ActivityPub on FediForum Connect

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

Bandwagon

Bandwagon is a Fediverse server for musicians and bands, where you can sell your music directly to fans, or stream it for free. You can also post events, such as tour dates, along with general news updates for your followers.

It is built on Emissary.

bandwagon.fm

Bandwagon.fm is a Fediverse server for musicians and bands, where you can sell your music directly to fans, or stream it for free. You can also post events, such as tour dates, along with general news updates for your followers.

Bandwagon.fm runs the self-hostable Bandwagon platform.

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.

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
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.

Ghost

Fiercely independent, professional publishing

Ghost is the most popular open source, headless Node.js CMS which already works with all the tools you know and love.

ghost.org

Turn your audience into a business

Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.

Complete control over your website and branding

Launch a custom website and tweak the design settings to perfectly match your brand and style.

Go even further with hundreds of custom themes in our marketplace, or build your own completely custom design from scratch.

Your unique brand sits front and center, while Ghost runs things in the background.

An editor built from the ground-up for professionals. Calm by design, with advanced workflows by default. No more suffering through clumsy toolbars or drag & oops. Immerse yourself in the story with an interface that’s invisible until you need it, and powerful when you do.

Rich media & dynamic cards

Modern publishing requires more than just words. Expand your story with image galleries, gifs, video, audio, products, info boxes, accordion toggles, downloadable files, bookmarks, and so much more.

Newsletters built-in

Deliver posts by email newsletter to your audience, so they’ll be in the loop whenever something new goes live. Segment your audience and send multiple different newsletters based on preference.

Transform those clicks into contacts

Until now, building an indie publication with memberships and subscriptions has been difficult and complicated.

Ghost makes it easy, with native signup forms that turn anonymous views into logged-in members.

Allow people to sign up for free, or purchase a paid subscription to support your work across monthly and yearly premium tiers.

Hello, new friends

Manage your memberships.

See who’s signing up, who’s paying, and what they’re reading, so you can get a better understanding of your core audience.

Native analytics

Understand what’s working. Detailed engagement analytics for your audience so you can understand what content is getting the most attention, and who your biggest fans are.

Offers & promotions

Entice new subscribers with offers and promotions to grow your business. Run a 30% discount for your first 100 subscribers, an 80%-off Black Friday sale, or a special promotion for a live event.

Works with everything

Social, referral programs, push notifications, social sharing, payment gateways, A/B testing, desktop editors, mobile apps, comments, recommendations. Yes.

Explore the integrations library

Loops

All the fun of short-form video, none of the corporate control.

Loops is federated, open-source, and designed to give power back to creators and communities across the social web. Build your community on a platform that can’t lock you in.

loops.video is the flagship instance of Loops.

Loops mobile app

Create and discover short videos in a federated network that puts you in control. No ads, no tracking, no manipulative algorithms – just authentic content from real people.

loops.video

Loops was built on a simple but radical idea: short-form video should serve people, not exploit them.

Loops.video is the flagship instance of Loops — an open-source, federated alternative to commercial short-video platforms, created by the team behind Pixelfed".

We built Loops because we believe the era of handing your creativity over to algorithms designed to extract attention and sell ads should be over. Your videos, your audience, your community — none of that should belong to a corporation.

Loops runs on ActivityPub, the same open protocol that powers Mastodon, Pixelfed, and the wider fediverse. That means your content can reach people across the social web, and you’re never locked in. If you ever want to move to another Loops instance — or leave entirely — you can, and we’ll help you do it.

We’re not backed by venture capital. We’re not chasing growth metrics or building toward an exit. Loops is funded by the community, built in the open, and governed by people who actually use it.

Every feature we ship is guided by one question: is this good for creators and their communities?

If the answer is no, we don’t ship it.

Our Mission

We’re reclaiming short-video sharing for humanity.

Social media should serve people, not exploit them. Loops is an ethical alternative to commercial short-video platforms — a space where creators, people, and visual artists can share their work without invasive tracking, data mining, or dark-pattern design.

As an open-source project, we believe in radical transparency and true community governance. Every feature we build is designed with user privacy and experience in mind — not advertising revenue or engagement metrics.

Our values, in plain language:

**Privacy as a fundamental right. Your content is yours. Period.
**Ethical design. No dark patterns or manipulative interfaces.
**Global accessibility. Available to anyone with internet access.
**Community ownership. Users have a voice in platform decisions.
**Sustainable growth. Building for long-term impact, not quick profit.

Why Loops Matters

The major short-video platforms have the same business model: harvest your attention, sell it to advertisers, and keep you scrolling at any cost. Creators are at the mercy of opaque algorithms, arbitrary moderation, and the constant threat of being deplatformed overnight.

Loops is different by design. Because it’s built on ActivityPub, no single company can own the network. Because it’s open-source, anyone can inspect, fork, or self-host it. And because it’s community-funded, we answer to users — not shareholders.

The fediverse already proved this model works for text and photos. Loops is here to do the same for video.

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.

