# Keyboard Vagabond

Online community and social media for digital nomads, remote workers, and travel enthusiasts

## About Keyboard Vagabond

We welcome you to this space to connect with others, share information, create memories, and help each other to travel responsibly and considerately as we explore the world.

Here, you are a member, not just a user - We want to create community in this space, being respectful of each other as well as the places we go and the people we see. This space is what we make of it.

Seymour is the official mascot of Keyboard Vagabond and a nomadic otter who always wants to see more! He makes his home wherever he goes and adapts to his new environments. Let our adorable friend guide you through the fediverse and give you a break from the algorithms and attention grabbing of corporate social media. He was lovingly created by nomad and designer Lori Kendall at branddesigncreate.com, Instagram at @branddesigncreate.

## Social media and online communities for digital nomads and travelers

Looking for social media for digital nomads or a remote worker community that isn't driven by ads and algorithms? Keyboard Vagabond is an online community hub built for people who work and travel. Instead of one corporate platform, we connect a suite of federated services, each focused on a different way to connect.

Mastodon handles microblogging and networking, Piefed hosts forums and topic-based discussions, Pixelfed is for sharing photos, Bookwyrm covers book clubs and reviews, and Write Freely supports long-form blogging. All of these services talk to each other through the fediverse, so you can follow, reply, and participate across platforms from one nomad-focused community with no one harvesting or tracking your attention. Learn about our community values, or jump straight to our getting started guide if you are ready to sign up.

### Our Fediverse Services

Mastodon - Microblogging Piefed - Community Forum Pixelfed - Photo Sharing Bookwyrm - Book Reviews Write Freely - Blogging Picsur - Image Hosting

### Detailed Service Information

- Piefed - An alternative to Reddit and similar to and compatible with Lemmy, but with extra features for topics and communities. See more at join-lemmy.org and join.piefed.social.
- Pixelfed - Like old instagram, where you can share your photos, albums, and create stories. See more at pixelfed.org.
- Mastodon - An alternative to twitter. Create your timeline by following users and hashtags. See more at joinmastodon.org.
- Bookwyrm - All about books! Discuss and review books with people across the fediverse. See more at joinbookwyrm.com.
- Write Freely - A minimalist, federated blogging platform. Comment and discuss across the fediverse, such as on mastodon (direct comments aren't available yet, but can be done on Mastodon). See more at writefreely.org.
- Picsur - Like Imgur for image hosting, to use for images in your blogs. You can also use Pixelfed. Contact the admin for Picsur signup, as there's no automated signup process.

Mobile Apps

- Piefed - Piefed has support in Interstellar (cross platform) and experimental support in Voyager (Android), though features like topics and communities are best served on the website.
- Pixelfed, Mastodon - have native mobile apps
- Lemmy - many of your favorite reddit apps can be used with Lemmy

The rest of the applications are accessible on the websites and can be added to your homescreen.
Signing in - you'll search the server that you want to join, such as mastodon.social or mastodon.keyboardvagabond.com, or use the provided default instances.

## What is the Fediverse

The fediverse is a collection of big-tech alternative social media that all communicate with each other using the same protocol, called ActivityPub. This means that not only can different “instances,” such as this community, participate with discussions on other servers, but also with the different applications. You can think of it like email, where people can have accounts with different companies, but can communicate with any other email provider - but on steroids.

You can make a post on Mastodon, tag a community on Lemmy/Piefed and people there can respond. Someone can make a video on PeerTube (Youtube alternative) and discuss on Mastodon. Your Write Freely blog posts will, if you enable it, be visible on Mastodon and people can follow your blog account.

Check out this amazing four minute video by Elena Rossini. You can follow her on Mastodon by searching @_elena@mastodon.social.

## Ready to join?

New to the fediverse? Our getting started guide walks you through signing up on Mastodon, Piefed, Pixelfed, and the rest of Keyboard Vagabond, then customizing your feed to find nomads, travelers, and remote workers.