Fediverse and FOSS Migration Help Links

What is this can I please have a video?? (<- Yes, here.)

First,

Overcoming Obstacles

TOO MANY PASSWORDS Login accounts are part of using the internet, but we can organize our necessities, and make use easier, without sacrificing privacy.

Managing Accounts and Passwords

• https://itsfoss.com/open-source-password-managers/

How to export passwords from browser

• https://davescomputertips.com/how-to-export-saved-passwords-from-browsers/

Technically SpeakingHere's the wikipedia writeup, with all it's useful sublinks. Remember your grain of salt along, of course.

How to Join the Fediverse

• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/how-make-mastodon-account-and-join-fediverse

• https://fedi.tips/

• https://joinfediverse.wiki/Main_Page

• https://fediverse.party/

• https://joinmastodon.org/covenant

• https://sepiasearch.org/search?search=join+fediverse

Servers

You're going to need at least one, but feel free to compartmentalize once you get comfortable.

• fediverse.party has a long, neat list
• joinfediverse.wiki
• jointhefediverse.net is FAQ and link-heavy in dark-mode.
• fediverse.to/ is somewhat exhaustive and very sortable.
• mastodonservers.net/servers is tag sortable
• Instances.SocialD has a WIZAR

Maybe not this one. Included for citation.

• https:// .. jointhefedi .. .com/

How do I use this on my device/OS besides accessing the web app through an internet browser?

• https://joinfediverse.wiki/Apps

Some direct links to other useful fediverse services

(intro websites generally contain a more exhaustive software/services list)

**Search Peertube

• https://sepiasearch.org/

Friendica and Movim for Social Profile Pages

• https://fediverse.party/en/friendica/

• https://join.movim.eu/

BookWyrm: Social Reading and Reviewing

• https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/

Lemmy (social link/content aggregator)

• https://join-lemmy.org/

Get chatting again with XMPP (familiar features; no spying bloatware)

• https://xmpp.org/getting-started/

It's all so much. Folks need space to get the picture. How to get all this organized? How will your friends find all your handles on these separate services?

• Make some space. For yourself. For free. https://neocities.org/

• https://lifehacker.com/relive-the-internet-of-the-90s-with-neocities-1850540482

• https://www.w3docs.com/learn-html/html-form-templates.html

• https://dev.to/templatesjungle/100-free-html-css-website-templates-5d6h

• https://uiverse.io/

Searching and Finding

• https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/13-alternative-search-engines-that-find-what-google-cant/

• Wiby - Search Engine for the Classic Web https://wiby.org/

• https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/search/subs

• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox (consider- multiple dictionaries or encyclopedias, vimeo and peertube, wolfram alpha, wilby, etc)

advanced/intermediate search:

• https://yacy.net/ (run your own; user and contributor modes available)

• https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en (I don't know how much of this still works, so maybe it's just here to remind us of when utilities were available.)

Games

the animal necessity of play is no joke

• https://libregamewiki.org/

• https://flashmuseum.org/

• https://nytimesguild.org/tech/guild-builds/index.html

Protect yourself

• https://flinders.libguides.com/evaluate

• https://library.hunter.cuny.edu/research-toolkit/how-do-i-use-sources/beam-method

• The internet is for people and sometimes adults are appropriately sexual https://mastodonservers ,, .net/servers/nsfw

Please remember to be kind and grateful to all volunteers along this path, from content creators to admins, mods, and developers. We are free and open source because we work together.