Tootfinder is an opt-in global full text search for Mastodon. It indexes all public posts of consenting users and makes them searchable for three months, using the public Mastodon API and a SQLite database. Search is case-insensitive and supports suffixes, NEAR, OR and the prefix -. Users who quit the index have their posts removed after three months.
Lemmy is a decentralized discussion platform for communities. Posts can be upvoted or downvoted and support threaded comments. It consists of interconnected servers and can be self-hosted via Docker or Ansible. It offers apps for iOS, Android, desktop and web and is open source.
StreetPass is a browser extension that helps users find people on Mastodon. Mastodon users verify themselves by adding a custom link to their personal site, and StreetPass adds found links to a StreetPass list while the user browses the web. The project is open source and states that nothing leaves the device and that profile resolution is handled in the browser.
Fediverse.Party is a guide to decentralized, autonomous networks running free open software on servers worldwide. It presents federated platforms including Friendica, Lemmy, Mastodon, PeerTube, Pleroma, Funkwhale, Hubzilla, Misskey, Pixelfed and diaspora. The site states there are no ads and no algorithms.
A browser-based tool that opens ActivityPub posts and profiles in the user's preferred server. Users prepend an ActivityPub link with the service's URL, and links then open on the configured server. It has only been tested with Mastodon instances, and Threads.net does not always work. No sign-up is needed; the server is stored in localStorage.
A page on the JoinPeerTube site for finding PeerTube platforms and creating an account among a list of existing platforms. The list can be filtered by theme, category or language, and is generated from instances.joinpeertube.org.
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Lemmy is a decentralized discussion platform for communities. Posts can be upvoted or downvoted and support threaded comments. It consists of interconnected servers and can be self-hosted via Docker or Ansible. It offers apps for iOS, Android, desktop and web and is open source.
StreetPass is a browser extension that helps users find people on Mastodon. Mastodon users verify themselves by adding a custom link to their personal site, and StreetPass adds found links to a StreetPass list while the user browses the web. The project is open source and states that nothing leaves the device and that profile resolution is handled in the browser.
Fediverse.Party is a guide to decentralized, autonomous networks running free open software on servers worldwide. It presents federated platforms including Friendica, Lemmy, Mastodon, PeerTube, Pleroma, Funkwhale, Hubzilla, Misskey, Pixelfed and diaspora. The site states there are no ads and no algorithms.
A browser-based tool that opens ActivityPub posts and profiles in the user's preferred server. Users prepend an ActivityPub link with the service's URL, and links then open on the configured server. It has only been tested with Mastodon instances, and Threads.net does not always work. No sign-up is needed; the server is stored in localStorage.
A page on the JoinPeerTube site for finding PeerTube platforms and creating an account among a list of existing platforms. The list can be filtered by theme, category or language, and is generated from instances.joinpeertube.org.
MastoMetrics is a free analytics tool for Mastodon accounts. It tracks follower growth over time and shows which posts are most engaging. It works with any number of accounts, requires no email, and asks for no write permissions; only public data is stored.
