Fediverse - What is it? (English)
It's the email of social media. Built-In Chaos and thus innovation trough a distributed and decentralized network.
Internet as it was and as it was meant to be.
Fediverse
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The Servers
A multitude of Software. Some centered around Text in various lengths, others on Pictures or Videos.
- Mastodon - Micro Blogging
- Lemmy - Forum
- peerTube - Video and Streaming
- ... hundreds more, above are only a selection of very popular ones.
https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/
The Protocol
The "boring" technical protocol binding them all together
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
The Video
Elena Rossini made a fantastic Video about it all. I highly recommend a watch.
The Try-out
Down the rabbit hole you go: https://fedi.tips/ has a lot of well written explainers about the Fediverse. How to start and also how it works and the philosophy behind it.
Enjoy