What are the best fediverse alternative to the big sites on the web?

And just to add some more detail to this.

For twitter -> mastodon ... there are alternatives beyond mastodon like akkoma, calckey, misskey, pleroma (where akkoma came from). From what I can tell, akkoma is cool, but mostly used for hosting your own single-user or small user-base server, but not exclusively at all (for instance, the linux kernel developers run their own instance for themselves on akkoma ... Linus Torvalds is there and occasionally posts). Calckey is fun and feature rich but also being actively developed.

For Reddit -> Lemmy, there's also kbin, which is newer, took some inspiration from lemmy, but is fusing microblogging with threaded posts, kinda cool and I'd like to see kbin and lemmy grow together.

Pixelfed seems to be doing well with a committed developer and an app and a newly released feature to import your instagram history.

If you're into blogging (remember blogs!?), there are some options too. Lemmy could be used by just starting a community and allowing only moderators to post (this is recommended in the documentation). Otherwise, writefreely and micro.blog provide some platforms while microblog.pub is an interesting platform that you would have to self-host but, if you have the know how, may be pretty suitable for hacking it to your liking (python + sqlite).

For pc I use moosync to listen to music and on phone I use metro

I was just looking at Matrix, are there community servers like on discord people can join? or is it all private rooms?

It also has a livestreaming option as well. I'm hoping some twitch streamers would consider; but, that's a longshot because they're upset about ad money not actual content. Unless, there is a way to monetize content hosting without ads that's more or less a pipe dream

The sad truth is that Diaspora pretty much refuses to federate with anything other than itself. Some projects have managed to reverse engineer the protocol, but you'd honestly have more luck with Friendica or Hubzilla. Even then, neither of those things are perfectly analogous to Facebook.

@MyopicTopic
> very few people have an entire extended friend group looking to figure out what a decentralized federated Facebook would entail

Indeed. It's a real swiss army knife of a platform, hard to even spec out a replacement. I had a go at that here a few years ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201023210758/https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/public-webspace

I'm sure I wrote out a more developed summary of this as a blog post, but I can't find it right now.

@DaisyLee @deadsuperhero

Came to recommend pixelfed. I have not set up bookwyrm yet, is it good?

Matrix.org takes IRC a step further and is based on federation.

I used to spend a lot of time on IRC back in the day. The only thing stopping me from using now, is I can’t find a decent IRC client for iPad. The big problem was around multitasking. I would say switch over to my mail app to read a message that just came in, and when I would switch back to the IRC app I would find myself disconnected from the server.

I do remember reading about a web based IRC client that would solve that problem. I was going to set it up in my home server, then got busy and forgot its name.