The Federation

Welcome to the new social web

12 Protocols
46 Projects
6,481 Nodes
3,444,991 Users

What is The Federation?

The Federation, or as often called the "Fediverse", refers to a global social network composed of nodes that talk to each other. Each of them is an installation of software which supports one of the federated social web protocols.

These social hubs create a decentralized and federated social network of millions of users all around the globe. This is how the internet was supposed to be.

Nodes list
  • Nodes: 6,481
  • Users: 3,444,991
  • Last 6 months active users: 1,273,417
  • Last month active users: 446,444
  • Posts: 766,136,816
  • Comments: 12,090,008
Disclaimer: These counts do not reflect the whole network due to the opt-in nature of the statistics.

Charts

Nodes
Total users
Active 6 months
Active last month
Local posts
Local comments
Users per node
Active users ratio
User total vs monthly

Projects

Project Nodes Users Website Code
mastodon Mastodon 2,827
joinmastodon.org AGPLv3
matrix|synapse Matrix (Synapse) 1,477
matrix.org Apache 2.0
pleroma Pleroma 628
pleroma.social AGPLv3
peertube PeerTube 357
joinpeertube.org AGPLv3
writefreely Write Freely 221
writefreely.org AGPLv3
diaspora diaspora* 195
diasporafoundation.org AGPLv3
pixelfed PixelFed 128
pixelfed.org AGPLv3
hubzilla Hubzilla 118
hubzilla.org MIT
friendica Friendica 112
friendi.ca AGPLv3
misskey Misskey 93
misskey.xyz AGPLv3
wordpress WordPress 84
wordpress.org GPLv2
prosody Prosody 52
prosody.im MIT
plume Plume 40
joinplu.me AGPLv3
funkwhale Funkwhale 31
funkwhale.audio AGPLv3
 
ActivityRelay 26
git.pleroma.social/pleroma/relay AGPLv3
gnusocial GNU social 22
gnu.io/social AGPLv3
 
microblogpub 11
microblog.pub AGPLv3
zap zap 10
zotlabs.com/zap MIT
socialhome Socialhome 7
socialhome.network AGPLv3
 
mobilizon 5
joinmobilizon.org/en AGPLv3
kibou kibou 3
AGPLv3
 
Prismo 3
gitlab.com/mbajur/prismo AGPLv3
 
gancio 3
gancio.org AGPLv3
 
booth 2
reel2bits reel2bits 2
reel2bits.org MIT
 
ostatus 2
 
unknown 2
 
p3k 2
indieweb.org/p3k
redmatrix redmatrix 1
red red 1
 
pubgate 1
 
Juick 1
Proprietary
 
n/a 1
 
tsundere 1
 
lemmy 1
kroeg kroeg 1
 
epicyon 1
epicyon.net
 
Social Relay 1
github.com/jaywink/social-relay AGPLv3
 
ejabberd 1
 
smithereen 1
 
groundpolis 1
 
read.as 1
read.as AGPLv3
 
moku 1
 
littr 1
speechmore speechmore 1
osada Osada 1
zotlabs.com/osada MIT

Protocols

Protocol Nodes Users
activitypub 4,622
ostatus 3,484
matrix 1,477
diaspora 413
zot 131
dfrn 95
xmpp 55
webmention 19
inbound 15
outbound 15
litepub 3
smtp 1

Be part of our world

Host yourself

You want to install your own node? Awesome! Choose a project and follow an installation guide.

I already have my node!

Yay! Welcome to the crew! To include your node on this website, please go to https://the-federation.info/register/<yournode.tld>. After some seconds, you should see your node added..