Difference between revisions of "Fediverse"

From Monoskop
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(Added pan.rent to the list of Mastodon instances)
(Added “Knitting Our Internet” to projects list)
(One intermediate revision by the same user not shown)
Line 98: Line 98:
  
 
* [https://beakerbrowser.com/ Beaker], experimental peer-to-peer Web browser (Hypercore), *2016.
 
* [https://beakerbrowser.com/ Beaker], experimental peer-to-peer Web browser (Hypercore), *2016.
 +
 +
* [[File:Bonfire_logo.png|50px]] [https://bonfirenetworks.org/ Bonfire], modular and cooperative Fediverse software written in Elixir. An <q>open, community-first social infrastructure. A digital commons where people gather, co-create, and care together</q>.
  
 
* [[File:bookwyrm_logo.png|50px]] [https://bookwyrm.social/ Bookwyrm], federated platform for reading and reviewing (Activitypub), *2021. <code>[https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/ Instances]</code>
 
* [[File:bookwyrm_logo.png|50px]] [https://bookwyrm.social/ Bookwyrm], federated platform for reading and reviewing (Activitypub), *2021. <code>[https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/ Instances]</code>
Line 117: Line 119:
 
* [https://friendi.ca/ Friendica], decentralized social network, formerly Mistpark (diaspora, OStatus, pump.io, ActivityPub), *2010.
 
* [https://friendi.ca/ Friendica], decentralized social network, formerly Mistpark (diaspora, OStatus, pump.io, ActivityPub), *2010.
  
−
* [[File:funkwhale_logo.svg|50px]] [https://funkwhale.audio/ Funkwhale], decentralised audio platform (ActivityPub), *2019.
+
* [[File:funkwhale_logo.svg|50px]] [https://funkwhale.audio/ Funkwhale][[File:Bonfire_logo.png|50px]] , decentralised audio platform (ActivityPub), *2019.
  
 
* [https://gath.io/ Gathio], self-destructing, shareable, no-registration event pages (ActivityPub), *2019. [https://friend.camp/@darius/103398661253205349 Toot].
 
* [https://gath.io/ Gathio], self-destructing, shareable, no-registration event pages (ActivityPub), *2019. [https://friend.camp/@darius/103398661253205349 Toot].
Line 179: Line 181:
 
* [https://the-federation.info/ The Federation], gathers statistics about nodes in the fediverse.  
 
* [https://the-federation.info/ The Federation], gathers statistics about nodes in the fediverse.  
 
* [https://fediverse.network/ Fediverse Network], gathers statistics of ActivityPub/oStatus fediverse.
 
* [https://fediverse.network/ Fediverse Network], gathers statistics of ActivityPub/oStatus fediverse.
 +
* <cite>[https://ournet.rocks/ Knitting Our Internet]</cite>, an interactive journey through the history of the Internet, and a collective rethinking of its future. Participatory in-person workshop about decentralization and political technology.
  
 
==Publications==
 
==Publications==

Revision as of 19:03, 7 December 2025

For distributed, federated and mesh networks and social media

Mastodon instances

  • post.lurk.org, "community for discussions around net- and computational culture and politics, proto- and post-free culture practices, (experimental) (sound) (new media) (software) art, and things like that." Run by LURK; close to Varia. Wider announcement. Open Collective.

  • tldr.nettime is "instance for artists, researchers, and activists interested in exploring the intersections of technology, culture, and politics. Grown out of nettime-l." Announcement, [5] [6] [7]. Discussion, [8]. Donorbox.

  • Kolektiva, "anti-colonial anarchist collective that offers federated social media to anarchist collectives and individuals in the fediverse. For the social movements and liberation!"

  • assemblag.es, "instance for people interested in thinking creatively and critically about technology, in the broadest sense."

  • Zirk.us, "literature, philosophy, film, music, culture, politics, history, architecture: join the circus of the arts and humanities." Patreon.

  • Social.coop, "instance for people interested in cooperative and collective projects. ... Arose out of the buytwitter.org campaign." About, [9]. Wiki. Loomio. Open Collective.

  • Hcommons.social, "microblogging network supporting scholars and practitioners across the humanities and around the world." Affiliated with Knowledge Commons. [10]

  • Hachyderm, "safe space, LGBTQIA+ and BLM, primarily comprised of tech industry professionals world wide."

  • Typo.social, "home for type designers, typographers, letterers, fontworkers, calligraphers, tool builders, foundries, historians, scholars, students and enthusiasts."

