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AltStore PAL

The world’s first federated app store

Discover New Apps

AltStore is an app store designed for sideloading. Every app in AltStore gets a beautifully generated store page with detailed information to make sideloading fun and easy. Browse apps from trusted developers, or add additional “sources” to further increase your options.

Self-Published Apps

Anyone can distribute their apps with AltStore. All you need is to make a “source”, which you can do by hosting a text file with basic information about your apps. Users can then enter your source URL in AltStore and your apps will automatically appear.

Follow the complete AltStore guide to create your own source and start distributing your apps in minutes.

Federated Apps

Developers can automatically federate their apps, app updates, and news alerts to the AltStore ActivityPub server explore.alt.store for better discoverability, which are then bridged to the ATmosphere via Bridgy Fed.

Users can view all likes on these from across the social web directly in AltStore, and connect their Mastodon or Bluesky accounts to like them in-app.

Demo

October 2025

Bluesky

Bluesky is social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

Social media is too important to be controlled by a few corporations. We’re building an open foundation for the social internet so that we can all shape its future.

Your timeline, your choice

Stay focused on your friend group, keep up-to-date on the latest news, or explore with an algorithm that learns what you like. On Bluesky, there’s a feed for that.

Control your scroll

Use powerful moderation lists, content filters, and more to control what ends up in your timeline. In the future, people and organizations will be able to use open tools to contribute even more directly to moderation.

Some of the old, all of the new

Social media used to be fun. Be your unique self and create with your friends, all while keeping tabs on what’s happening at a global scale.

What’s next is being built today

We’re building a foundation for connection that gives users a choice in their experience, creators independence from platforms, and developers the freedom to build. The future is bright.

The public deserves a thriving online commons. We’re committed to building this space and ensuring that your social network can never be bought by a single individual or organization. L Bluesky is an open network. With one account, you can access both an easy-to-use social network and a shared identity across the entire social internet.

Bluesky Social

Bluesky is the social app built for better conversations. Find your people, follow what you care about, and have fun online again — without ads or engagement traps.

Join the moment

See what people are talking about right now. From breaking news to big cultural moments, jump into conversations as they unfold and be part of what’s happening.

Explore feeds

Choose from thousands of community-built feeds covering news, art, pets, science, fandom, investing, culture, and everything in between. Stay updated with people you care about in your Following feed, or dive into new perspectives and trends in Discover.

Control your scroll

Use powerful moderation tools and content filters to shape exactly what you see. Hide what you don’t want, follow what you do, and decide who can interact with you.

Jump right in

Starter Packs help you get going fast. Follow curated lists of interesting people with one tap and start building your community instantly.

Avoid the billionaires

The internet is too important to be controlled by a handful of powerful people. Bluesky is building an open, community-driven foundation for the social internet. With one account, you can use the Bluesky app and take your identity anywhere on the growing ecosystem of apps built on the same protocol.

Bonfire

Bonfire is a federated, open-source social platform designed to give communities real autonomy and participatory governance over their digital spaces. Bonfire Social 1.0 was released at the end of 2025.

Bonfire isn’t just another federated social app, it’s a modular framework for building digital spaces governed by communities. Bonfire Social is the first “flavour” to reach 1.0, and is a starting point for communities who want a space of their own, that’s locally governed and fully customisable, yet connected to the wider fediverse.

A flavour is a pre-configured bundle of extensions that defines which features are included, how they behave, and what defaults are in place. Besides Bonfire Social, other flavours like Open Science Network and Bonfire Community are already in development, and people can also create their own extensions and flavours.

From day one, Bonfire has been designed to go beyond microblogging. We see social networking as social infrastructure rather than just social media, and have experimented with extensions for coordinating tasks, exchanging resources, and more.

