the future is federated

The fediverse is a new social protocol for everyone

A diverse community of interconnected social platforms powered by ActivityPub.

CC-BY-SA 4.0 by LILA/ZeMarmot

Fediverse project graph

The federation universe

The Fediverse (a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe") is an ensemble of federated (i.e. interconnected) servers that are used for web publishing (i.e. social networking, microblogging, blogging, or websites) and file hosting, but which, while independently hosted, can communicate with each other.

Select a project

Select from dozens of projects, some may be focused on different mediums like photos or videos.

Find or Setup a server

After you select a project, you need to find a server to join or setup your own server.

Join & Explore

Join the server and explore! We can help you discover accounts to follow based on your interests.

Fediverse Features

A familiar set of features across several platforms, we've compiled a list based on the most popular projects of their category (microblogging, video and photo sharing).

FeatureMastodonPleromaPeerTubePixelfedGotoSocial
Microblogs
Photos
Videos
Hashtags
Mentions
Follow accounts
ActivityPub support
TryTryTryTryTry

Discover Mastodon.

Follow friends and discover new ones among more than 8M people. Publish anything you want: links, pictures, text, video. All on a platform that is community-owned and ad-free.

Learn more
......
......