The future of social networks is bright, provided People remain in control of the realm

The Fediverse is an ecosystem of software, apps and tools built on top of a decentralized protocol called ActivityPub, it comes in many shape and forms and the ecosystem is evolving every day.

This page is opinionated, this is my selection of tools after a few years on the fedi, other people will have different opinions based on their usage, this is the result of my experience since 2016.

This page is a work in progress, I will update it with more software I tested and other interesting tidbits related to how the Fediverse is evolving.

Micro.blog

this blog runs on micro.blog and also support ActivityPub, hence Mastodon, it’s an amazing way to enter the fediverse and the indieweb !

Calckey

I’m testing Calckey at https://calckey.social/@rmdes and I’m selfhosting a Calckey instance for IRL friends too

Mastodon Top Tools & Must Try

If you’re just joining : pick Calckey to enter the fediverse

it’s the nicest UI and comes with great native (PWA) experience, both on desktop & mobile

Tools

• https://fediview.com/

access the content of your mastodon feed sorted by different algorithmic views

• https://followgraph.vercel.app/

follow graph explorer

• https://github.com/mauforonda/mastodon_digest

interesting tool to create mastodon digest

• Graze https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/graze/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/graze-for-mastodon/epocinhmkcnjfjobnglchpbncndobblj

Handy extension to make interacting on mastodon easier ! Mastodon List Manager https://www.mastodonlistmanager.org/main

Clients

• https://elk.zone/

best desktop client

• https://mastodeck.com/

cool tweetdeck like tool

• https://indiepass.app/

interesting tool that merge indieweb and fedi

• Flipboard

Flipboard is embracing both bluesky & mastodon & news, its an interesting take!

Apps

https://tapbots.com/ivory/

king client for iOs

• https://tooot.app/

nice app

• https://indiepass.app/

consume all kinds of feeds, not just fedi

• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.joinmastodon.android.moshinda

nices client for android

• https://fedilab.app/

advanced features client for android

Pixelfed

Instagram like alternative with an amazing UI and smooth mobile apps

Zap

Briefly tested it, it’s interesting single-user approach to participating in the fedi with a low-impact/costs server

Bonefire

https://bonfirenetworks.org/