Features

Many features in Bonfire will feel familiar: feeds, profiles, following users, sharing posts, flagging or blocking content. Others might be new, like rich-text posts, fine-grained access control, and more:

Content, Feeds & Discussions

Custom feeds: Users can create their own custom feeds using a simple interface. No coding required. Filter and sort content by type, circle, date, engagement level, source instance, and more. Save presets and choose which ones appear in your sidebar and in what order.
Long-form publishing: Read and write in-depth articles directly in Bonfire, with a rich text editor, title, and cover image support. Articles from federated blogging platforms appear seamlessly in your feed.
Feed presets for different content types: Dedicated feed presets for articles, events, and books, with sorting options like most liked or most replied.
Follow hashtags: Discover and join conversations by following hashtags, bringing relevant posts into your feed without needing to follow specific people.
Replies in feeds: Choose how replies display in your feed: show the parent post, the original thread starter, or just a label.
Nested discussions: Threaded conversations where replies can branch into focused sub-threads without losing context. Ideal for deep discussions, collaborative work, or following a conversation’s collective train of thought.
Scheduled posts: Plan ahead and publish posts at a set time.
Configurable dashboard widgets: Set up your homepage with widgets like trending links, recent articles, and suggested profiles, arranged by drag and drop.
RSS/Atom feeds: Subscribe to Bonfire feeds via any RSS reader.
Full-text search across posts, discussions, and profiles (users can opt out of indexing).
Translation: Works in Chrome browser via local engine; with LibreTranslate and DeepL API integration available as well.

People & Privacy

Circles: A circle is simply a list of people. Bonfire includes default circles like “local users” or “people I follow,” and you can define your own. Circles are private by default but can be shared.
Boundaries: Control who can see and interact with your content. For example, share a post with several circles but only allow replies from a specific one, or make a post public but invisible to specific people. Boundaries also interoperate with GoToSocial’s interaction controls and Mastodon’s quote authorisations.
Consent-based quoting: Use boundaries to define who can quote your post, who must request first, or who cannot request at all. Give or withdraw consent at any time.
Multiple profiles: One account can create multiple independent profiles, each with its own followers, content, and settings. Shared profiles can also be managed by multiple accounts, ideal for collectives or project teams.
Direct messages & private group discussions: With the same nested thread features as regular posts.
Custom roles and permissions: Distribute admin powers across community members.
Single sign-on: Bonfire supports OpenID Connect and OAuth2 authentication, with tested integrations for ORCID, Zenodo, and more. Bonfire can also act as an SSO provider itself.

Customisation

Themes: Ships with 16 colourful themes, but you can go further: design your own colours, fonts, and layout styles.
Extension management: Extensions can be enabled or disabled by admins and by users. For example, you can disable likes or boosts if they don’t suit your needs.
Private by default: New instances start as invite-only, giving admins control over membership from day one.

Federation, Interoperability & Data Portability

ActivityPub federation: Bonfire federates with Mastodon, PeerTube, Mobilizon, and many more. Protocol bridges also connect to Bluesky.
Federation status dashboard: Track outgoing and incoming federated activities, making it simpler to monitor federation health and troubleshoot issues.
Comprehensive migration: Export and import follows, blocks, circles/lists, bookmarks, likes, and boosts. A dedicated dashboard helps you follow the progress of data imports and migrations.
Post import: Bring your posts (and optionally their replies) with you when moving to Bonfire. Imported posts keep their original dates and links and are added to your timeline in the right order.
Community-curated blocklists: Import blocklists to ease moderation.

Work in progress / up next

These are either partially shipped, are in active development, or are our immediate next priorities with existing collaborations and prototyping:

Federated Groups: Groups are being co-designed with Princeton HCI, Knowledge Commons, Jacobin, and other pilot communities. Groups will have their own rules, roles, and shared moderation, and federate across Bonfire instances and other platforms.

End-to-End Encryption: Standards-based MLS encryption for DMs and group chats, developed with the Social Web Foundation and another ActivityPub platform to ensure interoperability.

Events & Calendars: Being co-created with LAUTI, designed to interoperate with Mobilizon, Gancio, and others. Supports recurring/nested events, multi-language content, and linking events to groups and places.

Geosocial Extension: Location-based activities (like events), with map views and location-based feeds.

Polls: Viewing and voting on remote polls works now; creating them locally is coming soon.

Mastodon-compatible API: Will allow interaction with Bonfire through dozens of existing fediverse clients on mobile and desktop.

ActivityPub client-to-server (C2S) API: Opening new possibilities for third-party app interaction.

Custom emoji support.

