Community resources
Guides, tools and news from around the fediverse, picked by the FediDB team. Most are independent community projects.
Getting started
Start here if you, or someone you are helping, is new to the fediverse.
- fediverse.infofediverse.infoA friendly guide to the fediverse, with a community list of projects and answers to common questions.
- Join the Fediversejointhefediverse.netExplains what the fediverse is and how it works in plain language, with software to try for every kind of social app.
- Fedi.Tipsfedi.tipsPractical, step by step help for using Mastodon and the wider fediverse.
- Fediverse.Partyfediverse.partyA tour of the networks that make up the fediverse, with links to servers, apps and tutorials.
Find people and communities
There is no algorithm filling your feed, so these help you find who to follow and where to sign up.
Running a server
For admins and moderators keeping a community safe and healthy.
- IFTASabout.iftas.orgA nonprofit supporting volunteer moderators, with a trust and safety library and community through IFTAS Connect.
- Fediseerfediseer.comA crowdsourced chain of trust for flagging spam instances, with an API you can plug into moderation tools.
- FediForumfediforum.orgOnline unconferences where people building and running the open social web meet, teach and plan.
Building for the fediverse
Specs, proposals and the places developers talk shop.
- ActivityPubw3.org/TR/activitypubThe W3C standard most of the fediverse speaks. A new Social Web Working Group is working on its next revision.
- Fediverse Enhancement Proposalsfediverse.codeberg.page/fepCommunity proposals that extend ActivityPub and document how fediverse software interoperates.
- SocialHubsocialhub.activitypub.rocksThe main forum for ActivityPub developers, including discussion of every FEP.
- Social Web Foundationsocialwebfoundation.orgA nonprofit working on ActivityPub standards, education and policy for the open social web.
News and analysis
Keep up with what is shipping, changing and being argued about.
From the people behind FediDB
Other open projects from the team that builds FediDB.
- Pixelfedpixelfed.orgFederated photo sharing without ads or tracking.
- Loopsjoinloops.orgFederated short-form video, on the web, iOS and Android.
- WebIntentswebintents.netA universal follow button, so visitors can follow or interact with a fediverse account from their own server.
- Respectful Platformsrespectfulplatforms.orgThe Digital Charter of Rights for social platforms.
- socialweb.networksocialweb.networkAn introduction to the open social web: social without silos.