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Welcome to the Join the Fediverse Wiki
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.
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.
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.
What is Friendica?
Main article: What is Friendica?
Friendica is a Social Network like Facebook.
What is WriteFreely?
Main article: What is WriteFreely?
WriteFreely is a (macro-)blogging Platform like WordPress.
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?
Getting started with your Fediverse account
Main article: Getting started with your Fediverse account
Further questions?
If you have questions about the Fediverse you can ask them in the forum Fediverse Town.
Further reading
External Links
Fediverse Observer - find instances based on filters
Fediverse Party - info about some Fediverse projects
Social Search - find people across the Fediverse