Pediverse

Representation of the wider Fediverse as a tree (late 2022)

The Pediverse (a portmanteau of "pedophile" and "universe", referring to the widely-used term "Fediverse") is an ensemble of federated (i.e. interconnected) servers that are used by pedophiles, hebephiles, other MAPs and allies for web publishing (i.e. social networking, microblogging, blogging, or websites) and file hosting.

While independently hosted, profiles on these servers can communicate with each other, although one server owner may freely decide to block other servers, or promote particular servers to their userbase. On different servers (technically instances), pediverse users can create profiles on what are typically open-source social media platforms modeled on popular socials such as Twitter. These profiles are able to communicate over the boundaries of the instances because the software running on the servers supports one or more communication protocols that follow an open standard.

As an identity on the pediverse, users are able to post text and other media, or to follow posts by other identities. In some cases, users can show or share data (video, audio, text, and other files) publicly or to a selected group of identities, and allow other identities to edit other users' data (such as a calendar or an address book).

Pediverse players

MAPs have been proactive in setting up federated/decentralized communication platforms, because of well-founded fears centering on censorship and harassment, mental health and validity policing.

Social

These are the better-known social instances, all of which permit communication with one another, and prohibit CP sharing and other illegal activity. Some of them host other platforms, such as decentralized video sharing (Peertube).

NNIA.space

Nnia.space, created May 2020. Runs on Mastodon. Anti-contact predominates, due to restrictions on contact debate/discourse.

Freak.university

Similar to NNIA (runs on Mastodon), with less restrictions on discourse. According to them, their userbase "includes paraphiles, the mentally ill, queer folk, transX folk, and people with any other non-normative or heavily stigmatized identity."

Youjo.love

An invite-only instance that runs on Pleroma, and hosts some better-known members of our community. Pro-c predominates.

Lolison.top

Runs on Pleroma, membership by application.

Real-time chat

Numerous servers host Matrix accounts and promote lists of rooms with varing degrees of openness to MAPs. Yesmap.net (funded by us) is one such example, promoting an activist workgroup called PCMA, which links up with various others. Other servers are anontier.nl and midov.pl, and these permit sharing of lolicon type manga, unlike Yesmap.