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Fediverse
What if your social media accounts could follow, post, and connect across different platforms—without starting from scratch? That’s the idea behind the Fediverse. In this short explainer, you’ll learn how this growing network of independent, connected apps is challenging the big platforms and changing how online communities work. Watch now to understand how the Fediverse brings flexibility, freedom, and portability to the social web.
What's About
Today’s social media is built around walled gardens. Each platform is its own world, with its own logins, rules, and audiences. If you leave one, you lose everything. This centralized system makes switching hard and sharing across platforms nearly impossible.
The Fediverse offers a new approach. Short for “federated universe,” it describes a collection of independent social apps that can communicate with one another. Using a shared protocol called ActivityPub, these platforms can exchange posts, comments, followers, and more—like states in a federation, each with their own rules but working together through a common system.
This video explains how the Fediverse works in everyday terms. With a single account on one platform, you can follow users across other platforms, interact with posts, and take your identity and followers with you if you switch. The experience becomes more connected and more personal—without needing to rely on a single big tech company.
By showing how independence and connection work hand-in-hand, the video offers a glimpse into what social media could look like when it’s built around people and communities—not algorithms and ads.
The Fediverse offers a new approach. Short for “federated universe,” it describes a collection of independent social apps that can communicate with one another. Using a shared protocol called ActivityPub, these platforms can exchange posts, comments, followers, and more—like states in a federation, each with their own rules but working together through a common system.
This video explains how the Fediverse works in everyday terms. With a single account on one platform, you can follow users across other platforms, interact with posts, and take your identity and followers with you if you switch. The experience becomes more connected and more personal—without needing to rely on a single big tech company.
By showing how independence and connection work hand-in-hand, the video offers a glimpse into what social media could look like when it’s built around people and communities—not algorithms and ads.
What it Matters
The Fediverse shows that social media doesn’t have to be locked into one company’s system. This video uses simple metaphors and real-world logic to explain how decentralized platforms can work together while remaining independent. It helps learners understand a more open and flexible way to connect online—and why it could reshape the future of digital communities.
By the end of this video, you’ll be able to:
- Identify the limitations of today’s centralized social media platforms
- Explain the concept of federation and how it applies to social apps
- Understand how platforms become part of the Fediverse using shared protocols like ActivityPub
- Navigate the basic experience of following, posting, and interacting within the Fediverse
- Recognize the importance of identity portability and the potential impact of major platforms joining the Fediverse.
By the end of this video, you’ll be able to:
- Identify the limitations of today’s centralized social media platforms
- Explain the concept of federation and how it applies to social apps
- Understand how platforms become part of the Fediverse using shared protocols like ActivityPub
- Navigate the basic experience of following, posting, and interacting within the Fediverse
- Recognize the importance of identity portability and the potential impact of major platforms joining the Fediverse.