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Welcome to the Join the Fediverse Wiki
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This site is still under heavy construction.
It is supposed to be a first contact point for people who are just hearing about the Fediverse for the first time.
But there will also be pages for advanced users.
🚀 Official launch will be 2022-01-01!🚀
If you want to help edit this Wiki please read Join the Fediverse:About.
What is the Fediverse?
Main article: What is the Fediverse?
The Fediverse is a giant network of social media platforms.
It consists of the platforms listed below (and many more) and they can all communicate with each other.
What are Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, ...?
What is Mastodon?
Main article: What is Mastodon?
Mastodon is a microblogging platform like Twitter.
Microblogging means you have a blog with short (micro) posts. Usually you'll have a 500 characters limit for your posts.
What is Pixelfed?
Main article: What is Pixelfed?
Pixelfed is a photoblogging platform like Instagram.
You can only create posts with images, but of course you can add text.
What is PeerTube?
Main article: What is PeerTube?
PeerTube is a videoblogging Platform like Youtube or Vimeo.
You can upload and share videos with people all over the Fediverse.
What is Friendica?
Main article: What is Friendica?
Friendica is a Social Network like Facebook.
Post text, pictures & videos only for the eyes of your family or friends or share them with the Fediverse.
What is Lemmy?
Main article: What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a link aggregator like Reddit.
You can post links, images and text posts that people can vote and comment on.
What is WriteFreely?
Main article: What is WriteFreely?
WriteFreely is a (macro-)blogging Platform like Blogger.
You can create beautiful blogs, diaries and books.
What is an Instance?
Instances are the servers the Fediverse is made of. Each instance, big or small, can have it's own set of rules and content it allows or encourages.
Basically an instance is it's own social media site: The local timeline displays everything posted by users on your instance.
But there is also a federated timeline, where you see every post by users your instance knows. And the home timeline shows everything by users you follow, no matter if they are on your instance or another.
How do I get an account?
Main article: How do I get an account?
If you just want to get to know the Fediverse experience you can start by creating a profile on mastodon.social or mastodon.online.
You can later move instances or create accounts on different instances and projects.
For more info on finding the right instance and creating an account click the link above.
Further questions?
If you have questions about the Fediverse you can ask them in the forum Fediverse Town.
Further reading
Getting started with your Fediverse account
External Links
Fediverse Observer - find instances based on filters
Fediverse Party - info about some Fediverse projects
Social Search - find people across the Fediverse