Share via Share via... Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Pinterest Telegram WhatsApp Yammer RedditRecent ChangesSend via e-MailPrintPermalink × Table of Contents The Fediverse What is it The 3 important conditions to call a project “a fediverse project” What are Fediverse Projects and Networks More Projects and Infos What makes Friendica so special in the fediverse? The Fediverse What is it The word fediverse is a combination of the words Federation, like federated nations, and Universe. It indicates that there is no single entity controlling the whole network. There are lots of diverse places like planets in a universe or like villages on a planet. Each may have different cultures, languages, interests, etc. but they are connected via a communication protocol (Activity Pub/OStatus) so that they can interact. You already have an example of this with your telephone. You can communicate with people that are customers of other telephone companies without having to be a customer of each of them. The 3 important conditions to call a project “a fediverse project” It is distributed. There is not ONE single provider. There are many providers - some small, some huge. Users can interact with each other (follow, like, comment). It is Open Source. What are Fediverse Projects and Networks There are many fediverse social networks with different taste and goals. Discussion: Friendica, Mastodon, Hubzilla, Pleroma, SocialHome, Misskey. GNU Social, Diaspora Pictures/Images: Pixelfed Audio/Video: PeerTube, Funkwhale Blogging: WriteFreely, Plume, Wordpress-Plugin More Projects and Infos https://the-federation.info/#projects https://fediverse.party/ What makes Friendica so special in the fediverse? Friendica's philosophy is to communicate with everybody. As of 2020, Friendica is able to communicate via ActivityPub, Diaspora*, OStatus, Twitter, RSS Feeds and several other protocols. So you don't need a lot of different tools, software or apps. You can just connect to your information sources and you will see that they appear in your timeline. Last modified: 2021-11-11 13:31 Log In