Must know/use sites for newcomers to the fediverse?

Im right now using lemmy/piefed but what other neat projects should i look into as a newcomer to this world?

Im not looking for anything in particular, i just want to expand what i use and see more projects.

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squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi · 17 pts · 185d (7 replies)

FediDB lists 67 software projects in the Fediverse. Just scroll through it and try whatever suits you.

My personal favorites:

  • PieFed (Threadiverse)
  • PeerTube (Videos)
  • Mastodon (Microblogging)
  • Bookwyrm (Books)

And lately I scrolled a bit through Wafrn, it's a whole different vibe over there. I don't understand much, but that's what I love about it.

red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 185d (6 replies)

Can you explain PeerTube? From what I gather, people set up their own instances for their stuff and no instance allows sign ups. So I need to create my own instance in order to even get a feed and notified of new posts?

Bookwyrm is nice, but it only knows about 20% of my Goodreads book shelf.

rimu@piefed.social · 14 pts · 185d

PieFed can subscribe to peertube channels as if they were communities. https://piefed.social/f/peertube shows some of them.

squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi · 6 pts · 185d

There are a lot of instances that allow signups. Go to fediverse observer, filter by registration and country, order by active users and you'll get a decent list.

Or check one of these instances and request an account, just to name a few.

meldrik@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 185d

Check out the pinned posts at !peertube@lemmy.wtf for an instance to register on and channels to follow.

klangcola@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 185d

You can subscribe to a peertube channel with a Mastodon account if you want

SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 1 pts · 184d

I don't know if it's wrong and how much, but I've seen it likened to Imgur more than YouTube: a place from which you link your videos in other parts of the recovered, rather than a platform to browse videos fed by the algorithm. Sorry if I'm mistaken.

straddle@fedinsfw.app · 1 pts · 185d

And Lemmy has about 1% of Reddits users but here we are.

mrmaplebar@fedia.io · 15 pts · 185d (4 replies)

So far, I've tried and enjoyed:

  • Mastodon, a twitter-like microblogging platform
  • Peertube, a peer-to-peer youtube-like video posting and streaming platform
  • Pixelfed, an instagram-like image sharing platform
  • Matrix, a federated IRC-style chatroom protocol (not really fediverse/activitypub, but still interesting)
  • Wafrn, a tumblr-like with support for Bluesky's AT protocol too!
  • Misskey, a unqiue social platform with lots of features, very popular with the Japanese art crowd
  • Mbin, another reddit-like with lots of interesting features and a nice interface.

And there are still plenty more that I haven't really tried yet! The fediverse is pretty huge!

As for recommending specific sites, that's a bit harder since it's healthy that not everybody is on the same server. So I would just recommend picking a reasonably popular server with open registration.

meldrik@lemmy.wtf · 4 pts · 185d (1 reply)

A small correction about PeerTube. It is not “torrent-based”.

mrmaplebar@fedia.io · 2 pts · 185d

Alright, I've changed my description to "peer-to-peer".

Infrapink@thebrainbin.org · 3 pts · 184d (1 reply)

mbin mentioned!

Also there's Sharkey, which is basically Misskey but in English.

Akkoma is like independent Misskey or something.

WriteFreely is a blogging platform.

pseudo@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 184d

BookWyrm, reading tracker and review sharing

isidro_carle@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 185d
discoplasm@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 185d (1 reply)

i like NeoDB, it's handy for me to log movies/books/shows/music in one place

Hiplobbe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 185d

Cool, I didn't know about this. Thank you! :D

ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 185d

Lemmyverse.net is a very useful site to find communities that may not have federated to your instance yet (at least 1 user on your instance must be subscribed to it for it to begin federating). Especially useful for smaller instances.

birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 185d

You mean other federated sites? Mastodon, Friendica, PeerTube, to name a few.