Future goals

These are longer-horizon items from our crowdfunding stretch goals, planned and with partners on board, but dependent on funding and further co-design:

Governance tools: Consent-based proposals, discussion, and decision-making tools, from quick polls to deep deliberation. Designed with Princeton HCI and UXDI, informed by sociocracy and tools like Ukuvota and Loomio. Adaptable methods rather than one-size-fits-all voting, with transparent records and federation support.

Shared moderation infrastructure: Cross-instance, cross-platform safety tooling co-designed with IFTAS, the ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce, FediMod FIRES, Newsmast, and the Trust & Safety Foundation. The goal is coordinated triage and response without losing local autonomy.

Mutual aid networks: BuyNothing-style gifting with location-based offers/requests, resource matching, and interoperable accounting via ValueFlows. Co-designed with Mutual Aid Networks and Gifting with Integrity communities, with potential bridges to existing networks like TrashNothing.

Bluesky/ATproto interop & migration: Deep interoperability between Bonfire and ATproto. Built with A New Social (BridgyFed/Bounce).

Living memory (community archives): Federated community archives linking stories, places, events, and media. Initiated by “O alta poveste,” building on their years of R&D to bring participatory grassroots history to the federated web, with privacy and consent controls for contributors.

Gaia: Environmental sensor data, citizen science, and open datasets appearing in feeds as stories, visuals, and alerts. To be co-created with ecologists, artists, and sensor networks to turn environmental data into community dialogue and stewardship.

Collaboration infrastructure: Building upon the ValueFlows vocabulary to bring peer-to-peer coordination tools into Bonfire. We’d like to use Bonfire to coordinate development, track work, resources, and shared inventories through federated task lists and Kanban boards.

Tech stack

Built in Elixir on Erlang/OTP, Bonfire federates via ActivityPub and is licensed under the AGPL-3.0.

Backend language: Bonfire is written in Elixir, running on Erlang/OTP, a functional programming language designed for building reliable systems. The entire stack (including the web frontend) is built with Elixir.

Web framework & frontend: We use the Phoenix web framework with LiveView and Surface for UI components and views.

Database: Bonfire uses PostgreSQL for most data storage. We have a notable approach to primary keys: all Bonfire objects use a ULID as their primary key, and we use the Needle library to reference any object by its primary key without knowing what type it is beforehand. This allows things like following or liking many different types of objects (not just users or posts).

APIs: Some extensions use the Absinthe GraphQL library to expose an API. Bonfire leverages GraphQL for economic activities in particular (ValueFlows). We’re also building a Mastodon-compatible REST API and an ActivityPub client-to-server (C2S) API.

Federation: We maintain a standalone ActivityPub library for Elixir, which other projects can use to implement federation. It’s a modular implementation with a layered architecture and adapter pattern, so it can be integrated into various Elixir applications while handling the complexities of federation.

License: GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL-3.0).

Extension architecture

The extension system is central to how Bonfire works. The code is broadly composed of namespaces, many of which are packaged as “extensions” living in separate git repositories and included in the app as dependencies. Each extension typically contains:

Data schemas and migrations
Context modules: Core logic, often organised around an object type
UI components and/or views
LiveHandlers: For handling frontend events in the backend
Config templates: Copied into an app flavour’s config

Extensions can be enabled or disabled both by instance admins and by individual users. A “flavour” is essentially a curated bundle of extensions with specific defaults and config, so creating a new flavour means choosing which extensions to include and how they’re configured.

Beyond extensions, we also build lower-level libraries extracted for general use outside Bonfire, like the ActivityPub library, the Needle/Pointers library for universal foreign keys, and various Elixir utilities.

Relevant links

Bounce

Bounce is an open social web migration tool. It lets you migrate your account from one decentralized social network to another, and still keep all of your followers, along with some of the people you follow.

Which networks are supported?

Bounce currently supports migrating from Bluesky to Mastodon or Pixelfed, and from Mastodon to Bluesky. We hope to add support for Threads, micro.blog, and more in the future.

What gets migrated, exactly?

Right now, only your profile, followers, and some follows. The existing posts on the accounts you migrate from and to will stay the same; only new posts going forward will get bridged back to the old account.

We hope to add support for migrating posts, likes, blocks, and other data eventually!

How does it work?

