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2024-09-04 14:38:23

Newsmast Foundation via Connected Places

newsmast@newsmast.social

"For Fediverse 2.0 to be a meaningful hub, pulling different platforms and protocols together, we can’t just be providing plumbing for Meta and Google. Going beyond a debate about people vs protocols, we need to add in a third “p” that’s definitely not plumbing: politics."

Going beyond recent migration and into the future, take a look at what @michael thinks the next steps are: https://www.blog-pat.ch/brazil-bluesky-fediverse/

#Blog #Fediverse #Mastodon #Bluesky #SocialMedia

2024-09-04 14:48:40

Nicole Parsons

Npars01@mstdn.social

@newsmast @michael

Threads & Bluesky want to subsume the entire Fediverse and convert it into a money-making version of Twitter.

2024-09-04 15:41:29

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Newsmast @Michael Foster Okay. So Fediverse 1.0 was allegedly Mastodon, only Mastodon and nothing but Mastodon.

Fediverse 2.0 is entirely commercial, corporate and mostly centralised silos: Flipboard, WordPress, Ghost, Threads.

Which iteration of the Fediverse will finally acknowledge the existence of Friendica which is five and a half years older than Mastodon, and which federated with Mastodon the very instance that Mastodon was launched?

The existence of Hubzilla which is still ten months older than Mastodon, which also federated with Mastodon when the latter was launched, and which was actually the first Fediverse project to introduce ActivityPub, two months before Mastodon?

Pleroma? Akkoma? Misskey? Firefish? Iceshrimp? Sharkey? Catodon? Mitra? Socialhome? GoToSocial? Lemmy? /kbin? Mbin? PieFed? Sublinks? Pixelfed? Funkwhale? Castopod? PeerTube? Owncast? Mobilizon? Gancio? BookWyrm? Inventaire? And all the others?

Mastodon's current "market share" in the free, decentralised Fediverse is some 70%. Not 100%. Even though the Fediverse feels like 100% Mastodon when you're on Mastodon. But it isn't.

At no point in the history of the Fediverse has it ever been only Mastodon. @Evan Prodromou, whom the blog post mentions, can confirm that. After all, it was him who invented the Fediverse. Twice as long ago as Rochko invented Mastodon.

By the way: If the Fediverse was only Mastodon, you couldn't read this.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse