Today is Global Switch Day for the Fediverse, and to be honest it surprised me after waking up and seeing @dansup@mastodon.social posting about it. ​

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I follow Dan closely due to his work on PixelFed & Loops, amazing platforms that has been in the works, both connecting to the ActivityPub Protocol so you can see the posts by users in places like Mastodon. ​

​As a celebration of the day I thought I'd make an article talking and publish why I think you should Join the Fediverse, call it a quick refresh of my Decentralised Social Media article I did a while back. ​

​What is the Fediverse?​
I could write a long list of what the Fediverse is but instead I'll show you an amazingly short video that explains it instead. ​

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What Software should I join?​
To be honest Mastodon is a great start and introduction in what the Fediverse is, it's just like old twitter and there are plenty of people that stick with the base Instance / Server Mastodon.Social but if you wanted to explore further Software and Instances beyond the default I'd suggest to check out FediDB a database for Software and Instances a great tool to see what's out there. ​

​If you already like certain types of social media maybe you should go for a software similar to what you already use. ​

​Twitter / X | Mastodon​
​Facebook | Friendica​
​Instagram | PixelFed​
​Threads | Mastodon​
​Facebook Messenger | Element (You could also use Signal but that's not decentralized) ​
​WhatsApp | Element (You could also use Signal but that's not decentralized) ​
​TikTok | Loops (Currently in BETA) ​
​YouTube | PeerTube​
​Reddit | Lemmy or Mbin​

​I also made a basic graphic to share to people, here it is. ​So get involved today, take back your control of your social life through switching to the Fediverse today.