Fediverse

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Fed Up!, chronological diagram of federated social web projects, by Lídia Pereira, Artemis Gryllaki and Bohye Woo, Jan 2020. [1] [2]

A resource on Fediverse, federated networks, mesh networks, distributed web, alternative internet, alternative social media, decentralisation.

Software projects

  • Beaker, experimental browser with a p2p protocol, *2016.
  • Conversations, open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android, *2014.
  • Dat, p2p protocol, a project for distributed data synchronization, *2013.
  • Diaspora, self-hosted social networking service, *2010.
  • dokieli, clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions, *2015.
  • Epicyon, federated social network suitable for low power systems.
  • Friendica, distributed social network, *2010.
  • GNU social, FLOSS microblogging server, formerly StatusNet, *2010.
  • Funkwhale, decentralised audio platform, *2019.
  • Hubzilla, communication platform, formerly RedMatrix, *2015. Review.
  • IPFS, protocol and p2p network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system, *2015.
  • Mastodon, self-hosted social networking service, *2016.
  • Misskey, decentralized microblogging service, *2014.
  • PeerTube, federated video platform powered by ActivityPub and WebTorrent, *2018.
  • PixelFed, image sharing platform, *2018.
  • Pump.io, general purpose activity streams engine that can be used as a federated social networking protocol, *2013.
  • Scuttlebutt, decentralised secure gossip platform, *2018.
  • Socialhome, federated personal profile with social networking functionality, *2016.
  • Solid apps
  • WriteFreely, open source platform for building a writing space on the web.
  • YaCy, distributed search engine, *2016.

Protocols: ActivityPub, OStatus, Matrix, XMPP, Solid, Diaspora, Pump.io, Zot, Hypercore.

More projects and context: Wikipedia, Fediverse.party.

Resources, art projects

Events

2014
2015
2016
2017
  • Our Networks, conference, Claude T. Bissell building, Toronto, 14 Jan 2017. First edition.
  • Relearn 2017, Poortgebouw, Rotterdam, 29 Aug-2 Sep 2017. Documentation (2019). More.
  • Radical Networks conference, Chem Creative, Brooklyn, NY, 19-22 Oct 2017. Organised by Sarah Grant and Erica Kermani. Third edition.
  • Peer-to-Peer Web / Los Angeles, series of talks, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, and New York (viewing party), 10 Dec 2017.
2018
2019
2020

Publications

See also

Internet activism


Software
communities of practice

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