







A curated list of fediverse software that offer decentralized social networking services based on the W3C ActivityPub family of related protocols. See also 💎 delightful fediverse development.
Fediverse
The Fediverse is a collection of social networking services that can communicate with each other using a common protocol. Users of different websites can send and receive status updates, multimedia files and other data across the network. The term Fediverse is a portmanteau of federation and universe.
Fediverse projects - Join the Fediverse
Fediverse projects are the different software parts of the Fediverse. Many of them are replacements for better-known social media platforms.

The Fediverse Explained: Social Media’s Next Form
The fediverse is a network of social media platforms that are interconnected. Find the answers to fediverse FAQs here.

Revealing the fediverse's gifts
If they’re motivated, tooled up, and plugged into communities of support fediverse server teams can provide context-sensitive, high-touch local moderation for their members—while also connecting to a broad landscape of other well-governed servers. But can new fediverse members find them?

There is One Fediverse. There are a Million Fediverses.
Over the past several years I’ve listened to admins, mods, and community managers from across the decentralised social media landscape. I’ve been in the chats, attended the conferences,…

Fedify
Fedify is a TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub and other standards, so-called fediverse.

Mathieu Lefebvre — Product Designer
For several months now, I have been passionate about decentralized social networks. A federated social network is a platform composed of independent servers that communicate with each other using common protocols.

FOSDEM 2026 - How to level up the fediverse
The fediverse isn't done! Or, at least, that's the opinions of ActivityPub co-authors Christine Lemmer-Webber and Jessica Tallon! Discover how we could improve the fediverse with ActivityPub-compatible improvements to add more robust and secure communication/cooperation patterns, decentralized storage and identity, etc! Plus: how Spritely is starting to apply its technology towards exactly this goal, bringing Spritely's next-generation internet tech to the fediverse!




pamela :flan_butterfly: (@pamela@bsd.network)
Content warning: Hacky folks, please resist finding ways to scrape the fediverse, build archives, automate tools and connect to people via bot without their consent.
The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization
Sure, we have open source, federated replacements for Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube. How do we get creators to use this stuff? One consideration involves the ability to pay for things.
FEP-1042: Peer to Peer Fediverse Identities
Hey folks, we at [Distributed Press](https://distributed.press) have been working on making a bridge between peer to peer or "dweb" protocols and ActivityPub implementations over the past year and wanted to solidify our approach so that others can interoperate. Here's is an initial draft expla...
Proboscidean

Pinkleap
Social Network User Data Storage

Diego :mastodon: (@diegopds@bolha.us)

Whom to Follow | Find New Fediverse Accounts
Como ajudar alguém que nada de braçada no Twitter a vir molhar os pés no Mastodon antes de decidir mergulhar: a thread, (…) – post arquivado de social.br-linux.org