Newsmast Foundation Ltd

YOUR COMMUNITY. YOUR PLATFORM.

Bring your people and content together in a safer, calmer, independent space supported by an education charity.

APPS FOR CHANGE

We help mission-driven organisations move their communities to a custom platform owned and run by you. Bringing people together in safe, healthy, independent spaces with our flexible, user-friendly apps.

About Newsmast

Rebuilding digital spaces

The Newsmast Foundation helps mission-driven organisations create independent, ethical digital spaces through simple, affordable community apps. We believe communities deserve online spaces without ads, algorithms or data exploitation, spaces that reflect their values and support genuine connection.

Our goal is to make the open social web accessible to everyone, providing powerful tools without technical complexity.

What does the Newsmast Foundation do?

We help organisations build digital community by:

Building safe, independent and affordable apps with built-in open-source social media, allowing people to nurture ethical online community spaces
Creating educational content that demystifies alternatives to Big Tech on the open social web

What is the Newsmast Foundation?

The Newsmast Foundation is a UK registered charity (1205953), building and advocating for an open, ethical social media ecosystem. Our work is guided by three interlinked pillars:

Technology – developing affordable, independent, no-code tools
Advocacy – promoting awareness of the open social web as a public good
Empowerment – helping organisations and communities own their networks and data

Our mission is to demonstrate that an open-source, independent model of social media is not only viable, but better for society.

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!

Pixelfed

Introduction

Photo sharing the way it should be. Pixelfed lets your casual shots and creative photography find their audience naturally, without algorithmic barriers. Join millions of people sharing across the fediverse.

Official Documentation

Documentation for Pixelfed can be found on the Pixelfed documentation website.

Pixelfed mobile app

Share your photography with a community that values creativity, authenticity, and privacy. Pixelfed is the ethical alternative to traditional social media platforms, putting you in control of your content and data.

pixelfed.social

A fresh take on photo sharing. Get inspired with beautiful photos captured by people around the world.

Ad-free and privacy friendly
Open source and decentralized
Chronological feeds

Features

A few of our most popular features.

Albums: Share multiple photos to create an album post
Comments: Express yourself with threaded comments
Direct Messages: Engage in private conversations with DMs
Filters: Apply that perfect filter to your photos
Likes: Show your appreciation by giving that post a like
Stories: Share an ephemeral moment that disappears after 24h

social.coop

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.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

Reach readers using open web technologies: browser, RSS, and ActivityPub.

Write.as Pro

Write.as Pro includes everything we offer on the platform, plus perks like early access to new features and our friendly human support.

Custom domains

Brand your site with your own domain name.

Three or more blogs

Publish to multiple lightweight blogs / identities under a single account.

Custom themes

Make your writing space fit your personality, starting from scratch or from our showcase of themes.

Privacy settings

Join our community on Read Write.as, password-protect your blogs, or keep them completely private.

Format control

Design your site as a novel, notebook, or in the classic blog format.

Newsletters

Start a newsletter people can read from their inbox.

Static pages

Add permanent pages to your site.

Photo hosting

Add visuals to your words with simple, integrated photo hosting from Snap.as.

More publishing options

Publish via email or our command-line app, and get a discount on our desktop app.

Discounts for longer subscriptions

Get a discount for subscribing for one or five years at a time.

Team support

Reach our friendly team of humans via email during business hours.

ActivityPub on FediForum Connect

AltStore PAL

The world’s first federated app store

Discover New Apps

Self-Published Apps

Federated Apps

Demo

Bandwagon

bandwagon.fm

Bonfire

Bonfire

Features

Content, Feeds & Discussions

People & Privacy

Customisation

Federation, Interoperability & Data Portability

Work in progress / up next

Future goals

Tech stack

Extension architecture

Relevant links

Bounce

Which networks are supported?

What gets migrated, exactly?

How does it work?

Bridgy Fed

Emissary

Fedica

Unparalleled publishing

Demo

Customer quotes

Platform-Specific Services

Mastodon Services

Publishing:

Analytics:

Community Management:

Pixelfed Services

Publishing:

Analytics:

Community Analysis:

Bluesky Services

Publishing:

Analytics:

Community Tools:

Crossposting & Multi-Platform Publishing:

Peertube

Publishing:

FediHost

Tutorials & Blog

Manage Multiple Services

Features

Custom Hosting

Features and Benefits

Fully-managed Mastodon service

All-in-One Managed Service

Single Service

Ghost

Fiercely independent, professional publishing

ghost.org

Turn your audience into a business

Complete control over your website and branding

Publish by web & email newsletter

Rich media & dynamic cards

Newsletters built-in

Transform those clicks into contacts

Manage your memberships.

Native analytics

Offers & promotions

Works with everything

Loops

All the fun of short-form video, none of the corporate control.

Loops mobile app

loops.video

Loops was built on a simple but radical idea: short-form video should serve people, not exploit them.

Our Mission

Why Loops Matters

Masto.host

Mastodon

Mastodon mobile app

mastodon.social