, thanks! Does that mean that all platforms of the fediverse are open source?
Show threadMastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorApr 27, 2022
@michaelseraph Generally yes, I think all the main ones are, but I wouldn't like to say definitely absolutely yes just in case XD
Show threadnieebelApr 27, 2022

@Curator and all of them have some instances available running 100% with #renewableEnergy ;)

https://greenfediverse.codeberg.page/green-instances/

#GreenFediverse #greenIT @greenfediverse

Instances overview

Show threadMastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorApr 27, 2022
@aligyie @greenfediverse Nice!!
Show threadmsmouseApr 27, 2022
@Curator BTW I love peertube, but running it takes big disks. I will probably set up a bookwyrm soonish. I've been eyeing pixelfed since before it actually supported federation so might set that up soon
Show threadMastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorApr 27, 2022
@MsMouse Yeah, I think I saw recently that Pixelfed is still early dev unstable-ish but starting to get okay for people to run their own if they kinda know what they're doing. And yeah I imagine peertube is a bit wild on disk space :O
Show threadSmittyHalibutApr 28, 2022
@Curator hey @Jon of potential interest to you? ^^
Show threadmaize 🎶💜🌻Oct 30, 2022
@Curator I really want peertube to enable live streaming. I need off of Twitch/TikTok
Show thread@reiver ⊼ (Charles) Oct 30, 2022

@Curator

The list of Fediverse software I'm currently aware of is —

• bookwyrm
• castopod
• diaspora
• friendica
• funkwhale
• gitea
• gnusocial
• gotosocial
• hubzilla
• lemmy
• mastodon
• misskey
• owncast
• peertube
• pixelfed
• pleroma
• writefreely

(List from: https://github.com/reiver/fediverse-0 )

GitHub - reiver/fediverse-0: A list of the people who created and continue to develop the Fediverse technology.

A list of the people who created and continue to develop the Fediverse technology. - GitHub - reiver/fediverse-0: A list of the people who created and continue to develop the Fediverse technology.

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