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Fediverse
Network of federated social media platforms
Symbol for the Fediverse
The Fediverse (commonly shortened to Fedi)[1][2][3] is a collection of social networking services that can communicate with each other (formally known as federation) using a common protocol. Users of different websites can send and receive status updates, multimediafiles and other data across the network. The term Fediverse is a portmanteau of federation and universe.[4]
The majority of Fediverse platforms are based free and open-source software, and create connections between servers using the ActivityPub protocol. Some software still supports older federation protocols as well, such as OStatus, the Diaspora protocol and Zot. Diaspora* is the only actively developed software project classified under the original definition of Fediverse that does not support ActivityPub.[5][6]