When Bounce migrates you, it uses Bridgy Fed to bridge your new account back to your old network so that your followers there can still see you and your posts.

For your follows, ie the people you follow, Bounce uses Bridgy Fed to detect which of them are already in your new network and following you over the bridge, and which are in your old network but are themselves bridged into the new one. It then reconnects all of those follows so that you still see and follow them after you migrate.

Under the covers, Bounce uses each network’s built in support for account migration, eg ActivityPub’s Move activity for the fediverse, and AT Protocol’s account migration for Bluesky. Bounce migrates your old account into Bridgy Fed, so that it becomes a bridged version of your new account that’s fully owned and managed by Bridgy Fed.

Bridgy Fed

Bridgy Fed is a decentralized social network bridge. It connects the fediverse, the web, and Bluesky. If you’re on one of these networks, you can use Bridgy Fed to follow people on other networks, see their posts, and reply and like and repost them. Likewise, they’ll be able to see you and your posts too. All interactions work both directions.

Emissary

Emissary is a programmable Fediverse server that can be customized to fit many different needs. The server itself provides many low-level features such as ActivityPub connectivity, online sales and subscriptions, media management, geolocation services, access controls, and more.

Additional applications can be installed on Emissary from a variety of sources. These lightweight packages are built with only HTML + JSON, and simply configure the various capabilities of the compiled Emissary server that runs them.

Emissary was first introduced by Ben Pate at FediForum in March 2024. There are currently several Emissary apps available, with more in the works:

The Emissary default app is a microblog, newsreader, and website builder
Bandwagon which serves indie musicians and bands
Atlas Maps, a social mapping server for local community reporting
Qwertylicious, subscription-based platform for long-form articles

The Bandwagon platform for musicians and bands is built on Emissary.

Eurosky

Eurosky is your European home on the Atmosphere, a new world of social apps and services that all work together. It’s the future of the web.

How it works

Create your account

Pick your apps

Your account works across dozens of apps on the Atmosphere — Bluesky, Flashes, Tangled, and more. One login, everywhere.

Own your data

Your content lives on your own Personal Data Server. Switch apps anytime, take your followers with you, and stay in control.

We build shared digital infrastructure for a new generation of social apps — open, competitive, and built on European values. We’re here for the people who use these apps, and the builders who make them.

Fedica

Unparalleled publishing

Schedule, and automate with unique capabilities across 13 platforms:

Advanced scheduling capabilities: schedule X threads, polls, tagged media & more
Multi-platform automation: Post to multiple platforms simultaneously with platform-specific customization
Target different personas: Optimize by the best time for different geographies
Organized content calendar: Save time with an organized content calendar and get inspired with live trending topics
AI-powered messaging: Optimize your messaging with AI for better engagement, clarity, tone, and grammar

Demo

September 2024

Customer quotes

I’ve been really impressed with how responsive the team is and how easy Fedica makes managing all of the social media when our resources are already stretched thin. The platform just works – saves me a lot of time and hassle.

Starr Brown, OWASP

Platform-Specific Services

Mastodon Services

Publishing:

Schedule Mastodon posts, threads, polls, and media with content warning labels
Crosspost to Bluesky, Pixelfed, Threads, and LinkedIn simultaneously
Content calendar and queues for organizing multi-platform strategy
RSS integration to automatically share blog content

Analytics:

Engagement dashboard with filterable analytics by topics and metrics
Compare analytics with other platforms like Threads, Pixelfed, and Bluesky
Track reposts, likes, and replies to see what’s working

Community Management:

Track who followed and unfollowed you with email briefs
Follower analysis with demographics, quality auditing, and engagement tracking
Followers map for global insights into your impact
Account search and sorting with advanced filtering options
Mastodon Sync: Integrate Mastodon with your Twitter followers and build a unified community across the fediverse

Pixelfed Services

Publishing:

Schedule posts, images, and videos
Cross-platform publishing to Pixelfed alongside Threads, Mastodon, Bluesky, X, LinkedIn, Instagram, and more
Content pipelines to organize and automate content workflows
RSS integration for automatic blog content sharing

Analytics:

Post performance analytics tracking reposts, likes, replies, mentions, and profile clicks
Follower analytics monitoring growth, unfollowers, and engagement trends
Content filtering by keywords, campaigns, topics, and hashtags
Compare analytics with other platforms

