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 //See also: [[~es|El fediverso en español]]//
 The fediverse is a rather gay name for an informal collection of indie social media sites.
-The gimmick is that all sites on the fediverse can communicate with each other.  Like what if Twitter users could reply to Tumblr posts, and share posts from Instagram?  A lot of the fediverse sites are based on Twitter-like interfaces. Since most sites on the fediverse are owned by regular people, it is a neat alternative to corporate-owned social media with its own pros and cons.
+**LIKE TWITTER**: Most fedi servers are basically the same format as twitter.  You log in, you post text and images, and you talk to your friends.  That's it.  Despite its reputation, you do not need to know any tech shit or coding shit to use fedi shit.
-Here's some fediverse instances I know of, and how lenient their adult content rules on art are.
+**LIKE DISCORD:** Each server may have its own theme, depending on who owns the server.  Some servers may be huge like 10k people.  Some may be smaller, with only 10 people.  Different servers are good for different things.  You may want to hang out in different servers or leave them if you don't like the people.
-I try to choose mostly LGBTQ-friendly servers that are aware of weird art, with proactive moderation against racism, sexism, anti semitism, and other forms of bigotry.  I will attempt to note when a server is popular, but doesn't have proactive moderation.
+**THE GIMMICK:** All sites on the fediverse can communicate with each other.  Like what if Twitter users could reply to Tumblr posts, and share posts from Instagram?  Since most sites on the fediverse are owned by regular people, it is a neat alternative to corporate-owned social media with its own pros and cons.  If you don't like the rules or moderators on a fediverse site, you can //host/make your own social media with your own rules//, and block all the other sites you hate.  That's how you get Fedilore admin drama...
-===== Notes =====
-Some vocabulary:
+Here's some fediverse instances I know of, and how lenient their adult content rules on art are.
-  * **"The Fediverse"** includes //Mastodon//, the most popular software. Big instances like Mastodon.social or Mastodon.art run the Mastodon software.  Blorbo.social runs Mastodon!
-    *  There are other sites and software on "the fediverse" that use the ActivityPub protocol and thus can all load each other's posts, like (and not limited to) //Misskey// and //Pixelfed//.  So no matter if you're on Mastodon or Glup Shitto or Skunt, you can talk to people on other sites for the most part.
-    * //Threads// is semi-federated, but I think many instances block them for being Meta-controlled.
-    * //Bluesky// is not technically on "the fediverse" ActivityPub protocol.  They are on their own ATProto thing.  But there is some manually bridging/cross-posting between the fediverse and Bskyfrom user efforts.
-    * //Wordpress// and //Tumblr// keep threatening to federate, but the CEO keeps crashing out instead.
-  * **"Federation"**: Servers that are federated can load other's posts.
-  * **"Defederation"**: Servers that are defederated cannot load other's posts, and users cannot follow each other.  It's a big block button from the admin on the user's behalf.
-  * **"Limited"**: Servers that are limited by another server will only load limited content.  Example:  Blorbo only loads text from Aethy, no images or user icons.
-  * **"CW"**: stands for //Content Wrapper//, or //Content Warning//.  This wraps the post in a little box, with your own typed subject header, so that users must click "read more" to view what's inside.  CWs are commonly used for NSFW or controversial subjects - sexuality, violence, politics - but can also be used to shorten long posts, or provide a summary of the post.  Different instances will have different rules on what you should CW.
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+===== Vocab =====
+I try to choose mostly LGBTQ-friendly servers, that won't be too shocked by weird art, and have proactive moderation against racism, sexism, anti semitism, and other forms of bigotry.  I will attempt to note when a server is popular, but doesn't have proactive moderation.
+Some vocabulary:
+  * **"The Fediverse"** includes //Mastodon//, the most popular software. Big instances like Mastodon.social or Mastodon.art run the Mastodon software.  Blorbo.social runs Mastodon!
+    *  There are other sites and software on "the fediverse" that use the ActivityPub protocol and thus can all load each other's posts, like (and not limited to) //Misskey// and //Pixelfed//.  So no matter if you're on Mastodon or Glup Shitto or Skunt, you can talk to people on other sites for the most part.
+    * //Threads// is semi-federated, but I think many instances block them for being Meta-controlled.
+    * //Bluesky// is not technically on "the fediverse" ActivityPub protocol.  They are on their own ATProto thing.  But there is some manually bridging/cross-posting between the fediverse and Bskyfrom user efforts.
+    * //Wordpress// and //Tumblr// keep threatening to federate, but the CEO keeps crashing out instead.
+  * **"Federation"**: Servers that are federated can load other's posts.
+  * **"Defederation"**: Servers that are defederated cannot load other's posts, and users cannot follow each other.  It's a big block button from the admin on the user's behalf.
+  * **"Limited"**: Servers that are limited by another server will only load limited content.  Example:  Blorbo only loads text from Aethy, no images or user icons.
+  * **"CW"**: stands for //Content Wrapper//, or //Content Warning//.  This wraps the post in a little box, with your own typed subject header, so that users must click "read more" to view what's inside.  CWs are commonly used for NSFW or controversial subjects - sexuality, violence, politics - but can also be used to shorten long posts, or provide a summary of the post.  Different instances will have different rules on what you should CW.
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     * The home country of the site owner will affect the rules as well.  Some countries think squirting and fisting are too hardcore.  Some countries have very lenient rules on porn subjects but make you pixelate the subject.  There is an interesting "blocklist" in many anglophone servers against Japanese servers, because Japanese servers allow drawings of (for example) Naruto fisting Caillou.
   * I'm trying to avoid intangible/gossipy notes like "the admin says they hate Ouran High School incest shippers" in the notes, and sticking to what the viewable moderation is like.
+  * You can also host your own fediverse server for yourself and 2 friends on your own site, a lot of people choose this option if they want to be their own moderator of what they get to see.  I don't know how to do this so don't ask me how.  You can host on your own computer, or [[https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own| get a provider to do the tech work for you]].  You get to choose from all sorts of fun software, from [[https://joinmastodon.org/|vanilla Mastodon]] to [[https://gotosocial.org/|GoToSocial]] or [[https://misskey-hub.net/en/|Misskey forks]] or [[https://github.com/Taullo/Ruffy|Ruffy]]...
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