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So you want to join the fediverse? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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I have a draft designed for all types of fediverse software, but i narrowed it down to just threadiverse stuff

This is a guide meant to be linked for beginners, to explain the fediverse in as short time as possible.

Concepts

What's "federation"?

In easy terms; it's a concept where instances seamlessly integrate with each other. Users can talk to each other and participate in their communities. For example, my account is on lemm.ee and the community i am posting to is on slrpnk.net, yet i feel no friction.

What's an instance?

An instance is a server running software, with users, and communities, etc. (Each of these is like a mini-reddit/twitter/etc!) The software part is important, since instances can either be forums, microblogs, video-sharing sites, etc etc. And they can all interact with each other!

What's the "fediverse"?

The fediverse (federation + universe) is a coalition of federated instances running all types of different software, so a user from a forum instance (lemmy) can interact with a user from a microblog instance (mastodon)

Another example is bluesky, but that uses a different protocol, and is much less effective than ActivityPub.

A picture of bluesky, representing how users can interact from different instances.

Why should i use the fediverse over normal social media?

Many reasons. A few:

  • it can never truly die - People can always create software and run instances, and if one goes down, the others will still be up.

  • No one person controls the fediverse. We are all on equal grounds.

  • Unlike corporations who back social media platforms, fedi is 100% ran by normal people. You can talk to developers, instance hosters, the mods, all as normal people, and they (unless you use their server) have no control over you.

  • There is no need to appeal to advertisers

  • Freedom of choice. Disagree with an instance's values, or a developer's? Easy, defederate or just don't use their software. You will still have the fediverse as a whole accessible to you, without the parts you do not like.

I'm convinced! How do i begin?

Excellent!

First you must choose what software you want your instance of choosing to run:

  • Lemmy if you care about apps
  • Piefed if you care about features/fast development, or a lightweight instance
  • Mbin if you want both your blog and forum account in the same place

Instances

Lemmy

Piefed

Mbin

Apps/clients [everything after this point is optional]

some people may not like the default frontends or want to access their instance through mobile, here is a curated list:

Lemmy

Mbin

Communities

Here are some good community recommendations, based on topics:

Memes

Software

Politics

Casual

Knowledge

History

Animals

Art

Postface

That's about all there's left for you; have fun!

Finally... im done writing this...

Sisyphus carrying a boulder to the top of a mountain.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Great stuff, but the opensource com on programming.dev is spelled without an underscore :) maybe also add https://reddthat.com/c/imaginary as a rec?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh my god, i just posted this from the old community and didn't realize the errors.. thank you!

will add your community, too :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you are planning to send this to like Reddit, BlueSky, X, etc., and since you are mentioning location-specific communities like [email protected], you may want to add [email protected]. It's not only helpful for Americans to know about, it's helpful for non-Americans to have Americans know about, so as to avoid flooding every international community with content that would be a better fit there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If only they listened... I'll add it, thanks for reminding me :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Really good post. Thank you for this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Thank you! :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for typing this up!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

There's also [email protected] as an alternative to [email protected]. It seems to be part of an effort by the moderator of the latter community to move the userbase to the newer community.

I like the more inclusive name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fixed! Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also, please put alt text for your inline images. In case you're not aware, it is done like ![alt text](image url).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks, done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Cool, we can add it to the wiki of [email protected]

We could also invite people to co-write guides. @[email protected] are you interested ? :3

And can you change jlai.lu to french speaking ? Shere are belgian, swiss too. :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've changed it to francophone, thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think I've written enough lately, thanks 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ahah same but in french. Any guide you would recommend us ?

Collaborative editing can help us updating them and sharing maintenance of these guide. So i will turn them into wiki page on PieFed. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Thank i'm copying blindly than rework it later. I will probably translate some of my french guide. They are more pratical :)