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Fediverse: joined by ActivityPub

I have  LOT of experience hosting and working with a broad variety of Fediverse services. They are a 'parallel open universe' of social networking services that are community-run, decentralised, open, libre, and (usually) non-profit. The Fediverse contains analogues to the many well-known proprietary corporate-run centralised for-profit social media services. The huge difference with the Fediverse is that they are all tied together by a common protocol, ActivityPub. That is the killer feature.

I participate and host (and have hosted) platforms like

  • Mastodon - https://mastodon.nzoss.nz (since 2017), https://mastodon.oeru.org, https://social.fossdle.org, https://mastodon.milll.ws (replaces Twitter/X or BlueSky or Threads)
  • Peertube - https://vid.fossdle.org (replaces Youtube)
  • Pixelfed - https://pic.fossdle.org (replaces Instagram)
  • Write.Freely - https://write.fossdle.org (replace Medium)
  • PieFed - https://link.fossdle.org ((replaces Reddit) - previous incarnations: Kbin & Lemmy - decommissioned in favour of PieFed)
  • Mobilizon - https://events.nzoss.nz, https://events.oeru.org, https://events.magnificent.nz (replaces Facebook events)
  • Takahē - https://activity.fossdle.org (a multi-domain Fediverse server, like many Mastodons in one. Mastodon-client-compatible)
  • OwnCast - https://stream.fossdle.org (replaces Twitch or Facebook Streaming)
  • BookWyrm - https://read.iridescent.nz (replaces GoodReads)

In addition, I run a number of WordPress sites with the ActivityPub plugin, which allows people in the Fediverse to follow your blog posts in their feed!

For a (fairly) current list of the Fediverse services I run, see https://nzoss.nz/services or https://tech.oeru.org (latest roll call: https://tech.oeru.org/updating-oer-foundation-web-services-february-2023).

I run all of these services via Docker Compose, which provides huge flexibility and very cost/time-efficient maintenance over time.

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