⚪🔴🟤🟡🟠⚫🟢🔵🟣 This is your daily reminder that contrary to the hype and marketing hullabaloo but #Mastodon is not the #fediverse and the #federation is actually a huge tapestry thousands of servers and volunteers and dozens if not hundreds of developers and even more volunteers who have made this space what you see today.

When you accidentally or intentionally spread the misinformation you erode the very foundation of what has drawn you to this place to begin with.

You are marginalizing great projects like:Diaspora — The OG. None of this would be possible were it not for two college kids who had a dream and set up a Kickstarter to fund its development back in 2010. Over 29,000 of your fellow fediverse peers are on #Diaspora at this very moment. (10/22/2022)

Friendica — The one app that lets anyone or any organization literally create their own private #facebook on the fediverse and make it accessible and federated with the rest of the World. It also has very modest hosting requirements making it accessible to more people to host without requiring a VPS or complex server setups. About 6,700 federation citizens use #Friendica each and every day and it’s still in active development. (10/22/2022)

Hubzilla — The successor to Friendica, #Hubzilla took what was great about Friendica and made it all the better. About 2,200 of your fediverse neighbors use Hubzilla every day. (10/22/2022)

Peertube — Calling #PeerTube a “YouTube competitor” doesn’t do it justice. PeerTube is so much more than a competitor to YouTube. In a very real sense it’s a YouTube killer, if only more people knew about it and more people used it. PeerTube lets anybody stand up a service and then instantenously their published videos become accessible to the entire Federation (and vice versa). There are approximately 113,000 active PeerTube users in the federation right now. (10/22/2022)

Mastodon — #Mastodon came on the scene in 2016 and promised a more user-friendly experience. Coupled with some fortunate timing and early publicity it quickly became the darling of the fediverse. It’s certainly the software with the most amount of users. 1.28 million active users back in October, but recent events mean this number is woefully inaccurate today.

Pleroma — Less than a year after launch, disagreements with certain design decisions and direction with the Mastodon project gave birth to #Pleroma, a lightweight alternative to Mastodon that at the time ironically offered a more user-friend experience than Mastodon itself and pioneered features years ago that are just now being implemented by Mastodon and other projects. Pleroma’s bug claim to fame was that you could stand up a robust instance on a single RasperryPi with little trouble. Approximately 26,000 of your fediverse neighbors access the federation from their Pleroma accounts. (10/22/2022).

Pixelfed — #Pixelfed is the federation’s answer to Instagram. By standing up a public or private Pixelfed server you enable yourself (or the public) to post rich multimedia content (photos and videos), “stories”, and more that instantly are accessible to the rest of the federation. Over 36,000 of your fediverse peers are here right now through Pixelfed. (10/22/2022)

And there’s others!

Lemmy — #Lemmy is a federated version of Reddit (or Digg or HackerNews). It’s a federated link-aggregator. Individuals can stand up their own servers or communities of topics.

Funkwhale — #Funkwhale is a federated version of Soundcloud or Bandcamp for sharing your music library with other Funkwhale users and the Federation.

BookWyrm — #BookWyrm is a federated version of GoodReads. A federated instance by book lovers and for book lovers. 🟣🔵🟢⚫🟠🟡🟤🔴⚪