I have a draft designed for all types of fediverse software, but i narrowed it down to just threadiverse stuff

This is a guide meant to be linked for beginners, to explain the fediverse in as short time as possible.

Concepts

What's "federation"?

In easy terms; it's a concept where instances seamlessly integrate with each other. Users can talk to each other and participate in their communities. For example, my account is on lemm.ee and the community i am posting to is on slrpnk.net, yet i feel no friction.

What's an instance?

An instance is a server running software, with users, and communities, etc. (Each of these is like a mini-reddit/twitter/etc!) The software part is important, since instances can either be forums, microblogs, video-sharing sites, etc etc. And they can all interact with each other!

What's the "fediverse"?

The fediverse (federation + universe) is a coalition of federated instances running all types of different software, so a user from a forum instance (lemmy) can interact with a user from a microblog instance (mastodon)

Another example is bluesky, but that uses a different protocol, and is much less effective than ActivityPub.

Why should i use the fediverse over normal social media?

Many reasons. A few:

• it can never truly die - People can always create software and run instances, and if one goes down, the others will still be up.

• No one person controls the fediverse. We are all on equal grounds.

• Unlike corporations who back social media platforms, fedi is 100% ran by normal people. You can talk to developers, instance hosters, the mods, all as normal people, and they (unless you use their server) have no control over you.

• There is no need to appeal to advertisers

• Freedom of choice. Disagree with an instance's values, or a developer's? Easy, defederate or just don't use their software. You will still have the fediverse as a whole accessible to you, without the parts you do not like.

I'm convinced! How do i begin?

Excellent!

First you must choose what software you want your instance of choosing to run:

• Lemmy if you care about apps
• Piefed if you care about features/fast development, or a lightweight instance
• Mbin if you want both your blog and forum account in the same place

Instances

Lemmy

• lemm.ee, discuss.online, sopuli.xyz for general instances
• jlai.lu for francophones
• feddit.cl for chile
• lemmy.ca for canada
• feddit.org for german speakers
• programming.dev for a programming instance
• slrpnk.net/lemmy.dbzer0.com for leftist/anarchist instances

Piefed

• piefed.social for the flagship instance
• feddit.online for an NA instance

Mbin

• kbin.earth, fedia.io, kbin.melroy.org, thebrainbin.org, moist.catsweat.com for general instances
• rimworld.gallery for rimworld content
• cesto.garden for a leftist [italian] instance
• m.a9press.com for a korean instance

Apps/clients [everything after this point is optional]

some people may not like the default frontends or want to access their instance through mobile, here is a curated list:

Lemmy

• Photon [PC]
• Alexandrite [PC]
• Tesseract [PC]
• Voyager [MOBILE]
• Mlem [IOS]
• Arctic [IOS]
• Raccoon [ANDROID]
• Jerboa [ANDROID]
• Connect [ANDROID, NOT FOSS]
• Thunder [MOBILE]
• Interstellar [ANDROID]

Mbin

• Interstellar [ANDROID]

Communities

Here are some good community recommendations, based on topics:

Memes

• !funny@sh.itjust.works
• !programmer_humor@programming.dev
• !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
• !historymemes@lemmy.world
• !youcantparktheremate@feddit.uk

Software

• !opensource@programming.dev
• !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
• !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
• !selfhosted@lemmy.world / !selfhosting@slrpnk.net

Politics

• !anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com / !anarchism@slrpnk.net
• !world@lemmy.world / !world@quokk.au / !globalnews@lemmy.zip

Casual

• !actual_discussion@lemmy.ca
• !asklemmy@lemmy.world
• !casualconversation@lemm.ee
• !askUSA@discuss.online
• !casualuk@feddit.uk
• !dullsters@dullsters.net

Knowledge

• !dataisbeautiful@lemmy.ml
• !documentaries@lemmy.cafe
• !math@lemmy.world
• !til@lemmy.world
• !vexillology@lemmy.world
• !wikipedia@lemmy.world

History

• !ancientcoins@lemmy.world
• !ancienthistory@slrpnk.net
• !askhistorians@lemmy.world
• !historyartifacts@lemmy.world
• !historicalpropaganda@lemmy.blahaj.zone
• !history@lemmy.world
• !historyporn@lemmy.world
• !historyruins@lemmy.world
• !historyillustrations@lemmy.world

Animals

• !superbowl@lemmy.world
• !bats@lemmy.world
• !catposting@lemmy.blahaj.zone
• !cat@lemmy.world -
• !catsstandingup@lemmy.world
• !opossums@lemmy.world
• !scrungycats@lemmy.world

Art

• !artporn@lemm.ee
• !astrophotography@lemmy.world
• !desire_paths@sh.itjust.works
• !fakehistoryporn@lemmy.world
• !imaginary@reddthat.com
• !imadethis@lemm.ee
• !inhabitedbeauty@lemmy.world
• !nocontextpics@lemmy.world
• !gameart@sopuli.xyz
• !wallpapers@lemmy.ca

Postface

That's about all there's left for you; have fun!

Finally... im done writing this...