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If you're hearing a lot about the fediverse these days, you should know: Mastodon is not the whole fediverse and the fediverse is not simply a Twitter replacement. The fediverse is an entire ecosystem, built on something called ActivityPub. Learn more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/leaving-twitters-walled-garden

November 19, 2022 at 5:09:13 PM

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seriously appreciate this series!

ironic that your webpages don't have a "share on mastodon" button but do have share buttons for two such walled gardens.

will you be adding a button soon?

This was the best explainer I've seen yet. Thanks for putting it out there.

This guy seems to have good info too.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRQQh2uB/

Distributed moderation. Let Clarence Thomas try to declare every instance a public forum, one at a time, when he disagrees with their speech.

I see a lot of people use the word platform to describe Mastodon. I feel like your term of ecosystem is better fitting.

Are y'all planning to move to another instance at any point? I'm seeing a lot of them saying they'll be defederating from mastodon.social soon.

pretty sure a nontrivial number of folks don't even know that Mastodon the instance and Mastodon the service are two different things ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

The Web 2.0 takeover by centralized corporate services have severely stunted people's horizons to the point that things like the fediverse are now fundamentally foreign concepts.