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Open, decentralized social networking: independently operated servers that federate with each other over ActivityPub instead of pooling users into one platform. It is the one area here that is about running and publishing to a network rather than about building an application.
I operate two Fediverse servers, the Toot Works Mastodon instance and JWS Social on GoToSocial, and advocate for decentralized social media.
From the blog
Articles from JWS News and DEV that relate to the Fediverse.
Back during “funemployment“, I created JWS Social. It is a GoToSocial instance that I am hosting with K&T Host. I already have a Mastodon instance (Toot Works) that I am hosting with Masto.host but there are 83 users on there and I wanted something that was just mine…
Before Twitter collapsed, a lot of my online identity was connected to my account on the service. A lot of my content was also trapped inside of silos that were controlled by corporations. I attempted in 2018 to reduce my dependency on things like Twitter and Instagram by using…
Last year, I created my own Mastodon instance, started using Pixelfed, and even made it possible to follow this blog from the fediverse. The big benefit of this ecosystem over something like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc is that every service that is part of the fediverse can b…
From GoToSocial
Short posts about the Fediverse, matched by topic hashtags.
