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2024-12-19 12:30:04

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

What has been going wrong in Fediverse development from a non-Mastodon POV for years; CW: Fediverse meta

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2024-12-19 12:35:36

CartyBoston

CartyBoston@mastodon.roundpond.net

What has been going wrong in Fediverse development from a non-Mastodon POV for years; CW: Fediverse meta

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2024-12-19 12:49:15

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@CartyBoston I guess people who only know Mastodon see this differently from people who actively use something in the Fediverse that is not Mastodon.

The difference is:

If you "implement ActivityPub", it will work with, for example, Mastodon and its forks, Pleroma and its forks, Misskey and its forks, GoToSocial, Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams). As long as they have a reasonable ActivityPub implementation itself.

If you "implement Mastodon", it's only guaranteed to work with Mastodon.

It may or may not work with Mastodon forks, Pleroma and its forks, Misskey and its forks, GoToSocial and Friendica. If it doesn't, it never will because the non-Mastodon Fediverse is not officially supported. In fact, the devs may not even know that there's something in the Fediverse that's federated with Mastodon, but that isn't Mastodon.

It will most likely not work with Hubzilla, which is what I use, and (streams). They, too, are federated with Mastodon, by the way.

But this is the way a whole lot of things in or for the Fediverse are developed.

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