fediverse-beyond-mastodon - Federated Mind

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Forums, Reading, and Music on the Fediverse

Lemmy, kbin, and PieFed rebuild Reddit as a federation of communities. NodeBB and Discourse bring old-school forums onto the same protocol. BookWyrm tracks reading without selling data, and Funkwhale and Bandwagon do the same for music. Different formats, one open protocol.

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The Written Fediverse: Where the Words Live

Ghost, WriteFreely, Micro.blog, Plume, WordPress, and Flipboard didn't all arrive at federation the same way. Some built it in from the first commit. Some bridged it onto a product that already existed. Federation decides how far the writing travels.

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The Visual Fediverse: Where Photos and Videos Live Outside the Algorithm

Pixelfed, Loops, PeerTube, and a Flickr that never quite federated. The visual fediverse isn't one Instagram clone. It's an ecosystem where your photos and videos live on infrastructure you control, federate by default, and no algorithm decides who sees them.

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The Rest of the Ecosystem: Misskey, Pleroma, Friendica & more

Mastodon is the platform most people land on but it's not the only thing growing on the reef. Misskey built an expression-first culture. Friendica has been bridging networks since 2010. GoToSocial made the personal instance practical. In this post we cover all these and more.