  • Mamot.fr est "un serveur Mastodon francophone, géré par La Quadrature du Net."

  • SoNoMu (Sound Noise Music), "instance for musicians, sound-artists, producers of any kind of aural noise, songwriters, bedroom producers, sonic manglers and algorave livecoders."

  • SDF.ORG "began life as a StatusNet instance in 2010 and was converted to Mastodon in 2017. A few of our members are artists/DJs and have shows on aNONradio.net"

  • chaos.social, "Fediverse instance for & by the Chaos community", affiliated with Chaos Computer Club.

  • mastodon.design, "welcomes all makers and designers who love to build things and talk about them."

  • autonomous.zone, "cozy anarchist social media for the coming days."

  • digipres.club, instance for those "involved in digital preservation - either professionally or on an amateur/volunteer basis."

  • Merveilles.town, "revel in the marvels of the universe." Open Collective.

  • mastodon.gamedev.place, "game development and many related fields."

  • systerserver.town, "feminist space for the community of technologists, researchers, activists and artists which has emerged from systerserver and other feminist servers projects."

  • tilde.zone, "digital community of linux servers for socializing, learning, and making cool stuff."

  • Sunbeam City, "young cooperative of individuals whose mission is to promote what we believe to be the values of the solarpunk movement." Open Collective.

  • Pan.rent, A tiny, tight, warm, improbable community of curious dreamers. Feminist, Anti-Fascist, Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Zionist.

  • mastodon.social, "the original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit." Other general instances: mastodon.online, mstdn.social, mas.to, mastodon.world.

  • Fedi.garden, a small curated selection of Fediverse servers which have promised to meet certain standards of reliability and responsible moderation.
  • Feminist Tech, people and organisations on Mastodon prioritising feminist perspectives, women’s rights and movement building in the use of information and communications technology.

Software

  • Akkoma, microblogging server software (ActivityPub). Fork of Pleroma.
  • Beaker, experimental peer-to-peer Web browser (Hypercore), *2016.
  • Bonfire logo.png Bonfire, modular and cooperative Fediverse software written in Elixir. An open, community-first social infrastructure. A digital commons where people gather, co-create, and care together.
  • Bookwyrm logo.png Bookwyrm, federated platform for reading and reviewing (Activitypub), *2021. Instances
  • Castopod logo.png Castopod, podcast self-hosting with Fediverse interaction.
  • Conversations, open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android, *2014.
  • Delta Chat, chat app that sends messages via e-mails, encrypted if possible, with Autocrypt
  • Diaspora, self-hosted social networking service (diaspora), *2010.
  • Distributed Press, open source publishing tool for the World Wide Web and DWeb; automates publishing and hosting content to the WWW that it seeds to Hypercore and IPFS, *2021.
  • dokieli, clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions (Solid, Linked Data, ActivityPub), *2015. Paper. #semanticweb #linkeddata
  • Epicyon, federated social network suitable for low power systems.
  • Friendica, decentralized social network, formerly Mistpark (diaspora, OStatus, pump.io, ActivityPub), *2010.
  • Funkwhale logo.svg FunkwhaleBonfire logo.png , decentralised audio platform (ActivityPub), *2019.
  • Gathio, self-destructing, shareable, no-registration event pages (ActivityPub), *2019. Toot.
  • Guppe, brings social groups to the fediverse.
  • Hubzilla, communication platform, formerly RedMatrix (Zot, ActivityPub, diaspora, OStatus), *2015. Review.
  • IPFS, protocol and p2p network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system, *2015.
  • Loops, short video sharing platform, *2024. In the process of implementing ActivityPub. Made by Pixelfed.
  • Misskey, decentralized microblogging service (ActivityPub), *2014.
  • Mobilizon, tool for finding, creating and organizing events, *2018.
  • Piefed logo.png PieFed, federated discussion and link aggregation platform, Lemmy clone. Instance.
  • Pleroma, social networking software (ActivityPub), *2019. See also Akkoma.
  • Scuttlebutt, decentralised secure gossip platform (gossip protocol), *2018. [13]
  • Socialhome, federated personal profile with social networking functionality (ActivityPub, diaspora), *2016.
  • WriteFreely, open source platform for building a writing space on the web (ActivityPub).
  • YaCy, distributed search engine, *2016.

Protocols: ActivityPub (W3C recommendation, *2018), Solid (*2016), Hypercore (formerly Dat Protocol), Zot (evolved from DFRN, *2015), Matrix (*2014), Pump.io (evolved from OStatus, *2011), Diaspora (*2010), OStatus (formerly OpenMicroBlogging, *2008), XMPP (formerly Jabber, *1999).

