If you love books, the best part of the Fediverse is probably @bookwyrm, a GoodReads-style social reading network.

More info and sites to sign up on are at:

joinbookwyrm.com

Because it uses the same ActivityPub protocol that powers the rest of the Fediverse, you can follow BookWyrm accounts from Mastodon etc.

For example, the lead developer of BookWyrm has an account at @mouse

#Fediverse #FediTips #BookWyrm #Books #Book #Literature #Novels #Fiction #NonFiction #Reading #GoodReads #Alternatives

The best place to watch and share videos on the Fediverse is @peertube

You can find out more including places to sign up at:

joinpeertube.org

Just like the rest of the Fediverse, PeerTube uses ActivityPub protocols, so you can follow and interact with PeerTube from Mastodon etc.

For example, you could follow @craftykat or @chriswere or @mrfunkedude and interact with their videos entirely from within Mastodon.

Good instances to explore include:

tilvids.com
share.tube
greatview.video
vidcommons.org
diode.zone
tube.tchncs.de
video.blender.org
media.privacyinternational.org
conf.tube
video-cave-v2.de

You can create your own PeerTube site without tech knowledge through managed hosting services like federation.spacebear.ee and cloud68.co/instances.html

There's a dedicated free open source PeerTube app called TubeLab available through @fdroidorg@mastodon.technology and Google Play.

#PeerTube #Fediverse #FediTips

What is PeerTube? | JoinPeerTube

A free software to take back control of your videos! With more than 600,000 hosted videos, viewed more than 70 millions times and 150,000 users, PeerTube is the decentralized free software alternative to videos platforms developed by Framasoft

^JoinPeerTube

If you would like a more Facebook-style interface on the Fediverse, maybe you should try Friendica:

friendi.ca

As it uses the ActivityPub protocol, you can follow and interact with accounts on Mastodon etc from Friendica, and vice versa.

You can also follow RSS feeds as if they were Fediverse accounts, and when an RSS item is published on that feed it will appear in your timeline as if it's a Fediverse post.

You can write very long posts on Friendica, you don't have to worry about character limits.

You can use Friendica accounts through the FediLab app, available on @fdroidorg@mastodon.technology and Google Play.

You can follow the latest news about Friendica on its official blog at @news

#Friendica #Fediverse #FediTips

If you just want to post long text articles on the Fediverse, a good option is @writefreely which has an official website at:

writefreely.org

It features a minimalist interface to avoid distracting from the text itself, and is sort of like a Fediverse alternative to Medium.

Because it's part of the Fediverse, you can follow WriteFreely accounts from Mastodon etc.

You can find sites to sign up on at:

writefreely.org/instances

It works entirely through your web browser, or you can use an app from writefreely.org/apps

You can also create your own instance without technical knowledge through a managed hosting service such writefreely.host or cloud68.co/instances.html

#WriteFreely #Fediverse #FediTips #Medium #Alternatives

WriteFreely.host

Fully managed WriteFreely hosting.

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If you have a blog powered by WordPress, you can connect it to the Fediverse so that people on Mastodon etc can follow your blog, comment on posts and share them.

You will need to install a free open source plugin called ActivityPub For WordPress:

wordpress.org/plugins/activity…

Note that WordPress the platform is different from wordpress.com the hosting site. Wordpress.com does not allow installation of this kind of plugin (unless you pay an expensive fee).

But you don't need to use wordpress.com to use WordPress! Because WordPress is free open source software, much every hosting provider in the world offers a WordPress site for a few dollars a month, and this kind of indpendently hosted WordPress is what the plugin will work on.

#FediTips #Fediverse #WordPress #ActivityPub #Blog

ActivityPub

The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format.

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I just set this up, didn't work at first, but got it working after getting my host to add some whitelist rules in mod_security (incase anyone has issues). I could follow but the follow wasn't being accepted by my wp install.

My only issue now is that images don't come across, which means following from pixelfed doesn't work. Text posts fine to my mastodon profile. But no images.