Community Analysis:

Compare follower overlap tool
Filter & sort followers with comprehensive criteria
Account post timeline analysis and follower list analysis
Audience demographics breakdown by age, gender, and occupation

Bluesky Services

Publishing:

Schedule posts, threads, and videos
Cross-platform publishing to Bluesky alongside Mastodon, Pixelfed, Threads, X, LinkedIn, Instagram, and more
Spread thread scheduling to publish over time rather than all at once
Content labels support for NSFW warning labels (adult content, graphic media, etc.)
Alt text management for accessibility
Auto link cards for website links

Analytics:

Post performance analytics tracking reposts, likes, replies, mentions, and profile clicks
Follower analytics monitoring growth, unfollowers, and engagement trends
Content filtering by keywords, campaigns, topics, and hashtags
Most engaged user list with gender, reach, engager post amount, and engager activity data

Community Tools:

Compare follower overlap tool
Filter & sort followers with comprehensive criteria
Account post timeline analysis and follower list analysis
Audience demographics breakdown by age, gender, and occupation

Crossposting & Multi-Platform Publishing:

Post to multiple platforms simultaneously from one calendar (Mastodon, Pixelfed, Bluesky, Threads, LinkedIn, Instagram, X, and more)
Platform-specific customization: tag people and customize your message per platform—each post is native on each network, not reposts
Unified content calendar and advanced scheduling: threads, polls, tagged media; target different personas and optimize by best time for different geographies

Peertube

Publishing:

Schedule videos
Cross-platform publishing to Peertube alongside Youtube, Tiktok and more

FediHost

FediHost makes it quick, easy, and affordable to get on the Fediverse with no technical knowledge required. Get started for just $4/month with a 7-day risk-free trial.

Tutorials & Blog

Extensive documentation and guides are available to help you understand and navigate the Fediverse. Check out the FediHost Blog and video tutorials to get started.

Manage Multiple Services

FediHost provides one interface to manage all your Fediverse instances letting you share resources across instances so you save as you grow.

Features

Pooled Storage: Storage is shared in a pool between your services. Storage can be added as needed so you only pay for what you use.
Dedicated PeerTube Encoders: Video encoding is handled by dedicated servers so even small instances can handle big encoding jobs.
Backups & Recovery: Daily backups and disaster recovery support.
Portable & Open: Export a complete copy of your instance from your dashboard. FediHost also assists with migrations from other hosting providers.
Self-Managed Environment Variables: Manage multiple variables yourself directly from your dashboard.
Refer & Save: Get credits for both you and your friends while helping to grow the Fediverse.
Custom Domains: Bring your own domain name for your instances.
Bilingual Support: Support and service in both English and French.

Custom Hosting

FediHost also hosts large custom instances for organizations, government, corporate, and non-profit clients.

Features and Benefits

Dedicated Server: FediHost offers managed instances on dedicated servers for organizations that require infrastructure to be isolated and secured.
Custom Code: Support for custom code, forks and configurations.
Bring Your Own S3: Support for clients who bring their own S3 buckets with direct storage and backups.
Additional Services: We partner with people to bring new managed hosting offerings to market. Currently we have tested and have the ability to host Pixelfed, PieFed, and BookWyrm.

Fully-managed Mastodon service

All-in-One Managed Service

Tailored for large organisations

We handle everything - from infrastructure, security, backups, updates, moderation, legal takedowns.

Perfect for organisations that want fast access to their own Mastodon server with guaranteed compliance and low resource investment.

Including Hosting, Moderation and Support

Single Service

Designed for organisations that want to stay in control

You stay in control. You can decide which services you want to run yourself, and where to get support from Mastodon.

Ideal for organisations that already have internal resources or want to build internal capabilities.

Choose one or multiple services from Hosting, Moderation or Support.

Manyfold

Manyfold offers an independent, decentralised, non-corporate, system for 3d print enthusiasts to manage their private model collections, and for creators to publish their work to others.

The system can be self-hosted, but a public flagship instance is also available at https://3dprint.social, where anyone can sign up for an account to publish their work.

