Im right now using lemmy/piefed but what other neat projects should i look into as a newcomer to this world?
Im not looking for anything in particular, i just want to expand what i use and see more projects.
Lemmyverse.net is a very useful site to find communities that may not have federated to your instance yet. Especially useful for smaller instances.
So far, I’ve tried and enjoyed:
- Mastodon, a twitter-like microblogging platform
- Peertube, a torrent-based youtube-like video posting and streaming platform
- Pixelfed, an instagram-like image sharing platform
- Matrix, a federated IRC-style chatroom protocol (not really fediverse/activitypub, but still interesting)
- Wafrn, a tumblr-like with support for Bluesky’s AT protocol too!
- Misskey, a unqiue social platform with lots of features, very popular with the Japanese art crowd
- Mbin, another reddit-like with lots of interesting features and a nice interface.
And there are still plenty more that I haven’t really tried yet! The fediverse is pretty huge!
As for recommending specific sites, that’s a bit harder since it’s healthy that not everybody is on the same server. So I would just recommend picking a reasonably popular server with open registration.
mbin mentioned!
Also there’s Sharkey, which is basically Misskey but in English.
Akkoma is like independent Misskey or something.
WriteFreely is a blogging platform.
A small correction about PeerTube. It is not “torrent-based”.
Alright, I’ve changed my description to “peer-to-peer”.
FediDB lists 67 software projects in the Fediverse. Just scroll through it and try whatever suits you.
My personal favorites:
- PieFed (Threadiverse)
- PeerTube (Videos)
- Mastodon (Microblogging)
- Bookwyrm (Books)
And lately I scrolled a bit through Wafrn, it’s a whole different vibe over there. I don’t understand much, but that’s what I love about it.
Can you explain PeerTube? From what I gather, people set up their own instances for their stuff and no instance allows sign ups. So I need to create my own instance in order to even get a feed and notified of new posts?
Bookwyrm is nice, but it only knows about 20% of my Goodreads book shelf.
PieFed can subscribe to peertube channels as if they were communities. https://piefed.social/f/peertube shows some of them.
You can subscribe to a peertube channel with a Mastodon account if you want
Check out the pinned posts at !peertube@lemmy.wtf for an instance to register on and channels to follow.
There are a lot of instances that allow signups. Go to fediverse observer, filter by registration and country, order by active users and you’ll get a decent list.
Or check one of these instances and request an account, just to name a few.
And Lemmy has about 1% of Reddits users but here we are.
i like NeoDB, it’s handy for me to log movies/books/shows/music in one place
Cool, I didn’t know about this. Thank you! :D
You mean other federated sites? Mastodon, Friendica, PeerTube, to name a few.
