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The #Fediverse list of services is growing: * #Mastodon – #microblogging #twitterdown * #Peertube – #videosharing #youtube * #Pixelfed – #photosharing #instagram * #Friendica – #socialnetwork #facebook * #Pleroma – #microblogging #twitter * #Lemmy – #linkaggregator #reddit * #Nextcloudsocial – #filesharing #filehosting * #Mobilizon – #eventplanner #facebookevents * #Funkwhale & #Reel2Bits – #audiosharing #soundcloud * #WriteFreely – #Federated #Blogging #Plume #diaspora – #Decentralised #SocialMedia #Facebook #Alternative #GNUsocial – #Federated #MicroBlogging #misskey – #Distributed #Microblogging #LBRY – #Video #Sharing #Decentralized #Blockchain Coming soon * #flockingbird – #professionalnetworking #LinkedIn

Others not on the Fediverse but still useful

#OpenStreetMap – alt to google / bing maps

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A really good article on how to run your own social instance, from Terrance @terrancebrown@mastodon.social

Some really good tips here https://runyourown.social/

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With the Fediverse expanding it is really nice to have some great resources to explain how both the Fedivese ad in this case Mastodon work. This explanation is from torresjrjr

• https://torresjrjr.com/archive/2020-07-19-guide-to-the-fediverse

There is also a video on Peertube below.

• https://torresjrjr.com/archive/2020-07-20-what-is-the-fediverse

More resources will be posted shortly, in the mean time you can sign up here

After which this website useful to help you find people with similar interests.

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If you are using Wordpress and would like to federate to Mastodon for example then this article on the wordpress website may be useful.

Thank you to Feditips for posting this to Mastodon.

You can follow the Activity Pub Plugin Author here

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I found this on the Fediverse last year, so am sharing again as it was originally shared on the Devon & Cornwall Linux user group website. 

• https://podsearch.com/

As the name suggests this allows you to search for a pod cast in a good range of topics.

Libre Lounge is another podcast that has covered different aspects of the Fediverse, this includes some of the more technical aspects including a multipart discussion on Activity Pub.   Activity pub is one of the protocols that allows posts to be federated across the network.

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You can follow this blog by checking back daily or if you are on a ActivityPub enabled fediverse instance, for example, Mastodon, you can follow

** RSS Feed :** RSS Feed ** Fediverse :** @paulsutton@personaljournal.ca

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