Browse

View and enjoy your collection, and easily find the models you need; all in full interactive 3D.

Categorise

Sort your models and files by tag, creator, collection, and add metadata like original source, notes, supported/unsupported, and more.

Share content publicly or privately, follow content on other instances, or anywhere on the Fediverse.

Tidy

Automatically reorganise files on disk based on your tags or other metadata, with fully customisable renaming options.

Troubleshoot

Easily spot duplicate files, nested models, inefficient formats, and more to come.

Masto.host

Masto.host is a fully managed Mastodon hosting service. It handles installation, security updates, and upgrades, allowing customers to run their own Mastodon server without managing the technical infrastructure.

Customers can use their own domain or a free Masto.host subdomain.

Mastodon

Mastodon is the most widely used microblogging platform that supports ActivityPub.

Mastodon mobile app

Mastodon develops and maintains applications for iOS and Android devices. Mastodon’s mobile clients deliver the same open, algorithm-free experience that defines the platform, letting you control exactly what you see and who you interact with. The apps are lightweight, respectful of your privacy, and designed to work smoothly across different device sizes, making decentralized social networking accessible to everyone, anywhere.

Mastodon provides an open API in order to sustain a vibrant ecosystem of third-party applications tailored to different use cases or experiences. Explore the full library of third-party Mastodon applications on our website.

mastodon.social

Mastodon.social is the original server instance of the Mastodon open source software (OSS), created and maintained by Mastodon GmbH. The team runs this server to provide a safe landing place for anyone, especially for newcomers to the social web, and as a reference implementation of the Mastodon software. Mastodon.social takes a strong stance against content and speech that does harm.

Mastodon.social is the largest Mastodon server, and the largest ActivityPub server as well.

micro.blog

Easy blogging at your own domain name for short posts, full essays, photo blogs, and email newsletters, with a great community, cross-posting to other networks, and more.

What is Micro.blog?

Micro.blog is a unique platform that combines blog hosting with a social media-style timeline and community.

It’s a paid hosting service for personal blogs that makes it easy to publish short or long posts. Use it for short thoughts, longer essays, photos, podcasts, what books you’re reading, links to news articles, and more.

It’s a community whose members share posts via a timeline that is a safe space for conversations, free from advertising, trolling, and abuse, with community guidelines that are enforced.

Micro.blog launched in 2017 with a Kickstarter campaign supported by 3000 backers.

Micro.blog’s timeline shows posts from people you’re following. It’s always chronological. There are no trends, no ads, no boosts, and no extra clutter.

Micro.blog doesn’t have like counts or follower counts. It’s not a popularity contest. Private bookmarks instead of public likes let you reference a post or blog about it later. This focus on posts also simplifies the timeline and encourages quick replies when you want to acknowledge someone’s post. Cross-posting to Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, and more

Micro.blog can automatically copy your blog posts to many popular services. Post to your blog first, where you have more control over your content, then let Micro.blog send a copy everywhere. Start small, scale to anything

Micro.blog has so many features, you can start small with short blog posts and then grow your web site with photos, podcasts, email newsletters, and custom pages. But don’t be overwhelmed! The features you don’t need won’t get in your way.

Demo

November 2023

Read the book!

Manton Reece, the founder of micro.blog, has written a book called Indie Microblogging.

NodeBB

NodeBB is next generation community forum software. It’s powerful, mobile-ready and easy to use.

Looking for a way to engage your followers, away from the noise and chaos of today’s “social” sites?

NodeBB takes the spirit and energy of the great online forum communities of old, and empowers it with powerful, mobile-ready and easy to use software.

Establish your own platform for real conversations. Start today!

NodeBB

NodeBB is next generation community forum software. It’s powerful, mobile-ready and easy to use.

Looking for a way to engage your followers, away from the noise and chaos of today’s “social” sites?

NodeBB takes the spirit and energy of the great online forum communities of old, and empowers it with powerful, mobile-ready and easy to use software.

Establish your own platform for real conversations. Start today!

Surf

Surf, a browser for the open social web, gives people, publishers and creators a simple way to search for the conversations they care about or create feeds to build community around anything—from events to podcasts. Use Surf to see what people are saying on issues of the day, trends or topics you care about.

