Check out fediverse.party for other tools in this space. Federateable software like Mastodon (twitter alternative), PeerTube (youtube alternative), Plemora (tu

Check out fediverse.party for other tools in this space. Federateable software like Mastodon (twitter alternative), PeerTube (youtube alternative), Plemora (tumblr alternative), Lemmy (reddit alternative), etc is software where anyone with a server can host their own "instance" of the software. A key to them is some kind of protocol that allows different instances to talk to each other If you disagree with the way Twitter is being run and you decide to run your own version of Twitter you'd have to start from scratch and be at a huge disadvantage due to the network effect. However, in the fediverse, this isn't as much of a problem since you can simply follow other instances I believe that usually "Fediverse" is reserved for software where that central protocol is ActivityPub, but there are other non-AP-based examples of federated software out there One big player in this space is FramaSoft which is a French company dedicated to "deGooglizing" the internet and creating working, mature, FLOSS, alternatives. They've increasingly supported more federated projects in the Fediverse