Fediverse

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For federated networks, distributed web, mesh networks and federated social media

Mastodon instances

  • post.lurk.org, "an instance for discussions around cultural freedom, experimental, new media art, net and computational culture." Run by LURK; close to Varia. Wider announcement. OC.

  • tldr.nettime is "an instance for artists, researchers, and activists interested in exploring the intersections of technology, culture, and politics. It has grown out of nettime-l." Announcement, [1] [2] [3]. Discussion, [4]

  • Hcommons.social is "a microblogging network supporting scholars and practitioners across the humanities and around the world." Affiliated with Humanities Commons. [5]

  • Social.coop, "a Fediverse instance for people interested in cooperative and collective projects. ... Arose out of the buytwitter.org campaign." About. Loomio. OC.

  • Mastodon.ART, "friendly home on the fediverse for all things creative, all on a platform that is community-owned and ad-free. NO CRYPTOART / NFTs ALLOWED."

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

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

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

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

  • Black Twitter, "Remember when you first heard about Black twitter and thought it was actually a separate website? Was that just me?"

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

  • Zirk.us, "literature, philosophy, film, music, culture, politics, history, architecture: join the circus of the arts and humanities. For readers, writers, academics or anyone wanting to follow the conversation."

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

  • Framapiaf, an instance run by Framasoft, "a not-for-profit popular educational organization."

  • Scholar Social, "a microblogging platform for researchers, grad students, librarians, archivists, undergrads, academically inclined high schoolers, educators of all levels, journal editors, research assistants, professors, administrators—anyone involved in academia who is willing to engage with others respectfully."

  • tilde.zone, "a community that exists on a linux server"

  • Merveilles.town. "Revel in the marvels of the universe." OC.

  • Saturation, "a small group of people who remember when social media was more social, and less media."

  • Sunbeam City, "an anticapitalist, antifascist solarpunk instance that is run collectively." OC.

  • mastodon.social, "server run by the main developers of the project Mastodon. It is not focused on any particular niche interest."

Software

  • Beaker, experimental peer-to-peer Web browser (Hypercore), *2016.
  • 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 Funkwhale, decentralised audio platform (ActivityPub), *2019.
  • Gathio, self-destructing, shareable, no-registration event pages (ActivityPub), *2019. Toot.
  • Hubzilla, communication platform, formerly RedMatrix (Zot, ActivityPub, diaspora, OStatus), *2015. Review.
  • Hypercore/Dat apps
  • IPFS, protocol and p2p network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system, *2015.
  • Lemmy logo.png Lemmy, forums and link aggregation (ActivityPub). Instances. Lemmy.ml communities. Docs.
  • Mastodon logo.svg Mastodon, self-hosted social networking service (ActivityPub), *2016. Instances. Fork: Hometown. How to mastodon.
  • Matrix apps: Element, ...
  • Misskey, decentralized microblogging service (ActivityPub), *2014.
  • Mobilizon, tool for finding, creating and organizing events, *2018.
  • Peertube logo.svg PeerTube, federated video platform powered by ActivityPub and WebTorrent, *2018. Instances: lumbung.space, Rhizome, PublicSpaces, more.
  • Pixelfed logo.png PixelFed, image sharing platform (ActivityPub), *2018. Servers
  • Pleroma, social networking software (ActivityPub), *2019.
  • Scuttlebutt, decentralised secure gossip platform (gossip protocol), *2018.
  • Socialhome, federated personal profile with social networking functionality (ActivityPub, diaspora), *2016.
  • Solid apps
  • 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.

Resources, art projects

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.

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 [12] [13]

Los Angeles

New York

  • 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

London

Toronto

Rotterdam, Brussels, Antwerp, Amsterdam

  • 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

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.

Prague

Basque

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

Philly

more

Publications

Feminist Server Manifesto 0.01, 2014
Theses on Fediverse and FLOSS, 2020
Fedizine, Anarchist Introduction to Federated Social Media, 2022
  • Relearn, "A Feminist Net/work How-to", in Portable Relearn Archive, Jul 2014. Material from the 2014 edition of Relearn, held at Variable, a collectively run F/LOSS Arts Lab in Brussels.
  • Brewster Kahle, "Locking the Web Open", Internet Archive, 1 Apr 2015, 28 min. Video; talk given at the GETDecentralized unconference, San Francisco.
  • Compost, eds. Mai Sutton et al., since Mar 2021. Magazine about the digital commons.

See also VIDEO recordings and websites of events.

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