Create Surf Feeds for Your Community

People, publishers, organizations and communities can design a custom feed for themselves or others that share an interest. It takes just a few steps: Select +Create a Feed in the Surf Sidebar, name your feed, add a community hashtag and add sources like social profiles from Bluesky, Threads and Mastodon, YouTube channels, podcasts and RSS feeds. Your Surf feed can be shared on the web, serving as a resource for others or a dedicated space for conversations around any topic. Get started at https://surf.social.

Unite Community Conversations

Bring together the conversations happening across Bluesky, Mastodon, and federated Threads platforms by assigning a Community Hashtag to a Surf feed and posts from any of those networks, that use the hashtag, will show up in your feed. Now it doesn’t matter what platform your friends or fans like to use, you can see the whole community in one place.

Here’s a great one: https://allnet.surf.social/

WordPress ActivityPub plugin

The ActivityPub plugin adds ActivityPub support to WordPress, the open source publishing platform that powers over 43% of websites. Once installed, any WordPress site can join the Fediverse directly from its own domain.

With the plugin enabled, each site gets a site-wide federated profile and each author gets an individual federated profile. This lets people follow either a publication or a specific author from ActivityPub-compatible platforms.

The plugin also includes dedicated blocks for showing Fediverse followers, reactions, and follow buttons in your site layout. Site owners can keep using familiar WordPress workflows, themes, and plugins while participating in open social networking.

Demo

WordPress IndieWeb plugins

A collection of WordPress plugins that connect your site to the IndieWeb, enabling cross-site conversations, authentication, publishing, and real-time notifications using open web standards.

IndieWeb Plugin

The IndieWeb plugin helps site owners establish their IndieWeb identity by extending user profiles with rel-me and h-card fields. It also serves as an installer for the other IndieWeb plugins listed below.

Install from WordPress.org
Available since 2014

Webmention Plugin

The Webmention plugin adds Webmention support to WordPress. Incoming webmentions are automatically added as comments to the original post, and outgoing webmentions are sent when a post is published or updated. It can be paired with the Semantic Linkbacks plugin for enhanced presentation of received webmentions.

Install from WordPress.org
Available since 2013

Micropub Plugin

The Micropub plugin adds a Micropub server endpoint to WordPress, allowing users to create, update, and delete posts using any Micropub client. It supports various post types including likes, replies, bookmarks, events, and RSVPs, as well as media uploads and syndication targets.

Install from WordPress.org
Available since 2016

IndieAuth Plugin

The IndieAuth plugin adds IndieAuth support to WordPress, enabling web sign-in and authorization for third-party apps like Micropub clients. It includes a built-in IndieAuth endpoint, token management UI, PKCE support, and client discovery.

Install from WordPress.org
Available since 2013

WebSub Plugin

The WebSub/PubSubHubbub plugin enables real-time notifications for WordPress sites. When content is published or updated, subscribers are instantly notified via the WebSub protocol (formerly PubSubHubbub). The plugin supports the PubSubHubbub v0.4 specification.

Install from WordPress.org
Available since 2011

WordPress.com

WordPress.com is a managed WordPress hosting platform operated by Automattic. It includes built-in ActivityPub support, so any WordPress.com site can join the Fediverse without extra setup or plugin management.

When ActivityPub is enabled, your site becomes a followable profile on the social web. People can follow your posts from ActivityPub-compatible platforms, while follower relationships remain tied to your domain.

Built-in moderation tools integrate with the existing WordPress comment system, making it easier to manage web and federated conversations in one familiar workflow.

WordPress.com handles hosting, security updates, and platform infrastructure so site owners can focus on publishing. Plans range from free to enterprise-level, with ActivityPub available on all plans.

write.as

About

Write.as is the easiest way to share your writing on the web.

Create a journal, newsletter, space for your thoughts. Reach people with your ideas, and form new connections. Keep loved ones in the loop, free from social media. Write.as is a simple, modern, and ad-free web publishing platform.

No distractions

The editor only gives you what you need to write, and automatically saves while you type.

Start a minimal blog

No comments, spam, likes, or distractions — just your words in your own digital space.

Privacy by default

We don’t collect your personal data, so you can write freely. Publish anonymously or under any name you choose.

Open distribution

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