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:
I'm new here (the fediverse in general), this is exactly the type of thing I want to see. Everything seems much better here, but its harder to navigate (as in to find stuff appealing to you.) I will be looking through some of this stuff.
I'm trying to set it up so that I don't create too many different accounts and stuff. Is there a good reason to go make an account on a piefed instance as well as Lemmy? Because it looks like Lemmy and Piefed instances can be federated with each other.
One really handy site that makes it much easier to find communities that interest you is lemmyverse.net, which allows you to search across every single lemmy instance, regardless of if someone on your instance has subscribed to one of those communities yet (which is how they become visible in your local instance search, as that initiates the federation).
There's also browser addons that make it easier to bring up a different instance from your home instance, like Instance Assistant.
(Ive changed mains inbetween this posts creation but I am the same author)
Piefed and lemmy instances can 100% federate with each other, no problem. If you don't mind that piefed has no apps or clients (yet) I 100% recommend it. Otherwise use Lemmy. PS, YSK that a lot of this community has moved to !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
If you would like to ask me of communities that you want to join feel free to. And welcome :)
I just checked that one out, I've been trying to limit my social media to only computers, so no apps is almost a plus, at some point I might move my main over to piefed. Mbin seems mostly confusing to me rn.