Decentralized social media powered by Mastodon
A gateway to the global fediverse for the Boing crowd and anyone who knows them.
The fediverse is a world-wide conversation between people spread around in different groups. It's as if Twitter let you follow people on Facebook or you could friend a Linked-In user with your Instagram account.
Those companies are closed data-hoarders. Walled-gardens designed to hook you, and trap you, and profile you, and sell you to advertisers.
The fediverse isn't like that. It's open. It's distributed. It's interoperable. It isn't owned by mega-corporations nor is it in debt to venture capitalists.
It also has moderation systems to make everyone play nice.
Boing.world is a node in the fediverse. A bit like Twitter, only just for us, and yet federated to all the others little groups like that in the rest of the world so we can all follow and chat to each other too.
Why is that better than Facebook or whatever?
To be here you gotta know someone who's already here, have come to the Boing World event, or have been in the legendary before-place, of which little is spoken.
If you don't know anyone here, there are plenty of other servers in the fediverse so you can follow our user's public posts from there.
You can, later, if you want. Apps are available. But that's advanced-level stuff.
For now, just use the web-site. Even on your phone. It's fine. It makes it harder to spy on you. You should really prefer that by default.
Adam wrote a long Click-By-Click guide if you need a very close hand-holding. But it's not hard! Promise!
Our Code Of Conduct is simple and readable and you should look it over and certainly agree to it. It's basically just promising not to be a dick.