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The Fediverse Isn't Inevitable (blog.foxxtrot.net)
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With the rise of the Fediverse driven by Elon Musk's continued efforts to make Twitter unpleasant for the majority of people, it has been interesting and exciting to see increased interest in forms of Social Media outside the corporate hegemony dominated by Twitter and Facebook over the last decade.

Truthfully, for a lot of us who had been on Twitter pre-2012 or so, Mastadon, with it's user-curated stream of content, feels more like a return to something that was lost instead of something new. There is an excitement about Mastadon, it's underlying protocol ActivityPub, and the collection of inter-operable apps and servers that make up what we're now calling the Fediverse.

And I'm glad for it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

@dessalines @lemmyreader For people following along on Mastodon, here's the link to the article: https://blog.foxxtrot.net/2023/03/federation-isnt-inevitable.html

From the OP: "With the rise of the Fediverse driven by Elon Musk’s continued efforts to make Twitter unpleasant for the majority of people, it has been interesting and exciting to see increased interest in forms of Social Media outside the corporate hegemony dominated by Twitter and Facebook over the last decade.

"Truthfully, for a lot of us who had been on Twitter pre-2012 or so, Mastadon, with it’s user-curated stream of content, feels more like a return to something that was lost instead of something new. There is an excitement about Mastadon, it’s underlying protocol ActivityPub, and the collection of inter-operable apps and servers that make up what we’re now calling the Fediverse.

"And I’m glad for it."

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