fediverse-beyond-mastodon
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.
fediverse-beyond-mastodon
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.
fediverse-beyond-mastodon
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.
federation-across-networks
Part 3 of Federation Across Networks. Part 1 covered Bridgy Fed and AT Protocol. Part 2 covered Threads' entry into the Fediverse. This series sits inside the broader Exploring the Fediverse umbrella.
exploring-mastodon
Four posts on how the open social web works - from federation basics to server governance. Also out: free ebook + 57-min audiobook.
Fediverse
The internet used to be connected. Then it wasn't. Here's the movement trying to fix that — and why it matters for every creator online.