Resources for discovery across the open social web/fediverse
from ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world on 31 Mar 22:01
https://lemmy.world/post/27631209

This is a more focused revision of a post I made a few months ago, with an aim to help with discovery across the fediverse.

:::spoiler List of various directory/index-style sites to help find people/communities of interest
Software overview

Finding instances/software-agnostic

Microblog specific

Forum/link aggregator specific

Video/Streaming specific


Searching and Following methods
This will vary across software, and may change as it changes, so take note of when this was written (end of March 2025).

By default, ActivityPub sites don’t know of other, remote sites. Any remote site stuff you’re seeing is because somehow the site your on was made aware of the other’s stuff. Typically this may be that a user learns of a remote site’s stuff in some way and decides to follow from their home site by looking it up via their site’s search then subscribing/following.

All of the above format-specific links I’ve provided above are means of finding some remote sites’ stuff to follow on one’s home site. Below are some additional tools and methods to further help when using some of these different sites.

:::spoiler Microblog Tools and Methods
Tools

Methods

:::spoiler Forum/link aggregator Tools and Methods
Tools

Methods


If you’re aware of other resources, tools, or methods that I’ve not mentioned here, please mention them in the comments! There’s undoubtedly more to add that I’ve not come across.

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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com on 31 Mar 22:07 next collapse

theres the https://lemmy-federate.com/ service where instances can 'pre-subscribe' communities to each other automatically. this allows local noobs to be able to find remote groups by just checking whats available on their 'home' instance.

Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 31 Mar 22:09 next collapse

rglullis@communick.news on 31 Mar 23:45 next collapse

Listen to Bernie:

<img alt="" src="https://communick.news/pictrs/image/a3e3c74b-b5e9-4970-bd42-7e504b314189.webp">

Ulrich@feddit.org on 01 Apr 19:09 collapse

Wouldn’t it be cool if these were built into their respective platforms!?

I think Sepia Search was actually integrated into PeerTube in the last update (7.1)