About FediHood
FediHood is free software for talking with the people around you, by topic. It is part of the fediverse, the open social network that connects Mastodon, PixelFed, PeerTube and more.
Talk with the people around you
FediHood is a social network built around the place where you live. You choose a city and the topics you care about, then read what neighbours are saying and join in.
It stays a normal fediverse app. Your posts can reach Mastodon, PixelFed, Misskey and the rest, and posts from those servers reach you too.
What FediHood adds to the fediverse
Most fediverse apps show you what the people you follow say. FediHood adds a second way in: reading by place. Your followed feeds are still there, next to the ones built around your city.
Feeds by distance
Pick a radius, from a few kilometers to a whole region. The Nearby feed gathers the people inside it, Discover covers the whole instance instead, and both take your topic and language filters.
A map of the conversation
People and posts are grouped by city, region and country on one map. Tap a place to read its timeline or to see who lives there.
Location kept at city level
No GPS and no address. Your location is a city name from an OpenStreetMap search, stored on a coarse grid. For a very small place, the app suggests the larger town nearby, which makes its residents harder to single out. You can keep the small place if you prefer.
Messages the server cannot read
Direct messages are encrypted end to end with the Signal protocol, across instances too. The server carries encrypted data only, and key backups are protected by a passphrase it never sees.
Topics that carry your post
Tag a post with a topic and readers filtering for that topic will find it, even without following you. You can mute the topics you do not care about.
Standard fediverse, standard clients
FediHood speaks ActivityPub, so people on Mastodon, PixelFed and any other server can follow you and reply. A Mastodon compatible API is included, so the usual mobile clients connect as they are.
Why sign up here
Your Mastodon app is not enough
An app can only offer what its server stores. Mastodon servers hold no city, so nearby feeds, the map and city level privacy need an account here, and end to end encrypted messages are not part of the Mastodon API.
And it asks for very little
A handle, a password, a recovery email and your city. No phone number and no real name.
New to the fediverse?
The fediverse is a network of independent servers that exchange posts through a shared protocol, ActivityPub. You sign up on one server and can still follow and talk to people hosted on any other.
You are not locked in. You can move your account to another server and bring your followers along, or delete it at any time.