Where we disagree is that Mastodon (as part of the fediverse) does offer that in the form of a truly interoperable and portable social-media presence. Characterizing Mastodon as a mere Twitter-clone overlooks this strength of the fediverse to be or become any social platform you can imagine. That’s the power of protocols. The fediverse as a whole is a micro-blogging site, as well as for sharing photos, videos, book lists and reading updates, and more. Now, every time Blender posts a new video to PeerTube, it shows up in our Mastodon timeline. From here, we can also “like” the video and compose a reply… … and both the like and the reply seamlessly show up on the page for the video. Pixelfed is another ActivityPub based service that takes the form of a picture-sharing social network. Here’s the home page for Dan Supernault, the lead developer.
https://www.activistpost.com/2023/02/the-breadth-of-the-fediverse.html
https://www.activistpost.com/2023/02/the-breadth-of-the-fediverse.html
Where we disagree is that Mastodon (as part of the fediverse) does offer that in the form of a truly interoperable and portable social-media presence. Characterizing Mastodon as a mere Twitter-clone overlooks this strength of the fediverse to be or become any social platform you can imagine. That’s the power of protocols. The fediverse as a whole is a micro-blogging site, as well as for sharing photos, videos, book lists and reading updates, and more. Now, every time Blender posts a new video to PeerTube, it shows up in our Mastodon timeline. From here, we can also “like” the video and compose a reply… … and both the like and the reply seamlessly show up on the page for the video. Pixelfed is another ActivityPub based service that takes the form of a picture-sharing social network. Here’s the home page for Dan Supernault, the lead developer.
https://www.activistpost.com/2023/02/the-breadth-of-the-fediverse.html
