Fediverse
A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.
Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".
Getting started on Fediverse;
- What is the fediverse?
- Fediverse Platforms
- How to run your own community
So something relatively different is calckey. Not sure you'll like it but you might be curious. Best description I can think of is that it's based on a chiefly japanese platform and is probably the fediverse's closest answer to MySpace. It's still maturing, but I think it has a bright future, especially as an alternative to the excessively dominant Mastodon.
@Bicyclejohn you can check out fediverse.party for the proper software you might like. As mentioned, Friendica is one, writefreely is another, and there is also jointhefediverse.net that has a good comparison list of if you liked "X" then you'll probably like "Y".
Hubzilla: https://hubzilla.org/page/hubzilla/discover
Streams: https://codeberg.org/streams/streams
Friendica: https://friendi.ca/
Possibly Pleroma using Husky, but pleroma is similar to mastodon but with advntages (way lower server requirements, emoji reactions, etc)