More projects and context: Fediverse.party, Wikipedia.

Note: Matrix, Solid, IPFS, Hypercore and YaCy have a distributed architecture, but may not be part of the Fediverse in the strict sense because they are not compatible with any of its integral protocols such as ActivityPub, Zot, Diaspora, and OStatus, although a server running ActivityPub could theoretically be bridged to, for example, Matrix and vice versa. cf.

Resources, art projects

Publications

Feminist Server Manifesto 0.01, 2014
Theses on Fediverse and FLOSS, 2020
Trans*feminist servers..., 2022–
Fedizine, Anarchist Introduction to Federated Social Media, 2022
International Trans★Feminist Digital Depletion Strike, 2023
A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers, 2023
  • Relearn, "A Feminist Net/work How-to", in Portable Relearn Archive, July 2014. Material from the 2014 edition of Relearn, held at Variable, a collectively run F/LOSS Arts Lab in Brussels.
  • Compost, eds. Mai Sutton et al., March 2021 ff. Magazine about the digital commons.
  • Free Fediverse: Essays, ed. Ophiocephalic, June 2023 ff. Thinkpieces on the Meta crisis and on how to save and protect the fediverse from capitalist enclosure.
  • Robert W. Gehl, Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media, Oxford University Press, Oct 2025, 240 pp. Book website. Publisher. [27] [28]

See also VIDEO recordings and websites of events.

Events

Portland, OR

Berlin

  • Federated Social Web Europe, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin, 3-5 Jun 2011. Open event on Social Web interoperability, standards and privacy. Supported and co-organised by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and by the EU FP7 PrimeLife project. The local organization was done under the label “d-cent” and by the independent institute PerGlobal.
  • Radical Networks conference, Spektrum, Berlin, 19-21 Oct 2018. Organised by Sarah Grant and Erica Kermani. Fourth edition.

Limassol

Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels, Antwerp

  • Unlike Us 2, TrouwAmsterdam, Amsterdam, 8-10 Mar 2012. The second event on ‘alternatives in social media’, where artists, designers, scholars, activists and programmers gather.
  • Unlike Us 3, TrouwAmsterdam and Studio HvA / MediaLAB, Amsterdam, 22-23 Mar 2013. Last edition of the conference.
  • Public Spaces, conference, Amsterdam, 17-18 May 2022. Organised by a coalition of public organizations in the Netherlands that aims to promote a healthier online environment. Mastodon. Castopod (podcasts). VIDEO

Brighton

Bay Area

  • GETDecentralized! (GET-D), The Red Victorian, 1665 Haight St, San Francisco, 31 Mar-2 Apr 2015. "An evening of conversation, celebration and community-building around new ideas in decentralization." Organised by Joachim Lohkamp. Attended by about fifty participants, incl. Brewster Kahle from the Internet Archive. VIDEO [39] [40]

Los Angeles

New York and East Coast

  • Radical Networks, conference, Integrated Digital Media at Magnet NYU, Brooklyn, NY, 24-25 Oct 2015. Organised by Sarah Grant, Erica Kermani, and Amelia Marzec, in partnership with Eyebeam. Radical Networks, conference, Chem Creative, Brooklyn, NY, 4-6 Nov 2016. Organised by Sarah Grant, Erica Kermani, and Amelia Marzec, in partnership with Eyebeam. Exhibition photographs. Radical Networks, conference, Chem Creative, Brooklyn, NY, 19-22 Oct 2017. Organised by Sarah Grant and Erica Kermani. Radical Networks conference, Prime Produce, New York, 18-20 Oct 2019. VIDEO

Linz, Graz

Barcelona

London

Toronto

online (only)

  • Dat Conference 2020, online, 30-31 Jul 2020. Virtual peer to peer event about local-first tech and meetup space for those interested in the decentralized web.
  • DecentSocial 2023, online, 11 Feb 2023. An unconference for the builders of the decentralized social web. Toots.
  • FediForum, online, 28-30 Mar 2023; 19-21 Sep 2023; 18-20 Mar 2024; 12-14 Sep 2024; 5-7 Jun 2025. An unconference for thinkers and doers who build the new Open Social Web.

Prague

Basque

  • THX, Ozaraine, Basque country, 10-20 Jul 2022.

Philly

more


Retrieved from "https://monoskop.org/index.php?title=Fediverse&oldid=139106"